Posted on 09/03/2018 11:59:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan
In my last article about how life was so much better 40 years ago, I promised I would even things out and talk about how things have actually improved in the past few decades since I was a kid. (I don't want anyone thinking I'm a crotchety old guy.)
So here goes — seven things that make life better now than "back in the good old days":
1. Healthier choices in food.
Health food has become mainstream. You don't have to go to some out of the way "health food shop" run by "hippies" to get what you need. All the main grocery chains now have entire sections dedicated just to non-GMO, organic food. "Free-range" is now part of our vocabulary. There are entire grocery chains that are dedicated only to offering food that is not loaded up with pesticides and hormones.
Even some restaurant chains (like Panera and Chipotle) make the effort to serve food that is entirely free of preservatives and other harmful additives. Businesses are doing this to respond to popular demand. More and more Americans desire natural foods that are a major part of the answer to the diseases they are constantly fighting.
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And then I can make a list of how it stinks compared to 40 years ago.
Most of which involve fun and freedom.
“They’ll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone”
Lawn Darts.
Caller ID and salads ready in bags.
>>1. Healthier choices in food.
>>Health food has become mainstream. You don’t have to go to some out of the way “health food shop” run by “hippies” to get what you need. All the main grocery chains now have entire sections dedicated just to non-GMO, organic food. “Free-range” is now part of our vocabulary. There are entire grocery chains that are dedicated only to offering food that is not loaded up with pesticides and hormones.
I guess the author didn’t live 40 years ago when we had the time to eat veggies from the produce dept and meat from the meat dept and none of them had growth hormones or pink slime. We cooked the food ourselves and the microwave was for leftovers.
Food is definitely NOT one of the ways that it is better now than 40 years ago...IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD.
Now, in the DEVELOPING WORLD, it is the opposite. Our ability to grow GMO food while protecting crops with SOTA pesticides is feeding the world’s population of over 7B. It is truly a miracle.
LOL. Jarts wouldn't have been my first choice proving Fun & Freedom, but yes, that's one example.
Without clicking the link, I already find issue with point #1.
The food is LABELLED healthy. But the food is not. 40 years ago we were getting better food.
Believe it.
The new labels are junk. They are lies that are made through grinding teeth. These companies MUST add things to the food per government regulation, transportation and spoilage concerns.
The government requires any farm in the US that sells to the public to have antibiotics and treatments for their livestock. There is no such thing as anti-biotic free. But they get a work around, and are allowed to state this because they don’t add “extra” antibiotics.
Farm animals are full of shots and vaccines. They have to be in order to live in their environment without millions of pounds of livestock being recalled. It’s foolish to think that anything you get in a grocery store (Or even at many farmer’s markets) is “non gmo”. Everything is GMO but they get special strange rules about printing these things on packages now.
Nothing today is any good. We have spoiled the food crops, globally. now we can do our best to contain the damage and maybe breed new strains of vegetables, animals and adaptive livestock.
Technology makes it even easier for government to deceive the people.
A lot of people have never had a real chicken either. I LOVE processed chicken now because it tastes so damned good.
Real chicken is what I ate as a kid. Totally different beast. On the other hand I had some rotisserie chicken from Walmart recently and was SHOCKED by the amount of fat in it. Like really, really unhealthy pockets of fat that make no sense at all. The birds have been altered in such a way that they are hardly chickens anymore. Just piles of bird meat flopping around until they die.
That chicken was gross. But yeah, today’s chicken at the store is tastier than it used to be. Worse for you, but tasty.
The Chipotle places around here are either nearly-empty or have gone under. Their effort to eliminate “harmful additives” isn’t working so well.
No, you would get endless ringing.
Our corn, globally, is junk now. We knew that the ethanol market was going to ruin it. People picking up corn strains that weren’t good enough for horses are now making their way to dedicated corn farms.
Corn used to be like candy. Oh my god it was soo good. I can make it out to the Amish now and try to get something good, but even theirs has tainted genetics. Ethanol corn spilled into our food supply like a broken dam. It was uncontrolled, totally.
Now this corn is almost impossible to digest, people are getting Crohns (Like my poor wife) and IBS (Like my poor me) in numbers that were unheard of. I think that the destroyed corn crop is part of this problem.
But those corn strains are gone forever. Maybe someday someone smart can make another but it hasn’t happened yet for the Banana (Bananas went extinct in the 70s. The new strain is totally different than the ones I grew up with)
At the root of every. single. evil lies the Government.
Every one. I have yet to find an exception.
Jimmy Carter's not POTUS any more?
#6 is that the Soviet Union is gone, and that is definitely true. The Second World, however, has been replaced by the Islamofascist World, with the main difference being that the Soviets really didn’t want to die, while the terrorists think it’s wonderful to die while taking everyone else to Hell with them.
We ate (yech) at Chipotle just once.
The ground beef was grey in color. I don’t think that’s natural.
‘Nuff said, first and last visit.
Furthermore, the price of their stock is outrageous.
Chipotle’s problem was improper food handling was making their customers sick. For their sake (and their customers’) I hope they straightened themselves out. But if not, the marketplace will push them out.
The popular opinion as to what constitutes “healthy food” has changed. I’m not too sure the food is any healthier. Fruits and vegetables aren’t food, they’re supplements. Food is protein, fats and carbohydrates.
“meat from the meat dept and none of them had growth hormones or pink slime.”
Meat is better quality today. The instances of e-coli and other pathogens would have to be much lower.
Growth hormones were very much in use 40 years ago. We put the pellets which were the size of a BB, under the skin layer in the ear of cattle.
There was no negative side effect back then from growth hormones, and there isn’t today.
It was a minuscule amount of a naturally occurring substance.
Plus cooking would neutralize it even if it somehow was still there.
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