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I think that’s debatable. France for example goes to great lengths to preserve local food culture and the protection of locally produced heirloom foods. The US
by erikpukinskis 7y ago
I think that’s debatable. France for example goes to great lengths to preserve local food culture and the protection of locally produced heirloom foods.
The US government couldn’t care less. If everyone decided to eat only TV dinners and shelf stable snacks that would be A-OK, even desirable because that kind of thing leads to GDP growth. France would never allow it.
US governments are borderline contemptuous of tradition, and tend to court radical reinventions of basic needs. That leads to people getting hurt, but is great for the economy.
- filoleg 7y ago>If everyone decided to eat only TV dinners and shelf stable snacks that would be A-OK >France would never allow it. While I do not support eating unhealthy foods like that on a regular basis at all (I have some sort of instinctive repulsion towards that), I do support allowing adults to have the freedom to make their own choices regarding what they eat.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoBy and large, American grocers don’t sell food like that, so we don’t really have the choice. In the U.S. no one is going to force you to buy anything, but no one will save you when your market disappears. It’s a kind of freedom, but it’s not “more choice”. It’s often less choice.