Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry
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Sally Fallon gave her fascinating talk, Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry, at the Deidre Currie Festival in Ann Arbor Michigan on Saturday.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop wrote a great post yesterday covering this talk in great depth.
There’s no point in me repeating what Kelly wrote — she really covered the talk well. So go read her post.
There are just a couple of things from that talk that I wanted to add…
Did you know that egg yolks are the second best source for vitamin D, second only to cod liver oil? So make sure you eat your eggs in the wintertime or if you live in a part of the world without a lot of sun.
Also, Sally said that not all processed food is bad. She said, “This talk is not about the dirty secrets of food processing — it’s about the dirty secrets of the food processing INDUSTRY.” She said cheese is technically a processed food — the first processed food in history. And (raw milk) cheese (from grass-fed cows) is very good for you (hence the name of this blog).
Lastly, my favorite story Sally told was about propylene glycol. Propylene glycol is an additive that they put in foods and cosmetics, including ice cream and toothpaste. It’s what makes ice cream soft.
Sally admitted that she loves to read the tabloids. She said she enjoys them because they are a window on popular culture. (I love them too.)
She then recounted a story she read in the tabloids. A woman who was cheating on her husband poisoned both her husband and lover by feeding them small amounts of propylene glycol. It tasted sweet so they never knew they were eating poison. They both died due to a buildup of crystal in their kidneys.
We have an epidemic of kidney disease in this culture.
Makes you want to run out and buy an ice cream maker! 
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16/09/2008 at 9:19 am Permalink
Propylene Glycol – isn’t that what makes anti-freeze sticky sweet? And pets(and young children) eat it and croak?
EGAD. Hubby will kick the ice cream habit for sure if he knows about this…
16/09/2008 at 2:25 pm Permalink
Wow, Sally Fallen has great skin, those are the kind of things i’m always looking for in WP advocates:), I want to keep my youthful glow aloooooong time and she sure looks like she has hers still! I wonder how old she is?
16/09/2008 at 2:28 pm Permalink
BTW Ann Marie, I’m luving the kefir grains, it took a few batches to get it to start being really sour, I buy about 3.5gallons of raw milk per week and i’m making almost all of it into kefir, i’m an addict! Thanks!
16/09/2008 at 3:15 pm Permalink
Yes propylene glycol is anti-freeze (or a major component of anti-freeze).
16/09/2008 at 3:20 pm Permalink
Maria, I’m glad you’re enjoying your kefir grains. I love kefir, too. I thought it was just OK at first but now I am addicted. I like it as much as plain raw milk.
PS: I took a sip of some pasteurized milk on the plane — it was nasty!
16/09/2008 at 3:20 pm Permalink
PS: Anna, I love your user icon — very cute!
16/09/2008 at 6:31 pm Permalink
Ann Marie,
You caught some great things that I missed, so I linked to this one in mine! Thanks!
Kelly p.s. I’ll get you my other notes soon, first I have to get tomorrow’s post done.