The Seer:
Give us this day our daily foam expander. It may sound odd, but in America, your loaf of bread can contain ingredients for industrial applications – additives that also appear in things like yoga mats, pesticides, hair straighteners, explosives and petroleum products.
Some of these chemicals, used as optional whiteners, dough conditioners and rising agents, may be harmful to human health. Potassium bromate, a potent oxidizer that helps bread rise, has been linked to kidney and thyroid cancers in rodents. Azodicarbonamide (ACA), a chemical that forms bubbles in foams and plastics like vinyl, is used to bleach and leaven dough – but when baked, it, too, has been linked to cancer in lab animals.
The Seer
The area of Idaho where the Seer and her family live, grows tens of thousands of acres of wheat. But it is well known that the farmers won’t eat their own wheat. The Seer orders flour from Italy when her budget permits. Where does she buy her organic flour? From Amazon USA.
We can live without bread. I have skipped bread out of my diet not buying or making any but will only eat it as last resort.
Not to mention the glyphosate content in wheat.
The USA has a lot of these unethically ultra processed foods. I’m stunned it’s still legal, what the “food” industries get away with .
Oh yes. We get most of our bread from specialty bakers that use natural ingredients to leaven bread.
Sorry to hear that. If the Seer would like to try ancient heirloom grains grown organically from B.C. Maybe it would be more affordable than Italy….. I buy my grains from a Creston farmer just north of Idaho border, Treasurelifeflourmills
She probably gets it from abroad because all of North American grain is potentially problematic due to glyphosates, genetically modified seeds, etc. carried by the wind.
*My husband and I……
My husband and removed bread from our diet years ago for this reason. We also do not consume dairy products or even oat or almond milk because both oats and almonds are heavily sprayed with pesticides, etc.
It is becoming almost impossible to trust any foods that one does not grow and harvest themselves.