> The heuristic that factory processed food is worse still holds.
This is a critical observation, and should be at the top of this entire comment thread.
There's a fetish amongst intelligent people to try to think "logically", but logic is actually a terrible system for analyzing anything in the real world. The argument that "it is possible for a processed food to be good for you, and possible for an unprocessed plant to be deadly" is a totally logical refutation of the idea that "processed food it bad" but nonetheless is completely nonsensical because we don't live in a world of binary.
This is a critical observation, and should be at the top of this entire comment thread.
There's a fetish amongst intelligent people to try to think "logically", but logic is actually a terrible system for analyzing anything in the real world. The argument that "it is possible for a processed food to be good for you, and possible for an unprocessed plant to be deadly" is a totally logical refutation of the idea that "processed food it bad" but nonetheless is completely nonsensical because we don't live in a world of binary.