Too crazy, was just talking about this with my wife earlier today as we got fast food lol. The Matrix hits on food several times. People programmed to eat food because it "tastes good" and is desirable, but terrible for them. The average American today is a tub of lard compared to say, the 1950s. And yet at the same time we have seemingly super human athletic elites like history has never seen. It's all due to genetically modified food and processed food. Some positive effects, but seemingly mostly negative effects. South Park had a fantastic episode with the "goo man" parody of There Will Be Blood and the impossible meat crazes. "So I can make my Shitty Chicken INCREDIBLE Shitty Chicken?" Cartman ironically hits in the point at the end....[paraphrase] "So this plant based food is processed and just as shitty as the processed food I liked but you wanted to replace with other shitty processed food because you thought it was healthier?" GREAT episode.
Another interesting thing about food in media, the Fast Food Wars referenced in Demolition Man... only Taco Bell came out alive and all restaurants became Taco Bell. Think of all the chains already? Massive corporations. All selling slightly different versions of the same shit food. But we keep eating it. I'm in decent shape, but gotta indulge every once in a while! Worker shortages everywhere in fast food. Taco Bell offering $15/hr and still nobody working. What if that collapses the industry, or at least forces consolidation? Honestly, humanity survives with just one burger chain... yay for capitalism, but do we really need McDs, BK, Wendy's, Carl's Jr, Hardees, In&Out, Sonic, Burgerville etc??? All the same shit food.
Too crazy, was just talking about this with my wife earlier today as we got fast food lol. The Matrix hits on food several times. People programmed to eat food because it "tastes good" and is desirable, but terrible for them. The average American today is a tub of lard compared to say, the 1950s. And yet at the same time we have seemingly super human athletic elites like history has never seen. It's all due to genetically modified food and processed food. Some positive effects, but seemingly mostly negative effects. South Park had a fantastic episode with the "goo man" parody of There Will Be Blood and the impossible meat crazes. "So I can make my Shitty Chicken INCREDIBLE Shitty Chicken?" Cartman ironically hits in the point at the end....[paraphrase] "So this plant based food is processed and just as shitty as the processed food I liked but you wanted to replace with other shitty processed food because you thought it was healthier?" GREAT episode.
Another interesting thing about food in media, the Fast Food Wars referenced in Demolition Man... only Taco Bell came out alive and all restaurants became Taco Bell. Think of all the chains already? Massive corporations. All selling slightly different versions of the same shit food. But we keep eating it. I'm in decent shape, but gotta indulge every once in a while! Worker shortages everywhere in fast food. Taco Bell offering $15/hr and still nobody working. What if that collapses the industry, or at least forces consolidation? Honestly, humanity survives with just one burger chain... yay for capitalism, but do we really need McDs, BK, Wendy's, Carl's Jr, Hardees, In&Out, Sonic, Burgerville etc??? All the same shit food.