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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, the NHL was probably better back then, when many players did not wear helmets and as a result were that good deal less careless or deliberate with their sticks and also that good deal more recognizable to fans in person or watching on TV. And the tough guys were able to protect the non combatants that good deal more as well (before the instigator rule was adopted).
I will NOT give him the first one. Meat SUCKS now including chicken. It hasn’t enough fat anymore. Unless you buy expensive name brands, steak, pork chops sausage are tasteless. Chicken in the past 2 yrs or so is suddenly tough and rubbery. Milk is thin, same with half and half. Although a reprieve in that last: Land O Lakes has come out with a buttercream half and half that has restored my morning cup of coffee to what it was 40 yrs ago. The fact 5hat there is a market for half and half that tastes, well, like half and half tells you all you need to know.
I agree with all of these. I’m happy.
Healthier choices in food.
What nonsense.
All the healthy food was available 40 years ago.
I’d say about the only real improvement is in medical care.
Oh, sure - WAY better:
- The government has much better files on all of us
- We have bars on our windows and electronic alarms
- The Communists are proudly marching in our streets and morons are pushing Socialism
- Every tinpot dictator and terrorist have nukes
- We are now “North Mexico” thanks to decades of involuntary importation
- GCA68
- The new normal is abnormal
- We have 1,348 TV channels and nothing worth watching
Now balance that against 40 years ago, kids could play outside in the sun without fear of child molesters. If you lived outside the city, you needn’t lock your door at night. Drugs were a tiny fraction of the problem it is today.
Crime really did not pay. You went to school to learn. Men tipped their hats to ladies. You went to church to worship God, not make it a social gathering.
I know that you can never go back; but I sure enjoyed life my more back then.
All seven have made life better.
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>> “All the main grocery chains now have entire sections dedicated just to non-GMO...” <<
GMO was not a threat to the very existance of life on Earth 40 years ago, but it certainly is today.
Yes, life is better now.
Don’t let the FR clinically depressed spoil it. There’s always a dark cloud above the silver lining for them.
People opt for the convenience and lower cost of regular grocery food, and then bitch about the quality, rather than going to a local farmer’s market, or paying more.
Greatest Innovation = Online Bill Pay.
Online shopping is pretty good too. I remember going from store to store searching for a product or the best deal. What a time waster!
Really, just about everything online. It frees up time for more online Solitaire. [Just kidding]
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