An early proponent of the germ theory of disease, Kellogg was well ahead of his time in relating intestinal flora and the presence of bacteria in the intestines to health and disease.
Kellogg dedicated the last 30 years of his life to promoting eugenics and segregation.
Pretty much every prominent person of the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s was a eugenicist.
Lindberg, Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Teddy Roosevelt, The Huxleys, Hitler, etc.. We still have a lot of them but they know now to keep their views quiet (folks like Gates).
I’m really not happy to see Robert Foster Kennedy and John P Kennedy Jr. on there, given RFK Jr’s position right now
Every man is his own, but there are also curses handed down from the fathers. At the same time, someone always has the chance to step up and make redemption.
He was against all sex that was not for the purpose of procreation.
He studied the subject, and discovered that there had been some monks who switched to a vegan diet because they found that such a diet lowered sexual desire. The monks wanted to lower sexual desire for obvious reasons.
Kellogg thought this was a great idea because he wanted people in the general population to have less sex.
That is why he promoted vegetarianism.
He created his cereal company because of these views.
We know today that saturated fat is necessary to create all of our hormones, including those that are involved in sexual desire and activity, so that is why vegetarian women often lose their periods and both men and women can become infertile over time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
Yep. There was even a semi-absurdist movie made about him. He was a very odd person. "Crazy", I would say.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001
It’s funny how many of these eugenicists keep getting involved in health and nutrition and economics.
You’d think that advocating eugenics would conflict with wanting to care for our health, but I guess not!
Edit: this is gonna get memed ASAP. Keynes, Gates, Kellogg, Sanger, who else?
Pretty much every prominent person of the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s was a eugenicist.
Lindberg, Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Teddy Roosevelt, The Huxleys, Hitler, etc.. We still have a lot of them but they know now to keep their views quiet (folks like Gates).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_eugenicists
I’m really not happy to see Robert Foster Kennedy and John P Kennedy Jr. on there, given RFK Jr’s position right now
Every man is his own, but there are also curses handed down from the fathers. At the same time, someone always has the chance to step up and make redemption.
Kellogg was extremely weird.
He was against all sex that was not for the purpose of procreation.
He studied the subject, and discovered that there had been some monks who switched to a vegan diet because they found that such a diet lowered sexual desire. The monks wanted to lower sexual desire for obvious reasons.
Kellogg thought this was a great idea because he wanted people in the general population to have less sex.
That is why he promoted vegetarianism.
He created his cereal company because of these views.
We know today that saturated fat is necessary to create all of our hormones, including those that are involved in sexual desire and activity, so that is why vegetarian women often lose their periods and both men and women can become infertile over time.