Posted on 02/02/2015 5:08:56 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
I recently had to have brain surgery and my tastes completely changed. 54 years of not liking chocolate pudding are now gone and chocolate pudding is now on the shopping list (ingredients, more likely, for real pudding). I will try everything I can, and keep what I like.
Food faddism is really close to ingratitude.
/johnny
I’ve never been hungry a day in my life. But I am still grateful no matter the fair. We live in privileged times and a fantastic place.
fare, not fair.
I like the term food faddism. On some level a lot of this stuff is a fad. On another level though, especially with leftists, they want to inject politics into every single daily event. Food for them is a political statement. Unfortunately a lot of conservative Christians have gotten caught up in it because it begins with a little bit of truth before morphing into an ungrateful lie. It starts with desiring to eat healthy, which is a perfectly fine thing. It then morphs into lists of “food” and “not food.” We’re to the point where internet sages will tell us whether our morning corn flakes are food or not. (usually not)
Can you substantiate your claim that these "hundreds of blogs" are all part of the Christian Right, and that these "diets around food seen in the Bible" are the same as "declaring what is and isn't food"?
Me? I mainly ignore them and eat what I want. I will have real eggs, real bacon, home-roasted coffee, and home-made spicy salsa for breakfast.
And anyone that doesn't like it can pound sand. But that's just me. ;)
/johnny
I am with you!
Since I increased my intake of bacon and eggs and meat in general I have felt better; lowered my blood pressure; and have more energy.
Plus, all that stuff tastes good!
There is something wrong with avoiding fake frankenfoods and sticking to good, clean, fresh ingredients?
Your word choice reveals your bias.
/johnny
Yeh johnny I stopped using margarine and switched back to real butter. Soooo much better tasting and its real food from nature.
I still like to eat food from my garden that I grew myself. That’s the place I see the miracle of the world that the Lord has given us and the place I feel closest to God.
Amen!
Not much garden so far this year, but if I last through the spring, you can bet I'll have stuff out of the garden.
/johnny
The point is, the choice is up to the individual. I’m a skeptic on the GMO hysteria, myself.
Of course, this is really about controlling the food supply - a typical ploy of dictators. The right should never buy into it.
Well, I don’t think Cherrios and Corn Flakes are food, either. But it’s not for religious reasons. I just don’t waste precious calories on food I don’t like and don’t enjoy.
He said from around a mouthful of bacon.
A Christan friend shared a blog about the FDA allowing arsenic in chicken. We have a wonderful food supply but it may play into distrust of the government. Ironically, this woman seems to be sympathetic to democrats. So much confusion and superstition these days!
Alex, maybe I don’t get out much, but I haven’t heard any Christians telling anybody to eat or not eat anything. Maybe some do, but I don’t know of any.
Nonsense. GM corn is corn. GM soybeans are soybeans. Same for all other GM crops. There is no nutritional difference between GM corn and soybeans and non-GM varieties. The GM products have been modified for insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, and/or drought resistance, which allows signficant reductions in pesticide use, encourages no-till cultivation, reduces soil erosion, and reduces the need for irrigation. All of this improves yield. It also produces a healthier plant with less insect damage and weather related stress, so generally lower mycotoxins. I.e., if you are interested in healthy food, the GM variety is typically healthier, and better for the environment.
If none of this matters to you, that's fine. Buy non-GM products, or buy organic. Pay the premium and be happy. Your dollars, your choice. But don't invent hobgoblins to rationalize your food fetish.
The next frontier in GM will probably be varieties that offer tangible health benefits to consumers, as opposed to agronomic benefits to farmers. Golden rice is already there, and it is interesting to note that it is opposed anyhow by activist groups, who hate Golden Rice precisely because it is such a powerful advertisement for the technology. The opposition to GM technology is not driven by food safety or food quality concerns; it is rooted in opposition to modern agricultural technology, increasing economies of scale, and fear of competition.
Explore the Greenpeace website sometime. Their preferred future relies on peasant farmers in village communities producing for local markets; i.e., they are basically opposed to 20th century agriculture, not just GMOs. Feeding nine billion people by 2050 and producing an improved diet for the rapidly growing global middle class are not on their priority list.
/johnny
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