The Food Industry Is Not Our Friend

Based on the hair styles and bathing suits, I’m guessing this shot (larger version below) was taken in the mid-1960s.  What do you notice about it?

What I find most striking is that there is not a single obese person in it.

Whatever the exact date, it was before Coke and McDonalds, and the rest of the processed food industry began to start poisoning us.

Families tended to be nuclear, with the cook, normally the mom, shopping for food and preparing meals based on fresh, wholesome ingredients.  Meat wasn’t shot up with hormones and antibiotics.  Vegetables weren’t grown in monocrops, blasted with insecticides, and living in depleted soil that is partially resuscitated only via chemical fertilizers. Genetic modification happened in the field, and aimed for fruit and vegetables that were more nutritious and better tasting.  Today, genetic modification happens in a laboratory, which is fine, but now it’s focused on making larger and more uniformly sized produce, and has long ceased to be concerned with nutritional value.

Grocery stores contained a few junk items, but now this garbage covers three-quarters of a store’s square footage.

This is what happens when a civilization gives way to greed.  Per Statistica, in the United States, retail and food services sales amounted to $6.2 trillion in 2019, increasing for the tenth successive year.  Most of the people involved have zero concern for the well-being of their customers.