> very processed foods

That's not really accurate though. Half the point of heavily-processed foods is that they can use non-aesthetic parts of the animal or plant to produce edible food.

- Mechanically-processed chicken is made out of the parts of a chicken that you could never sell as beautiful chicken breasts

- Baby carrots are carrots that are too ugly to sell

- Fillers like corn syrup and soybean oil are calorically incredibly cheap to produce, and very efficient use of cropland.

More accurately, it's organic and locally-grown foods that waste the most cropland by being low-density (and are thus more expensive).