Asking people to view food as fuel is akin to asking people to view sex as for procreation. Seems very Puritanical to view the pleasure we receive from food as

Asking people to view food as fuel is akin to asking people to view sex as for procreation. Seems very Puritanical to view the pleasure we receive from food as a problem or distraction. People like to eat. It feels good. There is of course a lot of ignorance about food (and even if you aren’t ignorant it’s still easy to willfully make bad choices) but that doesn’t mean we should dehumanize it. Just like with sex, we should study it and develop a healthy culture for it that balances pleasure and what’s good for us. Also, I’m somewhat convinced myself that the reason poor people tend to be very fat is that food for them provides way more bang-per-buck than anything else at certain income levels. Yeah you may not be able to afford a car or a nice place to live, or healthcare, or education for your kids, but goddamn you can eat some delicious food for relatively cheap. It sucks that poor people get hit hardest by obesity and almost nobody wants to be fat... but at the same time, I feel like trying to decouple food from pleasure would mean depriving poor people of one of the few joys they can afford