Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

By Sally Fallon This presentation was given at the annual conference of Consumer Health of Canada, March, 2002. Mankind has always processed his food; food processing is an activity that is uniquely human. One type of food processing is cooking. Traditional food processing had two functions: to make food more digestible and to preserve food during times of scarcity. This type of processing resulted in traditional foods like sausage and the old-fashioned meat puddings and haggis. It includes sourdough bread, fermented grain products, cheese and other fermented milk products, pickles, sauerkraut, and beverages–everything from wine and spirits to lacto-fermented soft drinks. In the past, processing was carried out by farmers and artisans such as bread makers, cheese makers, distillers, millers and so forth. This type […] Read More