Re: Ch. 6 - The consumer: a republic of fat
I know. I found that chapter surprising as well. (I was lying in bed, reading, and just handed the book to my husband "Read the first couple pages of this chapter!") Does that mean that there's hope? That we're in the first stages of the next Prohibition-like reversal?
Years ago, I embraced the visual image of a pendulum to help me 'see' the swing of personal & public opinion...The idea that we go from one extreme to the other, before (hopefully) finding a place of balance in the middle. A teen goes from drinking nothing, to bingeing in the 20s, to (hopefully) finding a happy medium of a few social drinks with friends in the 30s, 40s, etc. Corn whiskey glut, Prohibition, now a set of laws and social behaviour that is calmer (a problem on individual levels instead of societal).
Is a 'pendulum swing' possible in this processed food issue, and how would we recognize it? How long would it take?
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