Posted on 08/23/2018 5:58:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What were we eating like in 1998? I don’t see 2038 being a whole lot different than 2018. We were supposed to live like the Jetsons 40 years ago. That didn’t happen either.
Good points.
“That’s a nightmare.”
Yes. It reads like one of the opening paragraphs of “The Machine Stops,” a dystopian novel from the early 20th Century.
More global warming BS...
Thankfully.
I have read this story before. In book written in the 1940's and the 1950's and the 1960's and the 1970's and the 1980's and... well you get the idea.
All that is old is new again.
The only thing that is real about this is the robot harvesters which are already in use.
I learned all of this at Disneyland Anaheim when it opened when I was a child. Practically nothing about the kitchen and food changing came true.
Ronald Reagan was the Master of Ceremonies on opening day.
Whole Foods was founded in 1980.
Microbreweries have been around in the US since the 1980s. Much longer in Europe.
Pineapple has been on pizza since 1962.
Kale became popular in the 1990s.
And that a no gluten diet was necessary for people with celtics disease was certainly known in the 1980s.
It can be argued that it was known in the 1920s.
Californians refuse to remember how Republican the state was then.
So, as word gets out, which is now happening very fast, Big Food will have a lot more to deal with than trying to find new ways to sicken us.
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Agreed. Big food will take a fall like big tobacco. With cause.
So I’m a masochist on a diet, am I?
But in 1998, Whole Foods has about 100 stores concentrated in a few locales-it wasn’t a national phenomenon/the butt-end of jokes like it is today. Neither was kale, microbreweries, or pineapple pizza. And, to be sure, Coeliac disease was around then as well but you couldn’t walk into your average grocery store and be greeted with a wide-variety of gluten-free pasta, frozen waffles, cookies, and bread. Finally, had you asked the average man on the street about these things in the midst of the Clinton impeachment, they’d be hard-pressed to know about what you were talking, let alone forecast their relative dominance twenty years later.
Yep, that is the case. But the difference between Big Food and Big Tobacco was that Big Tobacco out there on their own making their stupid claims, while everyone else (probably including the kids and grandkids of those testifying to Congress) knew they were lying big-time. Big Food has the entire government and medical establishment behind them, not necessarily because they still believe Big Food, but because they don’t want to look like idiots for being totally wrong on the subject.
When Big Food goes down, it will be 100-fold the size of Big Tobacco going down, and that was pretty big on its own.
This is pure leftist propaganda, and really stupid too.
You know it. It’s funny how Adelle Davis laid much of this out decades ago. She was derided as a kook, and much of her work was rudimentary, but her overview was accurate and even predictive.
The idiot factor is being exposed. Not widespread yet but it is getting there:
“Remember the USDA Food Pyramid? The one that was posted by the lunch line in your grade school cafeteria and taught in health class? The government’s official position on how you should eat to be fit and healthy included recommendations to consume up to 11 servings of pasta, bread and crackers per day; limit meat and eggs to three servings; and count potatoes as a vegetable. Yeah, don’t eat like that.” - The Men’s Fitness Exercise Bible, Sean Hyson
Eating real food, just by itself, would eliminate a lot of maladies, both physical, mental, and by extension - social. Nothing is a panacea, but that alone would help a lot, and help quickly. Drive up a lot of prices, too!
If you mean that people did not have a stick up their fourth point about it (except for a few snobby people from NYC) you are correct but knowing about it? Yep.
And while Whole Foods was not the "national phenomenon/the butt-end of jokes" it was around and the same jokes were being told just about people who shopped at health food stores.
Kale was around and being pushed and microbreweries were around and being pushed as well.
I was not in a "trendy" area of the country and I knew about them. The city I was in had at least three microbreweries that I knew about.
And there was a bunch of gluten free products back then, they just did not label them as such. Back then it was "low-carb". Which were pretty much the same foods.
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