UnhappyMeals

Context : EatFoodNotTooMuchMostlyPlants

Think this must have been a blog or site back in the day.

This is an interesting quote.

The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and — ahem — journalism, three parties that stand to gain much from widespread confusion surrounding what is, after all, the most elemental question an omnivore confronts. Humans deciding what to eat without expert help — something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees — is seriously unprofitable if you’re a food company, distinctly risky if you’re a nutritionist and just plain boring if you’re a newspaper editor or journalist. (Or, for that matter, an eater. Who wants to hear, yet again, ”Eat more fruits and vegetables”?) And so, like a large gray fog, a great Conspiracy of Confusion has gathered around the simplest questions of nutrition — much to the advantage of everybody involved. Except perhaps the ostensible beneficiary of all this nutritional expertise and advice: us, and our health and happiness as eaters.

A good example of NetoCracy using InformationOverload

The result of this huge CloudOfUnknowing is that people are in a state of uncertainty and doubt, liable to doubt their capacity to make decisions and be led by the aggro-industrial-journalistic complex.