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This year, the global food market revenue stands at around 9.36 trillion US dollars. For comparison, Germany's entire economy is valued at "just" $4.4 trillion. What's more, it's estimated that the figure should continuously increase between 2023 and 2028 by 38.46 percent and reach $12.97 trillion.

But big money brings tough competition, and businesses may try all sorts of tactics to get an edge.

Interested in the practices of this sector, Reddit user Lilyxrx made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What's a secret the food industry doesn't want you to know?" Turns out, many more wanted to know, too. As of now, the post has 4.6K upvotes and 3.5K comments. Here are some of the most interesting ones.

#1

“No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Beekeeper checking in - there is no such thing as organic honey. I do not treat my bees with chemicals, but I have no idea where they get their nectar. A bee can fly up to three miles from a hive to get nectar. It is virtually impossible to guarantee they have not gotten nectar from a chemically treated source.

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Daniel Atkins
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or found a can or cup containing soda. Now that it is winter they visit convenience store trash cans.

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    #2

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The American FDA takes food additive safety claims from corporations at face value. If a corporation has done internal testing and says it’s safe the FDA approves it. In the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc if a corporation wants to get an additive approved, the governments have their own food labs. They will take your testing procedures/results and then do their own testing to see if they think your additives are safe, and then approve or deny accordingly. Same goes for medicines in farm animals. Canada won’t allow BGH (bovine growth hormone) as it shows up in the milk. America gets angry because they can’t sell dairy to Canada and the EU but we have rules banning widespread use of Antibiotics and hormones in farm animals. If you are ever travelling outside of America, pick up some food products off the shelf that look like the American brands and read the ingredients list. It’s probably half as long. I’ll let you work out that obesity epidemic cause for yourselves.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Basically during the 80s, testing was outsourced to the producers of the products being tested. Same thing happened in the pharmaceutical industry. Regan's big push for deregulation at work.

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    We managed to get in touch with the author of the post, and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about it.

    "I own a TikTok account where I repost questions from 'Ask Reddit' and the replies they receive, so I thought I might as well create my own thread," Lilyxrx told Bored Panda about its origins.

    #3

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Five Guys- not really a secret but everything was fresh as could be, we did not have a freezer at all only the fridge. Every morning the burgers were rolled into balls and weighed to make sure all were the same. Bread made fresh from local factories. Potatoes straight from Idaho or Washington. Freshly cut and washed 3 times to remove the starch before being cooked. All veggies were labled by date for freshness. Honestly probably one of the cleanest places ive worked at.

    Also at the register every single person would ask why it was so expensive but proceeded to buy it anyway. As if I could change the price for them.

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    Tammilee Truitt
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's nice to hear this. Used to go occasionally to a store east of Dallas. Was really, really good. Last one I went to southwest of Dallas was awful and dirty. So much salt on everything. It was just a bad store/management. After reading this I'll try it again giving the chance.

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    #4

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets They're making BANK windfall record profits right now under the guise of "inflation" and "supply issues". 

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    Mel Colley
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who and when is this going ti stop? Answer: Not any time soon. Too many powerful people are getting paid!

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    After going through the discussion their post has ignited, the Redditor has noticed that one theme definitely stood out from the rest. "From what I can see, it seems that the food industry is more unsanitary than we think," they said.

    And they're probably right. Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical substances can cause more than 200 different diseases, ranging from diarrhea to cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people – fall ill after eating contaminated food each year, resulting in 420,000 deaths and 33 million healthy life years (DALYs).

    #5

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Chef here. It’s salt and fat. If you have a question about anything it’s salt and fat.

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    #6

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Cows make milk not because they are cows but because they are mothers

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    XenoMurph
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what "cow" means. If she's not a mother she's a hiefer. We have no name for that species in English, so we use the descriptor "cow"

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    However, as we can see from this list, not all parts of the industry are working as they should (and there are plenty of things we regular folks don't know about) even though we all depend on it.

