I know people who order expensive flour from Europe to avoid the whatever it is in American grains besides gluten that could have inflammatory effects. Industrial mono-crop agriculture is an efficient way to produce calories, but is it in a healthy form? I would argue usually not, especially when mega-corporations like Monsanto et al. are involved.
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You know, with the elder child involved in the market beef program in 4-h and FFA, I heard a lot of marketing and education-speak about how industrial-ag is feeding the world. I love farming and ranching, but just because something is efficient and meeting a needs volume need doesn't necessarily mean that its holistically good for the entire system. What I find interesting is that agriculture has been as hard hit by identity politics as everything else, and if you espouse an opinion or even just ask questions that run contrary to either side's ideological line, you get lambasted. But I like basted lamb so there!
Sorry, couldn't help myself there.
Also, I have my own personal theory about why our food is the way that it is, and it has a lot to do with corporate monopoly, cradle-to-the-grave forever customers for all their products, and if a person is chronically ill they are a far more profitable entity for such a system. I know everything in this plane is far more nuanced that generalized postulates, but dang it JT, as people who suffer autoimmune dysfunction, we both wouldn't wish that malaise on anyone, yet 60% of humans are afflicted with it and the number is growing, exponentially, so conversations and actions need to be happening at the very least.
!PIZZA