Replies

>>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.

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.

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)

“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.