eat what we want

EAT WHAT WE WANT


Today’s article is only marginally related to survivalism. Get over it. Nothing earth shattering occurred to me and I thought this was an amusing concept. And we all know how important it is to amuse me so I don’t get all grumpy and irritable and say hateful things I might regret later. Besides, you got a firearm article yesterday so you shouldn’t be needing much of a Doomer fix right away.

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I’m not old enough to remember first hand, but in the by gone glorious yesteryear of the “Leave It To Beaver” era, it seems that a rather different concept of nutrition was taught to innocent school children. Of course, they also got disease laden polio inoculations as their dad was exposed to radiation experiments in the military so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the ever-centralizing federal government was abusing the trust of its citizens. You see little clips about commercials where doctors are smoking cigarettes, and then they include some chirpy little grade school teacher with those torpedo bras teaching her chargers to indulge in oodles and gobs of meat and other protein of animal origin. Those showing the clips are trying to showcase how ignorant our grandparents were and how enlightened we are now. Of course, I draw a different conclusion which will only surprise you if you are a new loyal minion and haven’t quite got the fact that I’m a tad paranoid.

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Are you surprised that schools are propaganda machines? Are you surprised that the money interests have something to say about the curriculum? School has always been about drilling a strict schedule into kids fresh off the farm. In an agricultural society, time was measured in seasons. In the industrial economy, time was compressed into a daily factory shift. The bell rings, you arrive. The bell rings, you take lunch. The bell rings, you leave. The school rhythm matched the factory. Later, you had shop class to help you fit into the factory system. And you had free, compulsory drivers education to get you behind your own automobile at the time where Detroit was much of the economy. Notice how drivers ed is now being privatized and charged a fee for? The economy no longer is “driven” by autos. No need to subsidize new drivers. Anyway, back in the fifties/sixties, food had yet to centralize on the scale it is now. It was still very much a family farm, more localized endeavor. Animals still fertilized the ground in a symbiotic relationship with crops rather than the food factories they have now where dung is a pollutant. Young bodies growing fast were advised that animal protein was super duper for you. I don’t know if any particular group benefited from this teaching, but I can guess that someone is from changing over to a vegetable based diet like we are pushing now.

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“Diet For A Small Planet” is a great book and has merit, but I still believe that a diet high in meat is healthy for you. If you need protein, and an eight ounce piece of meat gives you as much as several pounds of beans and grains, isn’t your body working a lot less to get its nutrients? Isn’t that a good thing? Yes, you need whole grains. But I think the current pyramid advocating a mostly grain/legume diet is more a reaction to scarcity and over population than it is good science. I can think of a few mega-corporations that benefit from the future where meat is a luxury and corn and soy are much more expensive and used by most for the bulk of their calories. Why sell your bio-engineered Franken seed to farmers to feed cows when it can go directly to the dinner table and have a lot more of a mark-up and profit? Plus, it fits in with the general theme of gradually scaling back peoples expectations.

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Yes, I preach a grain and bean survival stash. Not because it is the best diet but because it is the cheapest way to get a bare bones diet. It will keep you alive in reasonable health. It isn’t close to perfect however. No compromise ever is. Not believing everything the government tells you should include disbelief over their claims of nutrition. Consider this. Hospitals, at least half funded by the Federal government indirectly, hire nutritionists to plan meals. They put corn under vegetables. Corn is a grain. This is how much these dumb asses know about food.

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I forgot to link the mention yesterday of the fiction series “Sharpe”, which I love for the black powder weapons tactics. There you go.