Want to Avoid Highly Processed Foods? Start by Going Vegan [Video]

We all want to live healthier, longer lives. Still, many of us feel confused about the best food choices thanks to unscrupulous influencers pushing fads, fast-food advertising, and scaremongering studies.For example, do you know all the processing that goes into turning corn, also known as maise – one of the biggest food crops on the planet – into fizzy drinks, corn chips, and organic skinless chicken breasts?

Wait, Chicken Breast Is a Processed Food?

As Dr Neil Barnard from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) points out in the video below, all of the above foods start with corn and require processing. But, where corn chips are typically mashed into corn meal and cooked in oil with added salt, and fizzy drinks are flavoured with high-fructose corn syrup and carbonated water, it takes a lot more processing to turn corn into a living, feeling animal, and that animal into a piece of meat.

It starts …