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BREAKING: Eleven of America's largest food manufacturers are facing lawsuits over their ultra-processed food products.
The companies named include:
Coca-Cola
General Mills
Kraft Heinz
Mars
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Post
Mondelez International
Kellanova
The lawsuits allege that these companies knowingly market and sell ultra-processed foods despite growing scientific evidence linking high consumption to chronic conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression.
Ultra-processed foods now account for an estimated 60% or more of the average American diet.
A growing body of research has also found associations between higher intake of ultra-processed foods and increased risk of several cancers, including:
Colorectal cancer
Breast cancer
Ovarian cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Prostate cancer
Brain cancer
Head and neck cancers
Esophageal cancer
Liver cancer
That’s the comparison?
A human being isn’t an energy cost.
We build relationships.
We create meaning.
We carry trauma, culture, memory.
We love.
AI is being forced into every product, every workflow, every platform.
Meanwhile:
– Food quality drops
– Communities weaken
– Attention spans collapse
– Real connection disappears
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Cutting sourdough while it’s still hot releases steam that’s still setting the crumb (inside of the loaf). You’ll end up with a gummy, compressed texture instead of that airy structure you worked so hard for.
Keep sharing, baking, and learning!
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Comparing AI training to raising a human is wild. Humans aren’t “trained”. We’re shaped by relationships, adversity, empathy, and shared stories.
Intelligence without consciousness, character, and connection is just output.
You can build powerful systems. You can’t code a soul.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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TBHQ - Tertiary Butylhydroquinone
A synthetic antioxidant preservative added to processed foods to prevent oils and fats from becoming rancid, thereby extending shelf life.
Side effects:
High-dose, long-term exposure has been associated in studies with potential cytotoxic, genotoxic, and carcinogenic effects.
Immune System Effects: Some studies suggest it might disrupt immune function and decrease vaccine effectiveness
We are slowly being poisoned through the food industry which drives the medical industry which drives the insurance industry! This is all planned to drive more profits and shareholder value at the cost of human lives.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were once simple:
Milk chocolate
Peanut butter
Now?
The founder's grandson says the brand has been diluted with cheaper junk food ingredients
— turning real peanut butter into a "peanut-like crème."
What used to be two ingredients is now a chemistry project.
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Sprout Cooking retweeted
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were once simple:
Milk chocolate
Peanut butter
Now?
The founder's grandson says the brand has been diluted with cheaper junk food ingredients
— turning real peanut butter into a "peanut-like crème."
What used to be two ingredients is now a chemistry project.
Sprout Cooking retweeted
This is why you can just make them at home with like 5 ingredients🤷🏻♂️
Brad Reese, grandson of the inventor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, calls out The Hershey Co. for “quietly replacing” the ingredients in the candy:
“My grandfather built REESE’S on a simple, enduring architecture: Milk Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Not a flavor idea. Not a marketing construct. A real, tangible product identity that consumers have trusted for a century.
But today, REESE'S identity is being rewritten, not by storytellers, but by formulation decisions that replace Milk Chocolate with compound coatings and Peanut Butter with peanut‑butter‑style crèmes across multiple REESE’S products.”
Sadly everything is becoming lower quality and more expensive. There are a plethora of recipes for any food out there that could be made healthy at home!
Grandson of Reese's founder alleges Hershey has switched to cheaper ingredients - sparking family feud trib.al/0Eu2jj8
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Would you participate in cooking challenges like this?
• Weekly themed challenges (ex: best $10 dinner, best use of an ingredient, best pizza, etc.)
• Submit a dish + short recipe
• Winners chosen by community voting / judges
• Sometimes a small payout, sometimes just recognition
Curious if this sounds fun or not 👀
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Just rebranded from ImperfectStart to Sprout!
Releasing a app soon with the main feature being able to browse recipes like tinder style and personalize any recipe to your taste and preferences. Will be posting more content soon
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How many people just wish they could generate personalized recipes based on what they are feeling like eating that day?
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once u stop fantasizing about an ideal version of urself & start working towards it by setting ur alarm clock earlier, working out, reading & stop procrastinating you'll realise that it was so easy all along. ur ideal self will only ever exist in ur mind until u make the decision