Yeah Michael Moore, Please Lecture Us on Nutrition

[redsamurai]

and you beleived him iggs?

What happened is that one time somebody got their hands on a bunch of food stamps so they decided to cash em all in at once and get over the top expensive food. Your buddy saw this and, as so many people seem to do nowadays, extrapolate that behavior over the entire food stamp using population. In no way shape or form can you buy lobster weekly on food stamps. Wellfare fraud is the norm in this country so there are certainly people who are getting food stamps but don't actually qualify, so they can "augment" their food purchases on taxpayer dime. This is no way means that a person who "solely subsists" on food stamps can buy lobster all the time. He can maybe starve for a week then cash it all in at once, but whatever. Point is that people who aren't even on food stamps can't afford to shop at health food stores cause as of right now, demand is high and supply is low. This is changing....the food structure is going to slowly decentralize over the next 20 or so years, hopefully sooner, but as that happens you'll see "real" food becoming less expensive.

 

[hurricane]

Michael Moore is an idiot...

end of story

 

[redsamurai]

<sigh>

The problem isn't "fast food"...it's the centralization of the food business of which fast food chains are an aggregate. Fast food can be fast food because they don't have to barely cook anything...they just warm up shit that's been pre cooked and/or dehydrated by a centralized source. The reason this centralization happened is because some people figured out that they could make food "cheaper" by doing so. This was at a time when people had no fucking clue or apparent brains that they couldn't understand the future ramifications of their actions. Food was food to these idiots. Well now, some of at least, understand that food isn't food. Organic matter doesn't mean nutrition. Plenty of what we eat is just organic matter that is devoid of nutrition but qualifies technically as food. What people like you don't understand is that this is a "tax" on the human system. The more of this shit you eat, the less your body is doing important things like tissue repair and balancing of hormones etc, etc, etc. It takes resources to digest this nonsense...and we're not getting nearly enough out of it to counteract the resources it took simply to digest the shit. This is why we slowly deterioate.

This is why we're not living well past 100....it's because the entire food structure from beginning to end has been completely compromised. All fruits and vegetables, no matter if they're grown organically or not, have had their nutrional profile cut in half as far as can be proven....but more than likely more than that because data only goes back to the 40's and 50's. We've simply overfarmed the land and some of it ain't comin back no matter how many monsanto or dupont chemicals we throw at it.

oh and about the banning of fast food not having an effect.....dead wrong. The former head of the CDC wrote a book about how the food industry knowingly and purposefully manipulates the salt, fat and sugar content of it's food in order to mimick opiates like heroin. Salt, fat and sugar in the right frequencies can hit the same nueral pathways that heroin does....they spend billions researching this. It's not just fast food either....they may have been the ones that did the most research on this, but practically the entire chain restaurant business is in on this. Fridays' get a new item on it's menu, that item was tested at HQ for it's addictive nature and in for some items they get precooked in just the right way before they get shipped out to the restaurants, who then dip it into another layer of fat and then serve it up like they just cooked it fresh.

Are you really naive enough to believe that if fast food went away, everyone would start eating food you've deemed healthy?

Here's a newsflash: If fast food was 100% banned tomorrow, people's waistlines wouldn't shrink an inch. A person seeking-out high-calorie junk food is going to find and eat it. A person seeking-out healthy food is going to similarly find and eat it.

 

[mrplunkey]

<sigh>

The problem isn't "fast food"...it's the centralization of the food business of which fast food chains are an aggregate. Fast food can be fast food because they don't have to barely cook anything...they just warm up shit that's been pre cooked and/or dehydrated by a centralized source. The reason this centralization happened is because some people figured out that they could make food "cheaper" by doing so. This was at a time when people had no fucking clue or apparent brains that they couldn't understand the future ramifications of their actions. Food was food to these idiots. Well now, some of at least, understand that food isn't food. Organic matter doesn't mean nutrition. Plenty of what we eat is just organic matter that is devoid of nutrition but qualifies technically as food. What people like you don't understand is that this is a "tax" on the human system. The more of this shit you eat, the less your body is doing important things like tissue repair and balancing of hormones etc, etc, etc. It takes resources to digest this nonsense...and we're not getting nearly enough out of it to counteract the resources it took simply to digest the shit. This is why we slowly deterioate.

This is why we're not living well past 100....it's because the entire food structure from beginning to end has been completely compromised. All fruits and vegetables, no matter if they're grown organically or not, have had their nutrional profile cut in half as far as can be proven....but more than likely more than that because data only goes back to the 40's and 50's. We've simply overfarmed the land and some of it ain't comin back no matter how many monsanto or dupont chemicals we throw at it.

oh and about the banning of fast food not having an effect.....dead wrong. The former head of the CDC wrote a book about how the food industry knowingly and purposefully manipulates the salt, fat and sugar content of it's food in order to mimick opiates like heroin. Salt, fat and sugar in the right frequencies can hit the same nueral pathways that heroin does....they spend billions researching this. It's not just fast food either....they may have been the ones that did the most research on this, but practically the entire chain restaurant business is in on this. Fridays' get a new item on it's menu, that item was tested at HQ for it's addictive nature and in for some items they get precooked in just the right way before they get shipped out to the restaurants, who then dip it into another layer of fat and then serve it up like they just cooked it fresh.

Are you suggesting that businesses optimize their products to what their customers want in the name of profits???

Dear God, I sure hope this horrible practice doesn't catch-on in other industries.

I bet we wouldn't have to worry about things like this if we'd just plan our economy centrally.

 

[mrplunkey]

And LOL about "not living well past 100". Want to know what the average life expectancy was back in 1900 when all that locally-grown food was still so plentiful? 47.3 years.

So congratulations. You've managed to successfully romanticize a period where people were dropping dead from botulism and starving to death from failed crops at the same time.

I guess technological progress isn't that terrible after all.

 

[mrplunkey]

And LOL about "not living well past 100". Want to know what the average life expectancy was back in 1900 when all that locally-grown food was still so plentiful? 47.3 years.

So congratulations. You've managed to successfully romanticize a period where people were dropping dead from botulism and starving to death from failed crops at the same time.

I guess technological progress isn't that terrible after all.

 

[bakemeacookie]

He's got hundreds of millions of fuck-you money. So does Al hypocrite Gore - so unfortunately, he's got a lot of losers that listen to him.

America is full of idiots. You know my saying ("saying it again kids!").

c

 

[javaguru]

Dead yet? I've got a Royale with cheese I could stuff down his gob.

Nice Pulp Fiction reference nerd.

 

[BlueBird]

Nice Pulp Fiction reference nerd.

 

[kx250rider]

It feels good to read that so many bros are smart enough to see through Moore's propaganda films, and his crazy ideas. I'll never understand how it's McDonalds' fault if someone is fat because they choose to eat burgers and fries.

Anyone who needs to find somebody else to blame for everything they personally choose to do wrong, is a weak coward.

Charles