Katy passed this link on to me – it’s long but worth a read. All sorts of stuff – the need for humility in science, the hijacking of science by politics and the hijacking of politics by money, the problems of reductionism rather than holism, wisdom in traditions: Unhappy Meals.
I really hope that when our descendants look back in the future, they will see that our current consumption mania (the obesity kind and the environmental kind) was just a blip that ended when we came to our senses and realised that our great-grandparents knew more than we do.
That is a great essay, thanks for sharing it! Did you watch The Truth About Food last night? A program that managed to really make me cross with its ridiculous comparisons of food that was so called better or worse for us, based almost solely on the fat content, blaming poor packaging, poor labelling, poor direction from the government. I think the first line of the essay sums it up perfectly. Why is its sentiment so tricky to pass on?
Liked this bit “… a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.”