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The response from industry is to do yet more processing. They do this already: if emulsifiers damage the microbiome, let's add some probiotics. If the food's too soft, add more gum. If it's too dense in energy, add artificial sweeteners. Their solution to ultra-processing is hyper-processing, also known as reformulation.
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UPF requires the current destructive way of farming and is the only possible output of this system.
The nature of UPF means that the manufacturing process typically cannot allow for concern for the environment or high standards of animal care. It encourages excess consumption of food and necessarily diminishes our knowledge about its origins.
While sugar often gets the blame for health effects, a significant part of the calorific load of UPF is from refined vegetable oils. Vegetable oils have gone from being a very small source of calories to the dominant fuel in the global diet. Palm is the oil we now eat most, and is increasingly well known for its environmental impact.
Since 1970, more than half of all the virgin rainforest in Indonesia has been destroyed for oil palm. Between 2015 and 2018, 130,000 hectares was cleared to grow palm in Indonesia. That's an area roughly the size of Greater London.
For these commodity crops to be profitable, they need to be turned into something, and there are two options (or three, if you count biofuel): 'You can force the crops through a factory-farmed animal to produce meat, or process them into an aggressively marketed UPF.'