• BanMe@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    People familiar with agriculture won’t find this odd at all, soybeans and corn are stored in silos and grain bins and moved to semis and train cars and then buildings like this. I’m honestly not sure how else people think this is done… it doesn’t grow in packet form on the sugarcane plant.

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      15 days ago

      I mean you’d expect it to be stored in silos when it’s delivered I guess. For products made I would have assumed it would’ve stored in large tanks or more silos.

      The Kellogg factory near me has delivery’s pumped into silos which connect to the factory.

      You sound a little insulting with your framing. Like I’m sure there are things you have no fucking clue how it works, but I wouldn’t judge you for it.

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        15 days ago

        Without digging deeper to find out what this salt was purposed for, they also make salt for non food products, and likely non human ingestion as well (animal salt licks and such.)

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        You mean you don’t insult the intelligence of people who don’t immediately grasp the reality of a process when confronted with incongruous information they’d attained by being removed from the forces/systems that dictate that process?

        Lame-o

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      15 days ago

      I guess it’s more of a case that you know stuff comes out of the dirt at one end and is stored in piles, and is clean at the other with sanitary packaging. The shock might just be that the later half happens later than you might expect.

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        15 days ago

        They also make salt products for de-icing roads/sidewalks, so this sale may not have been destined for food.

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          15 days ago

          I completely forgot that was a thing, I live in Australia and we don’t really do that here