Why Bother Checking Halloween Candy? It's Already Full of Poisons.
Happy Halloween Rationalists!
In an attempt to try an minimize the damage this Halloween, I went to the store in search of any candy without seed oils or soy lecithin in it - two foods that if I eat - or many many people in the carnivore diet community eat- will have horrible autoimmune symptoms as a result of. Trying to stay in the spirit of Halloween I conceded that finding food without processed sugars would be nearly impossible, so I accepted that. But I wasn’t expecting to not be able to find any treats without seed oils or soy lecithin in them. Really? None? We shouldn’t give lip service to pretending to care if our kids’ candy is laced with needles, glass, poison or drugs - when the candy we buy from the store already comes with poisons in it.
We can do better than this.
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Omega 6 is in Peanuts (Peanut butter) and some other nuts. Is this imbalance in nuts also, or only in Soy lecithin and seed oils?
I am interested to know what sort of immune reaction occurs?
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The peanut oil isn't great but it's better than the industrial sunflower and canola crap. At least peanuts are fatty legumes so getting oil extracted doesn't require an advanced industrial process, although if you are avoiding all legumes this is going to be a big no .