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    Lilyxrx believes that we often end up in the dark because of greedy businessmen and corporations, as industry leaders would rather chase money and cover up their questionable conduct instead of doing everything by the book.

    Sadly, there are plenty of examples that support their words. And we don't need to look that far back to find something. On the night of October 4, Homeland Security and FBI agents teamed up for a raid on Gerber's Poultry in Ohio, United States, and found over two dozen children (mostly said to be from Guatemala) who were illegally employed in meat processing and sanitation.

    Hopefully, with time and effort, the industry becomes more transparent.

    #7

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The reason restaurant food tastes better than what you make at home is probably because it was drowned in butter or oil.

    Also MSG is in nearly everything. Totally safe and delicious. And it definitely isn’t what is giving you a migraine. The fact you ate 4000 calories and 3 times your daily salt intake is probably what gave you the headache.

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    Sue Denham
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The reason restaurant food tastes better than what I make at home is because I didn't have to cook it.

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    #8

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Unless it’s a health conscious food joint you’re eating at, the food we serve is designed for maximum taste. It’s either dense with fat and sugar, or fat and salt . E.g. Those mashed potatoes you like? Made with cream, butter, and salt. The quiche? made on cream, not milk. Etc, etc.

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    Sky Render
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is amazing just how much salt, fat and sugar enhance flavors. Try making a cheese sauce with cornstarch and only a pinch of salt instead of butter and flour and you'll find out really fast just how much of the "cheesy" flavor of that sauce is from the fat and salt in the butter!

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    #9

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets At least up until the pandemic hit, there is a 100% chance that you've eaten at a restaurant where 1 or 2 of the people directly handling your food were legitimately sick enough that they should have stayed home, but they had to come in to work anyway because they couldn't get their shift covered and they can't get a doctor's note without insurance or the money for a copay.

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    Sonja
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the case in Germany. Sick leave is mandatory and allowing sick workers in can get your restaurant closed quickly by the health department. They are very strict and allow anonymous reports. Also sick leave is always paid

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    #10

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Everything on the Mexican menu uses the same ingredients. Just built it different and give it a different name

    Tortillas
    Cheese
    Salsa
    Beans
    Rice
    Meat

    Tacos, burrito, chilaquiles, tostada, chimichanga

    It's all the same thing!

    * written by a Mexican cook

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    #11

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The amount of sugar that goes into costco bakery products is absurd, especially the apple pie. That being said; Costco does not f**k around when it comes to food safety. Every area that is responsible for producing food is most likely cleaner than a white room for producing computer parts. There are virtually zero roaches, we found one in the bakery once and shut it down until the exterminator did his thing that very night. Someone returned a package of dinner rolls because their child had bit into one and a sharp piece of metal was in it, within less than 2 minutes every manager in the building was doing an investigation that led all the way up to the regional manager and his boss for several hours and determined that it had come off of a piece of machinery before it reached our location. We throw away rotisserie chickens if they have left (even for a few minutes) the shelf and someone tries to put it back.

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    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Dragon fruit isn’t an exotic Asian fruit. It’s a cactus fruit, and as such are native to the Americas and can even be grown in the US.

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    #13

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The trick to good fried rice is old rice. It has to dry out for a bit in the fridge.

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    #14

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Many of the cooks making your food are high and/or drunk.

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    Sleestak
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so much a secret to anyone who's spent even the shortest time in the industry. One summer, 3 weeks into a summer job, and I knew everyone

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    #15

    It's not exactly a secret, but it's not common knowledge either.

    Except for infant formula, dates are not an indicator of the product’s safety and are not required by Federal law. Phrases like "Best by [ date ]" or "Sell by" or "Use by" aren't regulated or required, and they are not (outside of baby formula) a statement of safety.

    Manufacturers would rather have you throw out product, wasting it, and buying more, than stockpiling. So they put "best by" or "use by" dates even on non-perishible items like *salt*.

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    MoMcB
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a thing in the UK, as we use shelf life testing to determine the dates. A best before date means exactly that, it tastes best before that date, it can still be perfectly safe to eat. Use by should be stuck to, it's usually on things like meat and dairy. Using modern packaging means that bacterial growth is over safe levels when it passes. I'm a Quality manager for a food company.

