How can you get pure cow ghee for 500 rupees per kg?
Good question.
Let's ask the same question for oils, the vegetable oils that we routinely buy for cooking.
The price at which, say coconut oil is sold is less than the cost you will bear if you buy coconuts and crush them at home or at your nearest oil mill.
What's the secret? There is no secret. The oil is adulterated with liquid paraffin. The cold pressed oil manufacturer near my house says he gets routine visits from salesmen offering to sell liquid paraffin along with additives to make the oil look and smell like whatever oil you want.
"Refined" oil further goes through processes which make it completely unhealthy. The factories that process them are finally industries that work for profit.
Now if you are a halwai / mithaiwala, which oil will you use? I don't even want to go down that path, it is distressing to even think about.
And we order food casually from "cloud kitchens"!
And then wonder where our health has gone. The litany of ailments if listed would only be cause for further depression.
There is no alternative to tracking all your food to the source. Meaning: tracking each ingredient to the source.
And buying from people you know who buy from people they know.
And buy only things that grow from the supermarkets, only cold pressed oils, raw unprocessed sea salt.
And cook your own food at home.
I am not presenting this as a case to be debated, I am making the case that there is no alternative.
And learn to cook. It's a life skill, and increasingly essential in the modern world where you cannot trust the sources from which you get your food.
If you have a better idea on how to ensure that the food you are eating is actually food, let me know.
And we have not even touched upon the chemicals, additives and preservatives that are added in our foods. We don't need to go so far, it's an open and shut case even before we go there
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