The problem, as I see it is the need for "convenience", "quantity" and "fast", not only in "fast food", but meals that we prepare at home quickly with the help of pre-packaged stuff full of preservatives and chemicals coupled with a lack of hard physical labor (as opposed to exercise at a gym).
How many of you remember a grandparent or perhaps great grandparent who lived on the farm, raised crops, or a large table garden, canned their own fresh vegetables, raised their own CHEMICAL FREE beef, pork, chicken, and hunted wild game. My husbands grandmother was one of these. Until she was in ther mid '80's she had a huge vegetable garden and in her younger day she plowed with a mule. She killed a pig after the first hard freeze and smoked/dried her own hams, bacon, etc. She had chickens for eggs and meat. On the other hand she ate lots of bacon, eggs, drank whole milk, chewed tobacco, and rarely went to the doctor. She lived alone until she was in her mid 80's when she had a stroke. Mae lived a good life - when she had her stroke it was "her time to go", but modern medicine kept her alive for several more years during which time she broke a hip at the rehab facility and was never able to live alone again. She died just shy of her 90th birthday. |