Atlantic: America Fails the Civilization Test
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It's not just that the standard american diet is unhealthy, few would argue that, it's that the "healthy" american diet is also unhealthy. Feeling unhealthy? Well try this canola and mungbean slop! It'll fix you right up.
Southpark actually had a surprisingly good take on this. Eric was angry that the school was moving to plant based meals but then relaxed when he realized it was just replacing mechanically separated meat goo with plant based goo.
As for healthcare, for acute conditions, america's actually pretty good; if you have a ruptured appendix they will fix you right up. But for chronic health conditions; if there isn't a test for it and a pill to give you if you fail the test then they don't give a flying fuck. They just want to turn you into a lifelong pharma customer.
I always find it funny when they go after butter for being bad then will go all crazy about how great their vegetable oil spread is. It's solidified milk fat versus solidified oil fat. At least one of them is good to drink prior to making into butter.
Some coworkers took me to a vegan restaurant once that had a bunch of stuff like that, including some sort of vegetarian "mayonnaise". Eating there was an exercise in finding the most normal/least processed thing on the menu.
On the plus side, a lot of the things declared "unhealthy" such as fattier cuts of pork and chicken end up being cheaper than their lean counterparts. Can get beef fat at the butcher shop for cheap to render for tallow, and it ends up costing about as much as canola oil would.
Vegans don't exist in nature. It's not like they can go paleo. Their whole diet can only exist with a grocery store supplying them food.