The RAW people are a trip.
Feed what you want.
Eat what you want.
I’m HAPPY for you if you are happy.
Honest.
But PLEASE, don’t try to swing words around that you clearly don’t understand the meaning of.
Words like “extrude”.
Do you know what extrude means?
Every strand of spaghetti you have ever eaten was extruded, as was every sausage link and salami.
You extrude your toothpaste every morning, and the capsules of medicine you take every morning are probably extruded too.
Got a heart stent? It was extruded.
Plastics are extruded, as are meats, pasta, concrete, metal, candy, window panes, and aluminum cans.
Everything made with a 3-D printer is extruded, as is cereal, cookies, and pretzels.
You eat 4-5 extruded foods a day, from bagels to pizzas, from tortellini to chewing gum, from hamburgers to fruit rollups.
Extrusion simply means to squeeze something through a shaped opening.
It’s a purely mechanical process to make a shape, and nothing more.
Does extrusion have benefits?
Oh sure.
Extrusion in the food industry makes products more uniform and easier to package, it reduces waste and increases consistency, it generally improves texture and digestibility, and it increases shelf life.
But, in the end, it’s just a mechanical process. It’s not a bad thing.
My concern is if you don’t know what a simple word like “extrude” means, I have to wonder what else you don’t understand.
Do you know the difference between Salmonella and Sal Mineo?
Do you know the difference between Listeria and Liszt Fever?
Do you know the difference between E. Coli and Pee Cola?
If I told you that the World Health Organization says di-hydrogen monoxide kills 400,000 people a year, and yet commercial dog food is 10-12 percent di-hydrogen monoxide, would you freak out?
Do you know the difference between a thespian and a lesbian? A homosapien, a homosexual, a homophobe and a hominem?
Are you worried about “chemicals,” but don’t know that everything — literally everything — is chemicals?
If I told you Alaska has a population of 742,000, and the US has a population of 345 million, and that Alaska settled a drug pricing case with Pfizer for $20 million, could you tell me what Pfizer could expect to pay across the nation, assuming an equitable settlement based on rectangular distribution and consumption of the drug?
Do you know what a numerator is? Do you know what a denominator is?
Can you tell me what an R-square might tell you, and how it differs from what a Punnett square might tell you?
Do you know the internal temperature meat has to reach in order to kill E. Coli, Listeria, and Salmonella? Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of people a year die from foodborne diseases globally — most of them from E. Coli, Salmonella, and Listeria? Do you know the same numbers for the US?
Do you know how many RAW dog food companies there are?
Do you know how many kibble manufacturers there are?
Do you know how many millions of pounds of dog food are made every year in the US and Canada?
If I told you there were 44 pet food recalls in the last 5 years, and that 20 were kibble manufacturers, and 11 were commercial RAW manufacturers, how would you start thinking about that data? Would you use denominators and numerators in your analysis? Would you ask for information about the cause and scale of each recall? Would you use denominators and numerators in your analysis? Would you notice that I left off 13 recalls? Would you ask what they were? If I told you 6 were canned foods, 3 were frozen foods, and 4 were “treats,” what would you make of that data vis-a-vis the total market?
Some of you are already knocking answers out of the ball park. Great.
But if you don’t know what “extrude” means — and you have been too lazy to go to a dictionary all this time — I can’t help you.
Willful ignorance is untreatable.
The good news is that the home cure for simple ignorance is in everybody’s hand, right now, as they read this. And it’s absolutely FREE.
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