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    #16

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets the organic industry is a f*****g scam.

    there are levels to this s**t, and yes, you can purchase food that is grown and/or sourced more ethically than other options, but don't kid yourself. it was most likely still grown on a factory farm, and chemicals were used, etc. etc. just different chemicals.

    and a lot of it comes from china. no s**t.

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    Sonja
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That doesn't count in every country though. In Europe the labels are strictly controlled and it has to fit the criteria that you can read up in the legal regulations.

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    #17

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets I'm a trucker who hauls mostly refrigerated freight. I pick up at a lot of slaughterhouses. You really, really don't want to know what those places are like; let alone the conditions at feedlots or CAFOs.

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    Aaron Parker
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eating meat is not morally wrong. Animal cruelty is morally wrong. Don't think you're so high and mighty that eating meat is beneath you as a species. Anthropologists tell us our brains evolved to be so large specifically after we starting cooking and eating meat. Make no mistake, your cat would have no problem eating your meaty corpse if you suddenly died alone in your apartment and the catnip was gone.

    Lyoness
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To each their own. I agree there's no intrinsic morality associated with eating meat, but I also think we need to respect the choices other people make when it comes to food. I choose to eat meat, my vegetarian friend does not, but we don't shame each other for it. What you put in your stomach is nobody's GD business. Excepts cannibals. Cannibals are bad.

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    day light
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I try my best to stay in line with a low fodmap diet to help with some stomach problems I have. the kind of people that shame you for what you eat (other than other humans) just like sticking their noses in your business to feel better than you. like I'm sorry I eat green bananas and that makes you upset. I like bananas but the riper a banana gets, the higher in fodmaps it gets. I shouldn't have to explain myself, you know?

    Zophra
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure why you're downvoted. I would like to think anyone eating meat would agree with this.

    TRQ
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nOt SuRe WhY yOu'Re DoWnVoTeD.............. Upvote him, then. Have solidarity in being wrong.

    Zophra
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did up vote him in solidarity of having the same opinion.

    moggie63
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I no longer have a cat but I'd be more than happy to know that I was still feeding it after I'd snuffed it. Surely that's taking care to the next level.

    TRQ
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are not raising and "humanely killing" (whatever that is) your meat. You are buying it from slaughterhouses where abuse is rampant. You are directly funding animal abuse. The fact that you went on an unprompted bizarre rant about the ethics of eating meat when nobody asked or accused you of such really just shows that you're insecure about your diet and you know that what you're doing is wrong. Your cat metaphor is useless. Cats are carnivores; Humans are not. Furthermore, brain size has nothing to do with intelligence, as your existence proves. A sperm whale has a brain over 6 times larger than an average human's, do you think whales are also 6 times as intelligent as humans?? I would have a lot more respect for you meat eaters if you just admitted that you enjoy meat and you don't care about the animal cruelty involved in getting it into your mouth. Instead you just embarrass yourself with arguments about the ethics of eating meat that boil down "big brain=big think."

    moggie63
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's assume that everybody in the planet goes vegan. What happens to the animals we currently eat? Do you think they'll be kept as pets? Or exterminated as competition?

    DC
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anthropologists not all say so, this is not an undisputed fact ... but even if, it doesn't justify anything we so modestly allow ourselves to do. Also, as meat can't be made without violence and waste of precious ressources and generally an enormous ecological impact, we can't just state that "Eating meat is not morally wrong. Animal cruelty is morally wrong." Make no mistake, don't kid yourself - there is no meat without animal cruelty. You can have both. You can have none. But cruelty free meat is a delusional concept that takes a lot of effort to make yourself believe, or that needs you to be shut off from information pretty rigidly.

