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Your entire argument is bogus in the context of this story. It has nothing to do with "caring more about people close to them". The manufacturing and consumpti
by oska 8y ago
Your entire argument is bogus in the context of this story. It has nothing to do with "caring more about people close to them".
The manufacturing and consumption of lard in the U.S. is a technology/tradition inherited from the parts of the world Americans emigrated from. And the development of the hydrogenation process and its implementation as a consumable product (replacing lard) was shared between Europe and the US. (Reference is made to this in the article). Thus the experience in Europe (and elsewhere) is directly relevant to the topic under discussion and comments from non-Americans on the situation in their countries are also directly relevant.
- true_religion 8y agoI don't see why you can't have similar outcomes from different causes when a social circumstance is involved. What killed lard in Europe? Different things. Probably even different things per country if you get very specific about it. Merely exploring only American causes to an American result, doesn't make the article bogus and that criticism is what everyone is responding to because the OP said: > I often see Americans attempting to explain why things happen in their country by pointing to domestic events, with said events failing to account for an identical thing happening all over the world.