You know that saying, ignorance is bliss? Sometimes that’s how I feel about our food system in the US. Maybe I should stop reading things like Michael Pollan. Or looking at food labels in the grocery store. Maybe I should just put my head down and eat according to that stupid food pyramid.
How have we as Americans become so disconnected from our food that we think the government should tell us how to eat? Seriously, people! We resist government interventions in every other arena of our lives, but we allow the FDA to tell how much and what kinds of foods to eat?
They say it will make us healthier if we follow that pyramid. Then why are more people fatter every day? Obesity is now an epidemic, along with diseases like type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
And at what point did we begin to think that some company should cook for us or prepare our food? I understand the idea of convenience foods. Yes, my kids have had their share of boxed macaroni and cheese. But why would we serve that boxed food alongside a grocery store chicken nugget? Have you looked at the ingredients? It’s not chicken, bread crumbs and egg wash, I can tell you that much. But that’s all it needs to be so what is all that other stuff in there?
Who is going to fix this system? And does anyone else even care that it’s broken?
