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Eating 3 Square Meals A Day Is Actually Racist
Mother Jones ^ | 3/04/2015 | Kiera Butler

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 ...


TOPICS: Food; History; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: culture; food; racism; realoldnews
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1 posted on 03/17/2015 6:38:47 AM PDT by PeteePie
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To: PeteePie

Western Culture, which is based on Judeo-Christian tradition, is “racist”,

because that’s a proven effective weapon to attack it.


2 posted on 03/17/2015 6:41:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PeteePie

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!!


3 posted on 03/17/2015 6:42:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PeteePie

anti science Racist ...and it is also a known cause of global climate chaos.

“native Americans” GRAZED did they?


4 posted on 03/17/2015 6:44:44 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: PeteePie

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”.


5 posted on 03/17/2015 6:44:48 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PeteePie

When there was no food-they fasted. Ya think!


6 posted on 03/17/2015 6:47:57 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: PeteePie

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.


7 posted on 03/17/2015 6:48:59 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Note also that the Native Americans were in her POV essentially a species of wildlife. Not really human.


8 posted on 03/17/2015 6:50:02 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Three Squares is the rule in Prison.


9 posted on 03/17/2015 6:51:15 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sherman Logan

Kind of a paternalist view, is it not?

Kind of like putting an Australian aborigine on display as proof of evolution.


10 posted on 03/17/2015 6:51:51 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MeshugeMikey

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.


11 posted on 03/17/2015 6:52:02 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: PeteePie

Because being European is racist.


12 posted on 03/17/2015 6:52:24 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Who knew?

In this day and age, is there anything out there that isn't racist?😱

13 posted on 03/17/2015 6:53:10 AM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered, all it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage)
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So the Roanoke Colony wasn’t racist because they all starved to death?


14 posted on 03/17/2015 6:53:54 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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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...


15 posted on 03/17/2015 6:56:50 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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Note also that the Native Americans were in her POV essentially a species of wildlife. Not really human.

Sounds raciss to me

16 posted on 03/17/2015 6:58:16 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie

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.


17 posted on 03/17/2015 6:58:38 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: driftdiver

and I believe then that the Donner party epitomized the essence of multi-culturalism.


18 posted on 03/17/2015 6:59:44 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: massgopguy
Three Squares is the rule in Prison.

I saw what you did there...

19 posted on 03/17/2015 7:03:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: PeteePie

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??


20 posted on 03/17/2015 7:03:53 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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