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In the ingredients lists of many processed food products, you'll find the term, L-cysteine.
This comes through the synthesis of human hair, and poultry feathers.
is it normal that most people aren't aware of the things that go into making up the food that we buy and eat?
Oh god! I hope that isn't in my bread. I've been chopping on that bread like crazy. Then again, I've kept an eye on the ingredients ever since I learned about this form of legalised cannibalism. I'm sure I would've noticed an ingredient like that. I think my bread says vegan or vegetarian so, it should be okay. O_O
I'd say it was very normal, especially in the US and UK. Not too far back, there was a big thing in the UK about horse meat being sold as beef.
Many fast food restaurants serve 'beef' and 'chicken' but it isn't necessarily all the meat from these animals. It can be bone, organs, hair (as you stated) eyeballs, etc. and yet still meet the qualifications for 'pure' whatever. A 'pure beef' patty at McDonald's could easily only contain about 10% meat and the rest could be other parts of the animal, which is still beef.
Truth in advertising only goes so far, at least in the USA.
True.
Makes me wonder if populations from other countries throughout the world would stand for this sort of thing?
Most of the third world eats things we in the 'civilized' world wouldn't even consider food, so it probably wouldn't come up.
Several of the Ebola outbreaks have come from eating or handling 'bush meat' a bat. Many cultures eat insects, from chocolate covered grasshoppers to the witchetty grubs of the Aboriginal Australians. I've had monkey in Indonesia and mystery meat on kabobs almost everywhere I've traveled and honestly, if it tastes good, I don't really care to know what I'm eating. Very few things screw up my digestive system more than a McDonald's burger, though.
I wouldn't necessarily mind eating things considered strange or exotic, including insects etc...
What I find disturbing is the lack of transparency in the food industry. - The intentional deception and misleading wordplay.
I want all of the ingredients that I buy and ingest, to be made EXCEEDINGLY, and abundantly clear. - But they aren't.
I figure if I'm spending my money on what I believe to be food, that it should be food.
No matter what the product is though, if I'm buying it and feeding my family with it, what it's made up of should be clearly labeled.
Abstain from the processed industrial faux foods please. Unless you like them.
We're omnivores.