Food Companies That Serve You 'Wood'

[TalkingDog]

(not Give You Wood, you pervs)

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11012915/1/cellulose-wood-pulp-never-tasted-so-good.html

Cellulose is virgin wood pulp that has been processed and manufactured to different lengths for functionality, though use of it and its variant forms (cellulose gum, powdered cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, etc.) is deemed safe for human consumption, according to the FDA, which regulates most food industry products. The government agency sets no limit on the amount of cellulose that can be used in food products meant for human consumption. The USDA, which regulates meats, has set a limit of 3.5% on the use of cellulose, since fiber in meat products cannot be recognized nutritionally.

"As commodity prices continue to rally and the cost of imported materials impacts earnings, we expect to see increasing use of surrogate products within food items. Cellulose is certainly in higher demand and we expect this to continue," Michael A. Yoshikami, chief investment strategist at YCMNet Advisors, told TheStreet.

Manufacturers use cellulose in food as an extender, providing structure and reducing breakage, said Dan Inman, director of research and development at J. Rettenmaier USA, a company that supplies "organic" cellulose fibers for use in a variety of processed foods and meats meant for human and pet consumption, as well as for plastics, cleaning detergents, welding electrodes, pet litter, automotive brake pads, glue and reinforcing compounds, construction materials, roof coating, asphalt and even emulsion paints, among many other products.

[msongs]

1. sawdust burgers on sawdust buns. hold the mayo, it probably has no sawdust in it. nt

[Javaman]

2. During the siege at Leningrad people were eating the binding glue from old books..

which was basically; cellulose.

[Raschel]

3. "we expect to see increasing use of surrogate (substitute) products within food items."

Does this mean that they won't have to have all of the additives and preservatives because it's not really food? Wow. Then they can call it 'all natural' unfood.

[formercia]

4. Sawdust Bread and Turnip Soup

Sunday Dinner at Auschwitz.


...but...but...Fiber is good for you. The man on TV said so.

[jmowreader]

5. Y'know, y'all's memory is pretty damn short...

if you're astonished by this.

In 1979, the Federal Trade Commission handed down a consent order against ITT Continental Baking Company, manufacturers of such not-overly-nutritious baked goods as Twinkies. They had introduced a new "low calorie high fiber" bread named Fresh Horizons, which they claimed had "five times the fiber of whole wheat!" The FTC found that not only did this bread NOT contain five times the fiber of whole wheat bread, the ads were "false, deceptive and misleading because the fiber is derived from wood, an ingredient not commonly used, nor anticipated by consumers to be commonly used, in bread." After Johnny Carson renamed the product Beaver Bread, it kinda disappeared shortly thereafter.

http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1984/08/nemeth.html