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Are you doing a semantic word-play thing, or are you genuinely curious about the food supply?

Edit: I see that you're a former lawyer. I'm going to assume it's a semantic word-play thing

It’s not semantics. I’m trying to understand what OP means by “real food,” because I suspect he’s peddling nature woo.[1] Heavily processed food, like sausages and cured meats, have been a basic part of the human diet for millennia.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nature_woo

Then you just answered your own question if sausage is real food... so why are you asking?

But if you want to talk about curing meats, that's a fun topic. The ones my fam makes are way tastier than Jimmy Dean's

I’m trying to figure out the contours of what OP considers “real food.” Because there is no scientific basis for the term.

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