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]]> By: john http://obrag.org/?p=13312&cpage=1#comment-26906 john Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:14:43 +0000 http://obrag.org/?p=13312#comment-26906 We have far too many standards of living these days (at least the 5-10% of the global population considered the "haves") that would have been insanely opulent luxuries to people before say, 1930. Refrigeration may be the most important. This, along with the internal combustion engine (trucking) distribution network, gives us a multitude of food choices unimaginable to the rest of human history. Just look at the breakfast cereal aisle, or the cookie shelf at your supermarket. The automobile also would be a dream to the same people- you walked everywhere or rode a horse if you were lucky to have one. How many peopel had office/desk jobs then as well? Almost every job would be back breaking labor, we're lamenting our lack of exercise but Joe Missouri or Bob Kansas of 1889 spent all day cutting down trees (with a hand saw!)roughing it into something resembling lumber and building a log cabin. Probably sent the wife and youngins walking 5 miles to town and back to buy flour, and by dark she might have got a fire lit and thought about baking a loaf of bread! "ooo, how lucky we are, Bob, we have a loaf of bread and a wall of a house! Someday we'll have a roof and we can tell stories by the fire!". "Honey, let's save our money and someday we'll buy a cow so we can have fresh milk." And in 2009 we have Hershey's chocolate milk that stores at shelf temperature for a year, and our lack of perspective is so myopic we actually pay people to research why it is we're fat. We have far too many standards of living these days (at least the 5-10% of the global population considered the “haves”) that would have been insanely opulent luxuries to people before say, 1930. Refrigeration may be the most important. This, along with the internal combustion engine (trucking) distribution network, gives us a multitude of food choices unimaginable to the rest of human history. Just look at the breakfast cereal aisle, or the cookie shelf at your supermarket.
The automobile also would be a dream to the same people- you walked everywhere or rode a horse if you were lucky to have one.
How many peopel had office/desk jobs then as well? Almost every job would be back breaking labor, we’re lamenting our lack of exercise but Joe Missouri or Bob Kansas of 1889 spent all day cutting down trees (with a hand saw!)roughing it into something resembling lumber and building a log cabin. Probably sent the wife and youngins walking 5 miles to town and back to buy flour, and by dark she might have got a fire lit and thought about baking a loaf of bread!
“ooo, how lucky we are, Bob, we have a loaf of bread and a wall of a house! Someday we’ll have a roof and we can tell stories by the fire!”.
“Honey, let’s save our money and someday we’ll buy a cow so we can have fresh milk.”
And in 2009 we have Hershey’s chocolate milk that stores at shelf temperature for a year, and our lack of perspective is so myopic we actually pay people to research why it is we’re fat.

]]> By: Shawn Conrad http://obrag.org/?p=13312&cpage=1#comment-26892 Shawn Conrad Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:03:32 +0000 http://obrag.org/?p=13312#comment-26892 I try to make all my own food to have some control over what goes in my body. I do agree that I feel thwarted at times because of the handling of meats; fruits, veggies, etc. can possibly have a toxic nature to them. With the new info about plastics and other products we interact with on a daily basis pointing to possible links to weight retention and sometimes even cancer, it is frightening to think that at times I wish I were 200 pounds overweight so I would not care as much. Who are the people that are giving the OK to put questionable additives into our foods and containers? Are these the same people that write the answers in the back of high school texts books and resurrect the war on drugs every six months? Frank, grab your funny hat and magnifying glass. I smell a mystery. I try to make all my own food to have some control over what goes in my body. I do agree that I feel thwarted at times because of the handling of meats; fruits, veggies, etc. can possibly have a toxic nature to them. With the new info about plastics and other products we interact with on a daily basis pointing to possible links to weight retention and sometimes even cancer, it is frightening to think that at times I wish I were 200 pounds overweight so I would not care as much.
Who are the people that are giving the OK to put questionable additives into our foods and containers? Are these the same people that write the answers in the back of high school texts books and resurrect the war on drugs every six months?
Frank, grab your funny hat and magnifying glass. I smell a mystery.

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