Raymond > We could be the first nation that Huxley's Soma has been served to en masse
That is a very thought-provoking, and amusing, piece about voting the way one eats. Of course, it it a variation on a familiar theme which is that one IS what one eats. But, I have never before considered the possibility that eating junk food or GM or additives or anything unnatural, for that matter, messes up one's ability to make decisions in other areas.
I have to say, as far as I know, that most Republican supporters come from rural and, particularly, farming communities and one would have expected that they would have had the best diet, by traditional standards. In fact, it is Democratic supporters, being largely urban, who one would expect to eat junk/additives/chemicals/what-have-you rather than well-balanced meals.
But, perhaps, a balanced-meal is also no good these days because one would then expect rural dwellers to eat the highest amounts of meat and fat (that is certainly so with the farmers in South Africa, where I am). And it is the meat, and especially the fat, which contains every poison or chemical which is given to the livestock or sprayed on the crops they eat. The truth is that it's almost impossible to win these days when it comes to food --- whatever one eats is either shit or contains it!
No wonder, whoever one votes for is just the same. |