    StrangeOne
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen clips of what happens in a slaughterhouse. It's an animal's Holocaust. I'm not even being funny about that. The animals are still alive being hung upside down, cows throats getting slit wide open with blood gushing everywhere. Animals are screaming. At my previous job, I had to call up some slaughterhouses. Whether it was the receptionist, the manager or whatever higher up they had, speaking to them was unlike any other business. You could hear the suppressed pain and trauma in their voices and they were always reluctant to speak to me because they thought, being in their industry, I wouldn't want to speak to them. If they did, they got irrationally defensive about what they did without being asked. It was weird.

    Starry starry night
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eating meat should come with the understanding that a life has been taken for you to nourish your body and senses. Eat meat, but eat less meat. And buy quality reared and humanely slaughtered animals. Of course if followed this would mean the the average person could hardly ever eat meat as it’s so bloody expensive.

    Lara Verne
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something like that happened in Czech Republic. A few months ago, they find out that employees of one slaughterhouse mistreated animals. As far as I know, the verdict has not yet been given, but they're going to prison.

    Linda Riebel
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you for informing people that America's meat industry is a slaughterhouse that could be a horror movie. Go veg!

    HotSaguaro
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have had friends that judged me for hunting when I was a kid bc it was "animal cruelty" yet they don't like when I ask them how to make sure their steaks were from humanely slaughtered cows. People who grew up in the city typically ignore the sources of their food vs people like me who grew up in rural areas and now the smell of a bust slaughter house

    JaimeeJames WD
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s the people who work at places like the you need to beware of too.

    Claire Kaplan
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of them are just undocumented immigrants who can't get decent work though.

    Theora Fifty-five Johnson
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meatpacking used to be a heavily union industry, now the unions are busted, many workers are undocumented, poorly paid, and often injured. It's just wrong.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's horrific. Animals are stuffed until they're obese so they can sell for more $ per pound. They're strung up and hung to bleed out before they're even dead. The treatment they receive throughout their short lives is just awful. I will never again eat an animal.

    Charles McChristy
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which is exactly why I don't eat meat. Who knows what it's been contaminated with. Usually the cow's own s***.

    Brenda
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've worked at a feedlot and although the conditions do get nasty especially during the summer. It's a double edged sword. You can keep the pens (cement pens) perfectly clean, but they lose their only main source of heat when it gets -60° F in the winter. We cleaned the barns 2 times a year. Early spring, and after harvest. That way the bugs would stay away during the summer and they had time in the fall to build the bedpack. Do I think these conditions are favorable? No.. watching the cattle walk on manure deeper than they are tall looks miserable. But when our country depends on the few people who are generational farmers, because anyone starting out can easily go broke running cattle like that. There's not much you can do.. there's not enough pasture ground to turn them out on, when we need that same land to grown corn and soybeans on to feed those same animals.

    Claire Kaplan
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this highlights something important: animals are not being mistreated because farmers are evil. It's because they literally cannot afford to do it the right way. Internet folks also hate poachers, and that's perfectly reasonable, but sometimes poaching is the only way to feed your family. Or blaming "kill shelters" even though they are regular shelters usually staffed by compassionate people who don't want to see any animals euthanized for space reasons. Many of us are trapped in an unfair system where we're forced to do cruel things just to survive. The solution is not to blame each other, but to come together to try to make things better.

    Claire Kaplan
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Concentrated animal feeding operations. Basically what people usually mean when they say factory farms (which is not an industry term).

    I_imagine_even_worse_w***s
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the country to be fair. Like at the end of the day yes animals are slaughtered there so it's not going to be a bed of roses but from my experience they aren't as bad as you might think. Well here at least.

    Hi
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah. I work at a chicken plant. In US. It's highly regulated on treatment of animals. Half my coworkers are immigrants and well paid. Opposed to what a earlier commenter said. A lot of them own houses and or drive new cars.

