Reddit reviews Small Brown Lentils • Pardina or Spanish Brown • 100% Desiccant Free • 5 lbs • Non-GMO Project Verified • 100% Non-Irradiated • Certified Kosher Parve • USA Grown • Field Traced • Burlap Bag

I've had great experiences with these green lentils, which have an awesome almost-peppery flavor just on their own. If you're looking for a creamier curry (lentil mush vs. recognizable individual lentils), these are pretty good red lentils. I also grabed these brown lentils, but haven't tried them in a curry yet.

Just a head's up: if you don't eat a lot of legumes, you might find that lentils give you some... flatulence. This is best avoided by rinsing the lentils very well, or by just eating more lentils -- the body adjusts pretty quickly in my experience.

Truly an incredible, delicious food!

Lentils are cheap AF on Amazon:

>Who decided that every single thing has to come wrapped in plastic?

Consumers did. Plastics are durable, long-lasting, and cheap to make. They keep food fresher as well. When these products were created and provided to consumers as an option, consumers considered them superior in quality and in cost.

But that's not all. Plastics had enormous impacts on all manner of daily life -- military applications, scientific applications, it provided us the ability to travel to space for example.

All of this due to plastics.

Nobody "decided" independently any of this. The material turned out to be highly useful and important and cost-effective and now it's used.

>Who decided that everybody should have a personal vehicle?

Consumers did. Henry Ford took an enormous gamble to create the assembly-line method of creating vehicles to lower the cost because most people considered it a ridiculous notion that people would be driving around in cars or that people wouldn't be using public transportation methods.

But it turns out consumers like having a personal vehicle and when it became affordable for more people to have it, they bought it.

It's really that simple.

>Who keeps pushing for the use of more and more bottled products for hyper-specific purposes?

People buy bottled water because they find it convenient, fast, and easily within reach. You do not have to use bottled-water products if you do not want to.

>Who decided to artificially limit the useful life of household appliances?

Consumers decided they want to upgrade appliances, especially when appliances themselves. New versions of microwaves are better than old versions, so people buy the new version. Same is true for blenders and refrigerators and TVs and diswashers and so on and so forth.

If you're referring to "planned obsolescence" such as lightbulbs for example, competing lightbulb manufacturers quickly arose to offer light-bulbs that last years longer and consumers have the choice to buy them. Many last five to ten years.

If you're referring to "perceived obsolescence" as in a change in appearance or name or branding and so on is the only real difference to the product, I think that doing that is not a big deal. Upgrading your brand or packaging is what businesses do sometimes. It's up to you as the consumer to decide if you want the "new" version or not.

>You blame it on the public that there's literally no alternative

You have a clear alternative. You can reject all modern life and then walk off into the woods never to be seen again. That is your alternative.

Consumers MAKE the market, not the service or product creators. All a product or service creator does is INTRODUCE the product or service to the marketplace (you) and then the consummers (the market) decides whether or not they want to buy it.

So when a company like Tesla decides they can GET RICH offering electric cars to the population and work for years trying to streamline battery technology in order to dramatically reduce the cost to consumers...

Then it's up to YOU whether or not you buy one when it becomes more affordable. If you, the consumer market, finds the cost attractive and the car worth it to buy, then you will buy it. Period.

When people hurrying at a frenzied pace to get meat alternatives to a viable consumer point such as lab grown meat and iron-infused veggie burgers...

And it hits the market and is affordable and grocery stores and restaurant chains begin offering it and marketing companies create campaigns that resonate with people...

Then you will BUY it. And then it will become normal.

>when big companies have been pressuring the whole economy for decades to drive out independent actors and traditional ways of doing things.

That's not how any of this works. Companies don't become "big" unless lots of people like their product and service so much they keep buying it, thus making the company big.

>Nowadays every time I buy lentils I have to throw in the trash a single-use plastic.

Here's a giant burlap sack of lentils you can have delivered straight to your door via Amazon (you have consumer options): https://www.amazon.com/Non-GMO-Project-Verified-Non-Irradiated-Certified/dp/B001PEZLCW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=dry+lentils&qid=1557917341&s=arts-crafts&sr=1-2-catcorr

>Only the supplier profits off of this, and only large-scale suppliers.

No, the consumer profits from it too because it lowers the cost. It also keeps food fresher longer.

>The public is a mine for the lust for obscene profits of corporate executives

If you want to start a business, you must create a product or offer a service that people want and are willing to pay for. There is no other conceivable way to create a successful business.

You as the consumer have all of the power and choice. The only thing a business can do is hope you choose them.

You're being ridiculous.

>If it wasn't like this, companies wouldn't have to constantly push new doodads through overblown advertising campaigns.

If a business doesn't make money, it cannot continue operating.

If people don't like the "doo-dads" the company is offering, they will go out of business.

You have full 100% autonomous choice in what "doo-dads" you think are worth it enough to spend your money on.

Nobody is forcing you.