Not Junk Science: Stuffed Americans Starving

Letter to Ephesians: A Fox op ed was a timely reminder of what we all already knew: Filthy rich & filthy poor Americans alike are eating more junk food than not. Maybe that helps explain the idiocy we’re reading in the media. So, can USA’s daunted agricultural know how save us from our gluttony?

Author of the piece, Jim Pillen, hit the nail on the head in summarizing Americans’ culinary dilemma: “Tragic, but no longer surprising: The US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released a report this month showing that ultra-processed foods make up more than half of the calories consumed by the majority of Americans. This truly is what ‘starving in the midst of plenty looks like.” The real tragedy, he noted, is that “Our farmers & ranchers grow enough high-quality food to feed the world. Yet, instead of filling our plates with real stuff, our country of 340 million has allowed less-than-nutritious food & sugary drinks to become the mainstay of the American diet.”

I admit that I, too, am getting sick of the sickening food being relentlessly hyped by PR agencies, their fast food & snacks clienteles & the Me Too Generation’s cultural blow hards. Just walk through any “grocery” store & fight your way past the endless aisles devoted to sodas, beers, chips, breads, donuts, cakes, pies, sugared cereals, cold cuts, frozen meats-poultry-fish-veggies crapola, ya da, ya da. At one popular grocer near me, I swear at least 75% of everything for sale was housed in refrigerated casings to keep them all from turning into mold. Then, go to one of those “convenience” stores, in which NOT A SINGLE ITEM FOR SALE IS ANYTHING BUT ULTRA- PROCESSED. Time to wake up?

Davd Soul