It would be better for the government if Kennedy wasn’t pushing healthy food. Healthy food leads to healthier people and longer lives. The government could reduce its Social Security and Medicare liabilities if people just continued to eat crap and didn’t live so long. From Jenna McCarthy at jennasside.rocks:
Big Additive is apoplectic; experts are concerned; your grandma is vindicated.
In a shocking development that’s left cereal mascots sweating through their marshmallow suits, the U.S. government has released new dietary guidelines that—brace yourselves—recommend eating actual food.
Not food-like substances. Not “fortified” rainbow pellets shaped like horseshoes. Not former-foods stripped of anything resembling nutrition or flavor or reengineered to somehow be we-promise-you-healthier than what the Divine Chef designed.
On the new menu: Meat. Dairy. Fats. Fruits. Vegetables. Nuts. Olives. Avocados. The kind of stuff humans accidentally survived on for millennia before being told that breakfast should be sponsored by General Mills.
Understandably, chaos ensued.
After all, even though it’s how our grandparents and their grandparents and their grandparents ate, it’s also the exact opposite of the advice America’s been given for more than half a century. As a young adult learning to feed myself, I was trained on the Food Guide Pyramid—which recommended six to eleven servings of bread, cereal, rice or pasta a day. Every single day. (I don’t think I currently eat that in a month.) If you had any room left after carb-loading your weight in processed crap, you were free to enjoy some scrambled egg whites and maybe a nice cup of nonfat yogurt.
Remember all the food processing plants that went up in smoke under Jo Jo Brandon of the CPUSA (D)?
Kulak Acres Farms remembers.