Would you eat Plastic Food?: "Real" v. "Fake" Diets

Tofurky freaks out there, why are you eating imitation turkey—a type of meat, if you chose not to eat meat in the first place?! Okay, sure, it’s supposed to be more healthy, as says the vegetarians out there, who understand that majority of the turkey and other meat in the United States today is filled with millions of hormones, processed, and genetically modified, making it far from natural. I have never been too fond of Tofurky or turkey, unless it’s Thanksgiving of course; but my diet has definitely changed with the shift in American dietary, and within the food industry.
One item I am guilty of possessing in its “fake” form rather than in its original and more “real” form is more frequently is, cheese. Although cheese may be argued to be a processed food because it is often pasteurized to kill excess bacteria, I have had cheese in so many “fake” overly processed ways then I can think of. The “fake” form of cheese that I have eaten in the past few days is both Keebler cheese sandwich crackers, and Goldfish. Although, some of these products claim to have been “baked with real cheese,” this usually just means a high sodium count, and ingredients of cultured milk and salt enzymes, as stated on the nutritional facts. These two products seem to be more sodium and calories, than nutrition; but not all processed food are unhealthy like these. Both containing 0% vitamin A and C, they both have calcium and iron—I wonder if this is from the acclaimed “real cheese?”
These products are often snacks during a busy day, when one doesn’t have time to slice real cheese on to their crackers, or to eat a full sandwich. But the “real” cheeses are always more enjoyable in my opinion; just as I’m sure turkey is more fulFILLING than tofurky! For more information on the American diet and the harmful ingredieants that you may be eating in packaged food check out this article called 4 Harmful Ingrediants in Packaged Food from Reader’s Digest, enjoy and remember don’t eat plastic, its hard to digest!

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