I agree with the general tenor, however this post describes horrific societal effects of technology while claiming technology saves us.
The incredibly bad 20s were the prior height of capitalist control of government, and dressing it in "the Roaring 20a" elides that point. We are now in a resurgence of those same forces, and we are starting to see signed of the same effects, the loosening of child labor, the construction of franchise for minorities, and the degradation of women's rights.
It all adds up to a simplistic and not particularly honest argument.
The weird thing about humans is that we are naturally wired to suppress bad memories. Thus we tend to "remember" the past wearing "rose-colored glasses." The past will look better than it was and the present worse than it really is.
And all those convenience breakfast foods (including juice) are making us sicker and sicker over the long term. From a food perspective we would be better off in most cases going back to that time.
"...food processing tends to strip nutrition from food. This is not a nefarious act by “evil” food corporations, but rather a necessity for enhancing shelf life. Bacteria, like any other organism, seek out nutrients. To extend shelf life, food needs to be unattractive to bacteria and insects, thus the nutrition must be removed.
For the same reason, modern food production has thrown our Omega-3/Omega-6 ratio woefully out of balance. Omega-3 fatty acids break down and spoil quickly, so food production and selective breeding began selecting against Omega-3 long before science had even identified its existence. In the meantime, the availability of Omega-6s fatty acids has exploded. We are getting far too little of the former and far too much of the latter."
I agree with the general tenor, however this post describes horrific societal effects of technology while claiming technology saves us.
The incredibly bad 20s were the prior height of capitalist control of government, and dressing it in "the Roaring 20a" elides that point. We are now in a resurgence of those same forces, and we are starting to see signed of the same effects, the loosening of child labor, the construction of franchise for minorities, and the degradation of women's rights.
It all adds up to a simplistic and not particularly honest argument.
The weird thing about humans is that we are naturally wired to suppress bad memories. Thus we tend to "remember" the past wearing "rose-colored glasses." The past will look better than it was and the present worse than it really is.
And all those convenience breakfast foods (including juice) are making us sicker and sicker over the long term. From a food perspective we would be better off in most cases going back to that time.
I would have to agree with you. While today's food is more convenient, it came at the expense of nutrients. I dived into this a bit here: https://www.lianeon.org/p/the-paradox-of-processed-food
"...food processing tends to strip nutrition from food. This is not a nefarious act by “evil” food corporations, but rather a necessity for enhancing shelf life. Bacteria, like any other organism, seek out nutrients. To extend shelf life, food needs to be unattractive to bacteria and insects, thus the nutrition must be removed.
For the same reason, modern food production has thrown our Omega-3/Omega-6 ratio woefully out of balance. Omega-3 fatty acids break down and spoil quickly, so food production and selective breeding began selecting against Omega-3 long before science had even identified its existence. In the meantime, the availability of Omega-6s fatty acids has exploded. We are getting far too little of the former and far too much of the latter."