Re:Eating Clean is Useless
by lgas on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:07AM
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In addition to what others have said, I suspect part of the difference is that "all things being equal" the snickers bar and apricot may not be so far apart, but in real life "all things are not equal" and the person that eats a snicker instead of an apricot statistically makes many more decisions in a similar vein.
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Aha, that's an interesting position and one I completely agree with. It points to the core of the matter:
It lifts the individual food-items towards a more socioeconomic, structuralistic philosophy of society. Eating the Snickers bar is communicating "I do not care about my food-choices". It is about carelessness and sloth, a stigmatic act.
And even though there is a kernel of truth in your argument, it introduces more dogma into the whole food situation.