    Gypsy Lee
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You really don't. Some of the pig industry is improving but cattle - not even close. Go look at a commercial dairy; that's where your dairy comes from ... eeeww. Now think about how the feedlots and slaughterhouses look; they want them fat and dead. There is a literal mist in the air, and it isn't natural. -Go to a local butcher for your meat, and if they offer it, their dairy as well. -Instead of country bashing how about we take steps to demonstrate what we would prefer? - And yes, the US does supply a lot of food for other places, as do other countries. Nothing that big and commercial, regardless of place of origin, is going to be all flowers and unicorns. Not to mention, ALL meat comes from dead animals, period, so support your local farmers and not corporations. - And anyone that believes their vegan diet doesn't do something similar in terms of mass production for plants.. you need to wake up. And for the love of god, do not consume farm-raised fish from ANY country!

    Karen Philpott
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been through a freezing works (US slaughter house). Very clean. Smells a bit from the dead animals. In NZ we don't have feed lots. Our livestock wander around in paddocks, eating grass, unless they're being fed hay or silage to supplement feed during droughts.

    Debby Keir
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every abattoir in the UK has a resident vet to specifically check animal welfare and humane method of killing. No they're not pleasant places, but if you eat meat (I do) you have to be prepared to accept that involves the death of animals. Just be certain that your local abattoir has high standards.

    David
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i've been to 3 slaughterhouses during an internship with the inspection team.The ones I went to I was very impressed by the cleanliness and quality.

    SM
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definition of murder: "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another:" You should at least get your terms right.

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    Kate
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once had someone tell me, very insistently, that carnivorous animals only learned to kill by watching humans. And they had a bunch of misquoted bible verses as their "proof".

    DC
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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have heard of those things called "Slogans"? This is not a juristicial thesis someone wants to graduate at university with, but just a slogan - and, if you consider the legal definitions on a broader scale - different countries, different wordings - killing to eat meat does fulfil a few of the criteria that qualify a killing as a murder - it's selfish, it's planned and systematically conducted and the benefit that is - or that is thought to be - derived from it is well below the damage it does in numerous ways. "Meat is Murder" does bear some truth to it, it just isn't what the law sees. Are you really THAT special and important that a miniscule, neglegible joy - a mere tastebud sensation, not even being high or something - justifies torture that is 100, 1000 or even more times worse, but suffered by someone who doesn't deserve consideration, like a nig ... oh, wrong century, but the principle stand ... a nonhuman animal? What atrocities have pigs, cows, chicken inflicted on us that makes them deserve .... well, their world of pain, violence, suffering and nothing else?

    Jilly
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m sooo close to going vegetarian and your reply pushed me closer!

    TRQ
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do it. You will be on the right side of history. Save the planet, stop funding animal cruelty, and be healthy and well.

    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work in a sausage factory and I laugh every time Morrisey comes on the stereo.

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    S****y post seriously. I dont want to argue with vegan or pro meat. But that is a s****y post

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    #18

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets The "natural flavors" are just big jugs of glycerin with hyper concentrated flavoring in it. Banana flavoring is fairly flammable.

    Source: Worked in food manufacturing

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm. My degree is in Food Science. Green Apple = actylaldehyde. Butter? That's dyacyl ketone. Dimethyl Sulfide tastes like corn. And yeah I have heard that about banana flavoring but I can't remember the name of it.

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    #19

    When you give back a pack of ketchup to the restaurant because you didn’t use it, they thank you and smile and then they throw it out because you’re probably a weirdo who injected bleach into the ketchup pack.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same with napkins. If you grab a huge pile of napkins and leave them all in a neat pile on your table, they get thrown away. It’s a safety and hygiene thing. Take just what you need.

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    #20

    I used to work in a sliced bread factory. The amount of bread that gets thrown in the trash for being just a little overcooked after a mechanical failure is astonishing. I always thought they should give it to homeless shelters something like that

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    Russell Rieckenberg
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the food factories where I worked, food waste was sold to pig farms, but maybe pig farms don't want bread.

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    #21

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets A lot of the processed cheese and cream cheese is all the same recipe we just switch the labels and packaging for the different brands we run. Source: I work in a cheese factory in a company that services 75% of America's domestic market

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This goes for a lot of products. The same thing goes into the store brand box as goes into the name brand box.

