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Originally Posted by macker
We currently have a trillion dollar per year industry that feeds us processed food that destroys our health and a trillion dollar per year industry that treats the symptoms of eating processed food rather than the cause. Many politicians are overweight and eat on the run....Eventually the health care costs will force change....
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In modern societies, food and variety has never been as cheap or as plentiful as it is today relative to the ability of the common man to pay.
We gorge ourselves because we can.
And we are no longer the physical labour-oriented, agrarian society we used to be. We are generally sloths as well. It used to be in England that gentlemen deliberately went for a portlier look as it was an indication of status, wealth and the fact he didn't have to labour.
Meanwhile, our lifespans have never been longer. We are not suffering from this alleged processed food. Not really.
Any one of us could be a healthy weight, well-exercised and fit if we chose to be.
In the USA, there is an epidemic of people who choose the alternative because it's available to them. And they have the right to choose.
Cowperson