Processed food and how it really fucked us all up.
Before you get all happy, this is not a pro organic must eat a chicken who was allowed to dance about in the dirt eating seeds and worms before being butchered thread. Nope this is an issue about how processed foods really fucked up the youth. Thinking back not that long ago and looking through history and assorted older cookbooks - along with the supermarket shelves and onslaught of commercials for anti-bacterial toilet paper. We did not always used to be afraid of some germs and bacteria.
People had no issue letting raw meat sit in pure fat in the pantry as a form of storage. Home canning did not require a sterile laboratory and was entirely doable in houses with dirt floors and fireplaces for both heat and the stove. Using a wooden cutting board for your poultry, your beef, wild game, pork, and then products you were to eat raw was perfectly normal. If there was some chicken crap on some egg shells, you wiped it off and did not freak out doing some icky dance around the kitchen before calling your lawyers to sue somebody. Food did not need to be cooked into oblivion to eat it, I mean if some chicken had a spot of red inside you would not rush to the bathroom to try and force yourself to puke. It was not killing people left and right and people were not getting sick more often.
Then along came a period in time when everything was available in sterile cans, foods came to you stuck in a deep freeze that even future archaeologists would be proud of. Foods that should be able to sit on a shelf or in your pantry for a lifetime. This makes me think they did a fantastic job of scaring the living shit out of our parents. Soon everything had to be cooked until it all looked the same. If you did not spray every surface in your home with some anti-bacterial spray, soap, or something else you obviously were a bad parent and were placing your kids at risk. Forget the fact that many such bacteria are good for you and it also could make the bad ones even that much more bad.
Now it seems we have an outbreak of not only people getting off the wall diseases and such, it appears everyone is somehow allergic to something or other. Think back a bit and ask yourself, when you were younger (assuming your at least in your 30's), how often did you run into or hear of a kid with an allergy to something other than the occasional bee sting or cat? Today it seems like most of the younger population of America is allergic to at least a handful of foods and kids get sent places with notes on what not to feed them.
I can not be positive they are both linked but it seems like one hell of a coincidence to me. I do not doubt that the allergies are real in some instances, though I do still think many people do make up some of them because they just do not like certain things or it sounds good. I also am pretty sure that peoples fear of everything being super clean and using crazy cleansing agents everywhere they go is directly associated with it all starting with processed foods. They have found a way to influence entire generations to become paranoid, and very possibly the health of people.
Yes I am fully aware this has nothing to do with the adult business. File it in the fucking around area. I wanted to rant and could do little else while I was uploading a file, which is now only a little over 34% done.
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