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    #22

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets King crab and Maine lobster prices that restaurants pay are cheaper than they have been since even before the pandemic, yet we still charge more than ever before

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prices are based on "what the market will bear", if people think everything should be costing more because of inflation, then the restaurants will certainly take advantage of this and charge more.

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    #23

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Pringles (and baked Lays/similar) are made of rehydrated and compressed rejected/excess parts of potatoes that go into regular chips. I learned that from my dietician at work and thought that was odd. I still like them over regular chips.

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    #24

    the inside of ice machines are covered in mold unless cleaned regularly. in the many different restaurants I worked in, exactly 1 cleaned the inside of their ice machine on a regular basis.

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    Bottle Opener
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "SLIME in the ice machine!" -Marvin Zindler, Eye Witness News (Houston, Texas in the '80s.)

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    #25

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Well - I work at Dominos, and we are kept afloat by the people who don't coupon and pay full menu price. You people are the unsung heroes of labor.

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    #26

    That all vodka is nothing more than pure grain alcohol cut to proof with water. Source: was lab tech in an alcohol plant. We made everything from Walgreens vodka to Smirnoff vodka. The only difference was the bottle and label.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Largely agreed. There are premium vodkas that somehow create flavor with the U.S. required 5 times distillation. Those are great for shots and sips. But if you're mixing in a Bloody Mary, Screwdriver, Martini (especially if it's dirty), you're wasting your money on a premium. Don't go plastic bottle rock bottom, but save your money for something else.

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    #27

    Diet, not exercise, is the main factor in determining weight gain/loss

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The body is extremely efficient, it requires a LOT of exercise to burn of even a modest number of calories. On the other hand, exercise is needed for all around good health.

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    #28

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets Buffalo wings are not made of buffalo, they're made of chicken.

    Buffalo don't even have wings.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe they are called Buffalo Wings because they were first popularized in Buffalo, New York.

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    #30

    The secret is that they can tell us all their secrets and we still eat it because we are lazy, short-term-thinking f***s.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe because not every one has the space, money or other resources to do something about it.

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    #31

    When you order "Shrimp fried rice" there isn't actually a shrimp frying the rice.

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    #32

    Subway- if it’s 12 inches or 11 inches, you’re getting the same amount of bread. Sometimes we’re just too lazy to stretch the bread

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    #33

    Alot of cooking is just the reheating of prep and Chef Mike (the microwave) gets used alot more than you think.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    for UK readers this is just like"wetherspoons"....the steaks are fresh cooked though but mostly everything thing is pinged

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    #34

    The reason orange juice tastes consistently the same year round, even though it's a crop harvested once a year, is because citrus oils and citrus flavor are added back to different batches and blended all together. Similar to how whiskey is blended from multiple barrels to make it consistent.

    The difference is that even though extra stuff is added back into the OJ, it doesn't need to be labeled because the flavors contain all ingredients from oranges (FTNF-from the named fruit) so the FDA doesn't mandate labeling additional ingredients.

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    #35

    Olive Garden makes all their necessary pastas for the whole day from 8-10am every morning. Partially cooked. So when an order comes through, they grab a serving of the needed pasta style and flash cook them in hot water. Also, it’s just the brand, Barilla.

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    #36

    Ooh I got one. Lots of manufacturing places nowadays are trying to push for "less than daily" sanitation. You heard that right. They want to use these machines all day long, not clean them overnight, and start up like normal the next day.

    Currently working in a place that just started this practice. USDA is on board with it, they only care that the product tests well for culture counts before it's shipped off.

    So when you have stuff in your fridge and it seems to expire faster than it used to it's probably because you got some 2 day old room temperature product mixed in with the fresh stuff.

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    Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only places I've worked that do this are wineries. Wine is a very inherently antimicrobial product so you can get away with running the same equipment without a clean. Especially since the next run is only about four hours out.

