Let’s consider how rich people have to be nowadays to be as poor as my Depression Era grandparents were: a stay-at-home-mom cooking real food from scratch, plus raising 4, 6, 8 kids.
The original denigration of women was the 1960’s denigration of women’s work: primarily cooking & childrearing.
Now most people are trapped in a self-defeating lifestyle: Mom & Dad both working f/t outside the home, and the whole family (just 1.6 kids) eating processed food 24/7/365.
My wife & I found our way out - it was a painful transition, which can be taught & learned 👍🙂 - but I don’t see how the West as a whole will dig itself out of this trap 😔
The way out is to reject 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism.” But economically speaking, now is not a good time 😔 Clearly we’ve been in a recession since … since before my GenX entered the workforce 😡, but maybe we’re already in a major depression. After all, what would a depression look like in the 21st century?!?! It wouldn’t look like hobos hopping train cars, right?
Maybe it would look like … I dunno … like the Great Reset?!?! 😡
Maybe a depression would look like all the moms chained to the corporate loom, too poor to reproduce beyond 1.6 kids, and too poor of mind & spirit - too tired & depressed! - to make cooking real food from scratch the priority.
I'm a registered dietitian and my very first job was as a food service director in a small nursing home. We were so small, that I ended up cooking meals. I was able to hire some staff but some of those people had no cooking skills. I know the cafeteria manager in my kids elementary school had no food service/culinary experience. Convenience foods and those "big food" companies mean nursing home pts now get RTE heat and serve foods. We have lost those skills as a society. As a result, we really on those food companies. I don't know the answer, but it's definitely a problem.
Let’s consider how rich people have to be nowadays to be as poor as my Depression Era grandparents were: a stay-at-home-mom cooking real food from scratch, plus raising 4, 6, 8 kids.
The original denigration of women was the 1960’s denigration of women’s work: primarily cooking & childrearing.
Now most people are trapped in a self-defeating lifestyle: Mom & Dad both working f/t outside the home, and the whole family (just 1.6 kids) eating processed food 24/7/365.
My wife & I found our way out - it was a painful transition, which can be taught & learned 👍🙂 - but I don’t see how the West as a whole will dig itself out of this trap 😔
The way out is to reject 1960’s style 2nd-wave “feminism.” But economically speaking, now is not a good time 😔 Clearly we’ve been in a recession since … since before my GenX entered the workforce 😡, but maybe we’re already in a major depression. After all, what would a depression look like in the 21st century?!?! It wouldn’t look like hobos hopping train cars, right?
Maybe it would look like … I dunno … like the Great Reset?!?! 😡
Maybe a depression would look like all the moms chained to the corporate loom, too poor to reproduce beyond 1.6 kids, and too poor of mind & spirit - too tired & depressed! - to make cooking real food from scratch the priority.
I'm a registered dietitian and my very first job was as a food service director in a small nursing home. We were so small, that I ended up cooking meals. I was able to hire some staff but some of those people had no cooking skills. I know the cafeteria manager in my kids elementary school had no food service/culinary experience. Convenience foods and those "big food" companies mean nursing home pts now get RTE heat and serve foods. We have lost those skills as a society. As a result, we really on those food companies. I don't know the answer, but it's definitely a problem.
Food is a very effective weapon, look whats happening in Gaza .
Many people are obese but are still malnourished because of the ways you have so clearly outlined in this article.
Have you read Fiat Food ? It is an excellent read about the take over of the American food system and the lies it’s based on.
No, that’s an excellent suggestion, thanks. I’ll put it on the to-read list right away,
Thanks for this excellent article