Posted on 03/17/2015 6:38:47 AM PDT by PeteePie
Full headline: Huh? Mother Jones Explains Why Eating 3 Square Meals A Day is Actually Racist.
According to an essay by Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler, eating three meals a day is “anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick.”
Butler’s astounding proclamation that three square meals is “racist” is supported by her interview with Historian Abigail Carroll, who wrote the book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal:
When European settlers got to America, they also imported their meal habits: a light meal—maybe cold mush and radishes—in the morning, a heavier, cooked one midday, and a third meal similar to the first one later in the day.
They observed that the eating schedule of the native tribes was less rigid—the volume and timing of their eating varied with the seasons. Sometimes, when food was scarce, they fasted.
The Europeans took this as “evidence that natives were uncivilized,” Carroll explained to me in an email. “Civilized people ate properly and boundaried their eating, thus differentiating themselves from the animal kingdom, where grazing is the norm.”
Butler goes on to urge her readers to abandon the racist, European invention by forgoing the three meals-a-day tradition.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
Western Culture, which is based on Judeo-Christian tradition, is “racist”,
because that’s a proven effective weapon to attack it.
I think a lot of families have already abandoned this “racist” tradition. Mothers can’t be bothered to cook. No one eats breakfast anymore. And kids and adults snack all day. And look how healthy we’ve all become by doing so!!
anti science Racist ...and it is also a known cause of global climate chaos.
“native Americans” GRAZED did they?
I also see the worldview difference in Carroll’s argument, though she probably does not.
Her assertion is that the “European” norm was imposed on the “natural” norm of grazing, from the animal kingdom.
What we see here is that the worldview of Man being a Special Creation being called “European” and inherently evil colonialist,
and the “natural” (ie, evolutionist/humanist) worldview is her preferred “norm”.
When there was no food-they fasted. Ya think!
She looks like she’s barely out of a training bra. My 6 year old grand daughter can tell her about food because I don’t fill her head with nonsense.
Note also that the Native Americans were in her POV essentially a species of wildlife. Not really human.
Three Squares is the rule in Prison.
Kind of a paternalist view, is it not?
Kind of like putting an Australian aborigine on display as proof of evolution.
They ate whenever they could find food, and fasted when they couldn’t. Before P.C., we called that,”barely surviving”. I am certain that the Incas, Aztecs and Mayas probably had regular meals, as did any other cultures that had developed agriculture.
Because being European is racist.
In this day and age, is there anything out there that isn't racist?😱
So the Roanoke Colony wasn’t racist because they all starved to death?
Right. And it couldn’t have possibly been these evil “European norms” that propelled that society into educate itself to invent superior tools of civilization, innovate through the hurdles of nature to establish thriving cities, open the creative mind to forms of art that appeared somewhere other than cave walls...
Sounds raciss to me
If I had the time, I’d divide my daily food into 5 or 6 small meals. Right now it’s 4. No long stretches of hunger, no feeling stuffed or tired after a large meal and it seems easier to control my weight.
and I believe then that the Donner party epitomized the essence of multi-culturalism.
I saw what you did there...
This why I laugh when my uncle sends me stuff from MJ to back up his leftist views.
These people are race obsessed to the point of genuine mental illness. Stuff like this piece is not a valid political or sociological perspective. It is the rambling gibberish of a disturbed person.
Do any of these people have jobs where they go each day and actually produce something of value??
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