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    #37

    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets When I worked at a mass production bakery the chocolate for the chocolate covered doughnuts came in giant frozen blocks of 4x4 peices and contained no actual chocolate what so over. When unfrozen it was like some sort of nasty smelling paraffin wax that I would break up with a hammer and place into a melter that would then pour over the doughnuts.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not allowed to call it chocolate in the UK, it's a chocolate flavour coating.

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    #38

    Farm animals lead absolutely terrible lives.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are exceptions- my chickens run free outside in the country and are only locked up at night for their own protection. They give me eggs and I give them food-- they are not food-- they are never butchered.

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    #39

    most meat you buy in stores is packed with water and additives that add taste so you won't notice that it's all water. most meat shrinks when you fry it, the more shrinkage the more water was in the product in the beginning.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't think this is true in Europe... We have regulations and rules about water content in meat and additives.

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    “No Such Thing As Organic Honey”: 50 People Share Food Industry Secrets You technically can't get addicted to sugar, but sugar dependence is very real and can give you similar withdrawal symptoms to caffiene withdrawal. Your brain gets dopamine when you eat sugar, which means that most companies put as much sugar in their products as they can get away with so you feel good by eating them.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans can get addicted to almost anything. There is chemical addiction where the chemical adds to the addiction, but that isn't to say that an addiction without that is easy to break the habit.

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    #41

    Fancy restaurants' regular food tastes so good because it's DROWNED in butter and MSG. I dishwashed at a fancy seafood/steakhouse on the water and an average serving of asparagus had about a quarter stick of butter in it. People always asked what their "trick" with the asparagus was.

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    I was a young lad working at Church's Fried Chicken during the summer, many years ago. The owner refused to throw out chicken that had already gone bad; to the point where you'd gag if you smell them. Apparently if you batter them bad boys up and deep fry them, the rancid smell goes away. His customers never knew they were eating spoiled chicken.

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    #43

    Had a lady tell me that she doesn’t eat ketchup. When I asked her why she said that she was once the safety manager at a Heinz factory. Her job was to test for contamination of the batches. She said an alarm would go off when the levels got too high, and she would have to go and test the batch with a test strip. She said that no matter what the strip showed she would turn off the alarm and tell them to continue. She said she watched all kinds of s**t go in the batch. Spiders, bugs, etc.

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    Russell Rieckenberg
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has nothing to do with ketchup per se. There's no way you can avoid eating bugs or such things as mouse/rat hair. Doesn't matter where you get your food or ingredients. That's a simple fact of life.

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    #44

    That fancy dessert you bought at an expensive sitdown place was purchased frozen, warmed up, and sprinkled with chocolate to make it look like they made it themselves.

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    #45

    Your local health dept is probably overworked and understaffed. You should take an active role in evaluating if the restaurant is up to your standards.

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    Birgit Sommer
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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excuse me, I need to see your kitchen, freezers, pantry and storage before being seated.

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    #47

    The apples you are buying from the produce department are anywhere from 9-14 months old.

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    #48

    Organic means nothing. Same with all natural. They are marketing terms.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Legislation in Australia says otherwise. Legally mandated standards that are government enforced.

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    #49

    Castorium is from a beaver's b******e, and it is used to make artificial raspberry flavor. (ETA) It can also used for strawberry and vanilla

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It isn't, technically, the beaver's b******e. It's the beaver's scent gland which is located near the beaver's b******e. If anyone's ever had a dog that needed its a**l glands expressed at the vet - same thing. No less gross, though.

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    #50

    Every packaged and processed item you purchase is actively being worked on to be made cheaper, less nutritious or less flavorful. It’s the curse of “continuous improvement”. All it’s doing is making what once was a decent quality food item way worse for you and more expensive.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is stupid. Manufacturers do try to make products cheaper to produce, yes, but no one is "actively" working to make foods less nutritious and flavourful (except in edge cases perhaps such as making some strongly flavoured products milder to appeal to a wither consumer base). Where that happens, it's a side-effect of trying to achieve product efficiencies. Which leaves us with the claim that making a product cheaper makes it more expensive. Which is nonsense.

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