Originally Posted by
SHBR
Humans are quite adaptable when it comes to food sources. There is an extreme amount of zealotry on both sides of the meat vs. veg debate. Most of us reside somewhere in the middle. This is classic social engineering, the us vs. them mentality that is very prevalent in modern society. I think it should also be noted that most of the 3 letter agencies in the US, and now in other countries are often a revolving door between large corporations and government.
Corporatocracy is the order of the day. Profit trumps health, much to the detriment of all life on this planet.
Yes, humans ARE quite adaptable. They had to be to survive. If they could obtain a dead animal they ate it. If they could obtain a tuber, they ate that. To survive they needed to eat whatever they could find. But, because you CAN eat it does not mean you SHOULD eat it. Today we have far more choices than our ancestors -- even from a hundred years ago... We can choose for health or we can choose for taste and pleasure.
The food industry mostly wants us to go for taste & pleasure because that's where the money is: So they sell us processed foods that have the healthiest of their ingredients stripped away and what is left is a tasteless, unhealthy product with a long shelf life -- so they load it up with fats, sugars, salt and artificial chemical compounds to create the taste they want. They profit and we get sick -- maybe it takes 20 years for the cancer or diabetes or heart disease to show up -- but every unhealthy meal contributes to one or more of those chronic diseases that are becoming epidemic in western, developed society.
And yes, there are a lot of fad diets out there based on pseudo science where the science is used to prove a conclusion rather than the conclusion evolving from the science. But do not believe that all diets are fad diets or based on pseudo science merely because they depart from a variation of the Standard American Diet. That is misguided. It is what the Corporatocracy wants you to believe...
... As they tell us: "There are no bad foods!" LOL...