Never Buy Tuna Cans with Oil
In my article I Shop at the Supermarket Every Day I informed my readers that I do not buy products that have more than two or three ingredients, especially ingredients such as sugar, flavorings, or partially hydrogenated soybean oil. In that article I did not mention the reason for avoiding soybean oil, but in a later post There is More Tuna in the 3 Ounce Can than in the 5 Ounce Can Than in the 12 Ounce Can, I explicitly warned my readers never to buy tuna with oil with a promise of a future post to explain why.
Here is that promised explanation:
root wellness+nutrition, something’s fishy… what’s in your “chicken of the sea”?
Here’s what the label on my purchased tuna can looks like:
... to make a better profit, these big name companies realized that if they add water, oil, vegetable broth, salt, and soy to their tuna, they get a higher drain weight. Which means… you get less tuna, and more water/liquid. It isn’t necessary to pack tuna in water, as you can see from the label from my can. And actually, packing tuna in oil is counterproductive. Oil mixes with oil so the natural omega-3 rich oils from the fish mix with the packing oil and when you drain the tuna, the all important omega-3s go down the drain !
Adding anything to a can of tuna is just another way for companies to hide the true inflation rate, by cutting back on expensive ingredients thus raising the cost of the product per ounce without raising the price at checkout.
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Adding oil to tuna is like importing Muslims into Western societies. It seems like they mix, but in truth it's counterproductive. Non-Muslim employers who hire Muslims quickly discover their mistake: as I reported in my article What Happens When You Hire Muslims: Muslims like to take jobs that conflict with their faith because they will harass their employers into making concessions and accommodations to remove that conflict.
For example, suppose your job requires that you wear clothing according to a company's dress code such as the one at Disneyland in California but your faith requires that you wear a Muslim headdress? No problem, you sue Disney to change their policy.
Another example, suppose a job as a cashier requires you to handle pork products such a packages of bacon but you find pork offensive. What do you do? Look for a job that is not offensive to your religion? Not if you are a Muslim. Take the job and make the store management come over to the checkout counter to ring up and handle pork products.
I know what you are thinking, the law says that if someone's religion puts an undue hardship on the employer then the company can refuse that employment. Not so fast, that law applies to all religions except Islam.
