A consumer thread
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HSanders
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Every nutritional "advancement" of the last century was actually an adaptation to scarcity dressed up as science.Margarine wasn't invented because it was healthier than butter. It was invented because butter was expensive during the Napoleonic Wars and the French military needed cheap fat.Napoleon III offered a prize for a butter substitute that could feed troops and the poor. Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès won by creating beef tallow mixed with milk. It was awful, but it was cheap.By WWI, beef tallow was too expensive. They switched to hydrogenated vegetable oils. Much worse, but even cheaper.The American Heart Association endorsed margarine over butter not because margarine was healthier but because Procter & Gamble funded them to say so. The product they endorsed caused heart disease. But it was profitable, so it was "progress."Breakfast cereal wasn't invented to improve nutrition. John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes to reduce masturbation in his sanitarium patients. He thought bland food would suppress sexual urges. That's the medical foundation of your morning cereal - Victorian sexual repression therapy.When cereal companies realized you could manufacture grain products for pennies and sell them as "healthy breakfast," they marketed them as superior to eggs and bacon. Not because they were. Because profit margins were better.Soy formula wasn't developed because it was equivalent to breast milk. It was developed because dairy-allergic babies needed something and pharmaceutical companies saw a market.Then they expanded that market by convincing mothers that formula was more scientific than breastfeeding. Modern, progressive, liberated women used formula. Traditional women breastfed.The "advancement" was marketing, not nutrition. Breast milk was still undeniably superior. But formula was profitable, so it became progress.Low-fat dietary guidelines weren't created because fat was discovered to be harmful. They were created because the grain industry needed markets for their products and the pharmaceutical industry needed customers for statins. Remove fat, add grains, create metabolic disease, sell statins. Perfect vertical integration.Every "nutritional advance" of the modern era follows the same pattern:Traditional food becomes expensive or inconvenient. Industry creates cheaper alternative. Alternative is nutritionally inferior. Marketing disguises this as progress. Guidelines institutionalize it. Pharmaceuticals treat the resulting disease.We didn't discover that butter was bad. We discovered that margarine was profitable.We didn't discover that breast milk was inferior. We discovered that formula was scalable.We didn't discover that fat was dangerous. We discovered that statins were patentable.Every time we call something progress, check who profits from the "advancement."Your ancestors ate butter, breastfed their babies, and cooked in animal fats. They were told this was primitive and unhealthy.You eat margarine, feed babies formula, and cook in seed oils. You're told this is advanced and healthy.One population had low rates of chronic disease. One has epidemics.Progress.
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More profits for big processing, not for the cattlemen. And don't buy into the idea that meat prices won't go up, because they are definitely going to rise:
Tyson plant closure and shifts being cut will eliminate 7 to 9 percent of total beef processing capacity nationwide
Tyson plant closure and shifts being cut will eliminate 7 to 9 percent of total beef processing capacity nationwide
HSanders
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So is he saying, you should never remote start your car and let it run? Because of construction, I have to park my car outside all winter. And we're getting feet and feet of snow here, I'll be dammed if I get into an ice cold fucking car that has two feet of snow on it. it'll take me longer to scrape the shit off of the outside of my car too than if I let it warm up and defrost.
I don't want any touch screen, or "smart" appliances, period. I don't even like my basic electric range. I'd rather have a gas stove/oven.
100%, see my last post in the food thread. They engineer food to be cheaper, more efficient to grow, or more shelf stable. They never improve it.
Shelf stability is ok for certain things ... Frozen veg and fruits (all natural, that is) is just fine. Canned - low sodium options are grwt for store cupboard staples.
Meats, bread? NO! In Europe I got into the habit of buying bread 3-4 times a week. It was just bread - no stabilizers or preservatives - from a real baker. 1000x better.
Yeah I'm talking more about genetically engineering things, like wheat in the 50's, or making fake versions of real food. Even what you feed animals changes the nutritional value of what they produce, like eggs and meats.
good. Shit never should have been "legalized" in the first place.
@LordSensei1958 - please, educate me. Why is it a retarded take to feel that weed (and all others) should not be legalized.
If you think weed should be illegal, you must also think that alcohol should be illegal as well. They're both mind altering, with alcohol being far more destructive than weed. Weed isn't going to give you cirrhosis of the liver. Drunk drivers kill themselves and/or others. Stoned drivers kill a bag of Doritos. There's many examples I could give where alcohol is far worse than pot.
We can also talk about the revenue it brings in taxes, unclogging the justice system by not arresting people for smoking pot. Also there's medicinal reasons for smoking weed too.
Why in the world do you think it should be illegal? Don't you like personal freedom where you're allowed to make a choice rather than the government making that choice for you?
Every state that has legalized it has seen a downturn ... more crime, more homelessness. Colorado, Mass ... falling apart.
A line was drawn long ago - weed, heroin, hash, coke - all of it should be illegal.
