09-11-2015, 01:42 PM
Firstly, I'm not sure if you realized that the McDonald's lab grown meat article was satire...
To me, the modern industrial food system represents *lack* of real food, chemical concoctions masquerading as food that was once alive. Over processed, additives that make foods addictive; chemicals that are only added because of the chain reactions that occur from our tongue and nose to our brain.
Is your argument really that eating McDonald's is a healthier alternative to the diets of 100 years ago? Are you confusing quality with quantity? Because if we're going to have the quantity argument, if we stop using our prime farmland to grow corn to feed cows, that's how we feed the rest of the (human) world.
The best food I've ever eaten is food that I've grown on my own land and cooked in my own kitchen. I've been to other countries, and worked in several fine-dining restaurants. To me, the hedonistic "but we get so many different foods now!" argument is so off-base.... I mean, we're really talking about the comfort of living beings, are we not? But the system is good because it gives us tasty, exotic things?
I have a couple Ra quotes repeating in my head:
Quote:I agree, there are many problems with the modern industrial food system... but look at what it replaced. Prior to the 20th Century, the diets of everyone but the wealthy were incredibly substandard by our reckoning - bland, minimally healthy, unbalanced, and usually with tainted ingredients. Either they covered up the rot with heavy and somewhat antibacterial spices, as in Indian food, or else just boiled it to tasteless mush to kill any germs, as in English food.
And, of course, if a drought or lengthy freeze hit an area during the middle ages, the peasants were f*cked. Simple as that.
The combination of pasteurization, canning, modern transportation, and extended supply lines has brought safe, generally nutritious, and relatively tasty food to the entire planet, and with a variety that even a King couldn't have enjoyed 500 years ago. It's what's made "feeding the world" a practical possibility for the first time in history, and such systems in SOME form will basically be necessary to keep the population stable in the years to come.
To me, the modern industrial food system represents *lack* of real food, chemical concoctions masquerading as food that was once alive. Over processed, additives that make foods addictive; chemicals that are only added because of the chain reactions that occur from our tongue and nose to our brain.
Is your argument really that eating McDonald's is a healthier alternative to the diets of 100 years ago? Are you confusing quality with quantity? Because if we're going to have the quantity argument, if we stop using our prime farmland to grow corn to feed cows, that's how we feed the rest of the (human) world.
The best food I've ever eaten is food that I've grown on my own land and cooked in my own kitchen. I've been to other countries, and worked in several fine-dining restaurants. To me, the hedonistic "but we get so many different foods now!" argument is so off-base.... I mean, we're really talking about the comfort of living beings, are we not? But the system is good because it gives us tasty, exotic things?
I have a couple Ra quotes repeating in my head:
Quote:Ra: I am Ra. The technology your peoples possess at this time is capable of resolving each and every limitation which plagues your social memory complex at this present nexus of experience. However, the concerns of some of your beings with distortions towards what you would call powerful energy cause these solutions to be withheld until the solutions are so needed that those with the distortion can then become further distorted in the direction of power.
Quote:We may note at this point while you ponder the possibility/probability vortices that although you have many, many items which cause distress and thus offer seeking and service opportunities, there is always one container in that store of peace, love, light, and joy. This vortex may be very small, but to turn one’s back upon it is to forget the infinite possibilities of the present moment. Could your planet polarize towards harmony in one fine, strong moment of inspiration? Yes, my friends. It is not probable; but it is ever possible.