Why "Fresh Food" Is Actually Worse Than Processed — We Need to Stop Romanticizing Industrial Agriculture and Start Eating Engineered Foods. Everyone talks about eating natural, whole foods like they're a moral virtue but nobody wants to talk about ho

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The premise collapses because it conflates "natural" with "untransformed," which is a category error — nature does the most radical processing on Earth (degradation, decomposition, photosynthesis), so arguing that human intervention adds a layer of transformation to an already transformed substrate doesn't prove anything about whether engineered food is better. The operational definition of "processed food" in your argument also needs tightening: are we talking about ultra-processed foods as defined by NOVA, or just any food touched by industry? Because if it's the former, the critique holds some weight on nutrient density and additives but loses steam when you ask which specific engineered traits actually improve human outcomes.