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purplebeetroot wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by !deleted34351 in why human can't eat animal feed? by stagn

'Human' oats are usually enriched with minerals and vitamins that are hard to get from other food sources.

AFAIK in most cases this is just marketing, and not much of an health benefit. Especially knowing they add this white sugar. There's also many places you can get just plain oats. Imagine eating it together with sunflower seeds and apples instead. Gonna taste better, gonna be more healthy too.

Here some health benefits of plain oats: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/oats/

What is it that they add, and in which amount?

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purplebeetroot wrote

Collard greens are rich in calcium and depending what sort buy also cheap. You can grow them yourself too.

Beans are rich in iron and depending what sort you buy cheep. You can also grow them yourself too.

Carrots are rich in vitamin A and depending which sort you get also cheep. You can also grow them yourself.

Good source of folic acid: Beans and sunflowers for example. Also relatively cheep.

You find a cheap source for almost everything.

It's less about poverty then it is about eating habits, addictions, marketing and lack of education. Sure this is also connected to poverty, but it's not like a program to safe the poor or something.

Obviously it's good if an unhealthy died is made more healthy, but it is also so they can continue to sell their industrialized trash that makes us addicted and depending. It's the lesser evil kind of thing if you so will, nothing more.

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lettuceLeafer wrote

Prove ur think poor Americans are as poor as u can get rather than the richest 70 percent of the world without saying ur out of touch.

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stagn OP wrote

Specifying in my case it is difficult to find whole grains "for humans" since whole grain is synonymous with expensive. It's not that it's impossible to find good stuff at affordable prices but is difficult, so i was wondering what would be the consequences of eating animal feed.
Sorry, maybe my initial question was a bit provocative

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stagn OP wrote (edited )

Maybe in some place is different but o live in a remote area so ethnic food stores are not common. So although it is a nonsense the white grains are very cheap and very common, instead cheap whole grains are very rare

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purplebeetroot wrote

We're having this conversation, because I disagree with your reasoning why non-human animal food is an issue for humans. If OP can get non-human animal food that is relatively good in terms of pesticides, then I'd call it safe enough for consumption.

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