{"id":15062,"date":"2015-12-07T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15062"},"modified":"2015-12-07T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:47:15","slug":"when-you-grow-your-food-you-know-your-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15062","title":{"rendered":"When You Grow Your Food&#8211;You Know Your Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2015\/12\/07\/when-you-grow-your-food-you-know-your-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN YOU GROW YOUR FOOD\u2014YOU KNOW YOUR FOOD<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">When did food get so complicated? Not complicated to prepare, of course; it seems like companies delight in creating ever-more-convenient foods for us to enjoy, right out of the package or after a short trip through the microwave. But at what cost does that convenience come? The more simplified the methods of preparation and consumption are, it seems, the more complex our ingredient labels have become. And many of us are starting to question whether or not that\u2019s a price worth paying.<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s why more people are growing their own food.<\/p>\n<h2>PROCESSED FOODS &amp; THEIR INGREDIENTS\u2014MYSTERY AFTER MYSTERY<\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably seen a few lists of the \u201cgrossest\u201d ingredients in processed foods. Maybe you\u2019ve heard about carmine, a red dye created from crushed beetles, or cellulose, which is essentially very, very fine sawdust. Both are quite common in various processed and prepared foods. But these two ingredients, at least, are relatively recognizable and have been used extensively for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re less concerned about the ick factor than we are the simple fact that it can be difficult to know what you\u2019re eating\u2014and that can let more than an icky ingredient or two slip by you. For example, are you familiar with butylated hydroxytoluene? Probably not. But not only is this additive used in jet fuel, rubber, and embalming fluids, it\u2019s also used in foods\u2014as a preservative.<\/p>\n<p>So what? Well, if you do a bit of research on this one very common ingredient, you\u2019ll find that there\u2019s a fair bit of controversy surrounding it. It can be \u201creasonably anticipated\u201d to be a cancer-causing agent in human beings, according to the National Toxicology Program. Its MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) cites its potential to cause liver damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN YOU GROW YOUR FOOD\u2014YOU KNOW YOUR FOOD When did food get so complicated? Not complicated to prepare, of course; it seems like companies delight in creating ever-more-convenient foods for us to enjoy, right out of the package or after a short trip through the microwave. But at what cost does that convenience come? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,10941,1912,8748,654],"class_list":["post-15062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-food-labels","tag-food-production","tag-permaculture-news","tag-processed-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15064,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15062\/revisions\/15064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}