This video masterfully deconstructs the illusion of "natural" snacks by exposing the heavy chemical choreography required for industrial consistency. It serves as a sobering reminder that modern food production is often more about chemical engineering than actual cooking.
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Homemade Layโs potato chips ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅAdded:
Let's make the Lay's potato chips from scratch at home. First, we're going to drench the potato field with mancozeb, chlorothalonil, metribuzin, a cocktail of synthetic pesticides and fungicides used in most US conventional potatoes.
Now, it's time to gas them. These potatoes sit in warehouses for months, so we're going to hit them with fog of chlorpropham so they don't sprout while they wait their turn. Meanwhile, we're going to genetically modify soybean, corn, and canola specifically [laughter] to be resistant to glyphosate so we can heavily spray them with a synthetic herbicide. And while we're at it, we're going to spray some on sunflowers to help them dry faster. Now, for our next step, we're going to crush some canola, soybean, sunflowers, and corn. Wash the mash with hexane, a petroleum-derived solvent. Filter, refine, deodorize, and bleach, and that's our blend of vegetable oil. Now, to make them into potato chips, a common industry practice is to add to the oil dimethylpolysiloxane, essentially silicone, so it doesn't bubble too much.
Fry them, top with salt, and that's basically our Lay's potato chips. Send this to your friends who are addicted to Lay's. Let me know, would you eat this crap?
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