Comment Re:What is the number of processes... (Score 1) 68
Most people cannot make any of the following at home:
Meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc)
Farming is not making in common parlance. And people have been farming livestock at home for thousands of years, clearly it ain't that hard. A few people round my way have a few chickens and I live in London.
Butter
Yeah you can. You can churn it by hand with a whisk and a lot of effort. If you've ever tried to make whipped cream at home with an electric whisk (this is incredibly easy and common) you should know to not over beat it otherwise it starts to separate into butter and buttermilk.
Cheese
I got a cheese making a while ago. There's not much to it, really. People have been making cheese for millennia. Not ultra processed american cheese of course...
Vegetables
You can grow tiny amounts of vegetables as a houseplant what the fuck are you even talking about.
Fruits
My comment about farming not being making in common parlance still stands. And my comment about being able to grow tiny amounts at home as a houseplant still stands.
Flour
Chuck some grains in a coffee grinder or pound them in a pestle and mortar. Job done. It won't be great, uniform flour. But it will be flour.
Spices
Tea
Coffee
Farming ain't making. You can grow some herbs spices at home easily enough. In fact I've been doing that with herbs (like English Mace) which are not widely sold. If you had fruits straight off a coffee tree you could make coffee, it would just be rather involved
Sugar
https://www.instructables.com/...
You didn't just pwn the scientists with your "common sense" that ultra processed foods don't exist because most people don't have a small holding. Farming isn't processing. Most people can do most of those things with a bit of land or labour.