Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
by bitwize on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:44PM
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I would say that at least as American as processed food, are our various peculiar forms of "low religion" surrounding food. Sugar is bad for you, salt is bad for you, meat is bad for you, wheat is bad for you. Last week coffee was bad for you; today it's great for you. Every few days do a juice cleanse to flush out all the toxins inside you. Check out this new superfood from the swamps of Elbonia, loaded with antioxidants and a guaranteed cancer fighter! Et cetera.
A Native American friend put it thus: Veganism is a choice we can afford to make in modern society. If you were a Lakota living on the plains 500 or 1000 years ago, your choices were to eat buffalo or starve.
The USA is, indeed, one of the most prosperous countries in the history of ever, and one of the boons of that is we get a smörgåsbord laid out before us every day, a veritable cornucopia of foods from different sources of varying quality. It has turned us into picky eaters indeed, a luxury virtually unaffordable for most of human history.
A Native American friend put it thus: Veganism is a choice we can afford to make in modern society. If you were a Lakota living on the plains 500 or 1000 years ago, your choices were to eat buffalo or starve.
The USA is, indeed, one of the most prosperous countries in the history of ever, and one of the boons of that is we get a smörgåsbord laid out before us every day, a veritable cornucopia of foods from different sources of varying quality. It has turned us into picky eaters indeed, a luxury virtually unaffordable for most of human history.