Wonder why animals in the wild eat raw and go straight for the good stuff without any complexity? Predators will seek the liver and herbivores will go for the most nutritious roots and fruits or plants.
Omnivores will do a little of both. So why did Humanity invent the strangest ways to mix ingredients together? Maybe fire enabled us to process meat faster and better, but all the other techniques do little to improve the nutrition of food and even destroy precious nutrients.
An expert on “nutrition” once said the field is at the mercy of special interest that will extrapolate a shred of a shred of evidence and magnify it to pure propaganda fiction. The anti-fat craze and resulting diabetes 2 and obesity epidemic due to “sugar everywhere to make fat free foods taste good” is a good example.
The reality is food are only 3 things: Cabs, proteins and fats. That’s it. Nothing else besides the vitamins and minerals we also need like salt.
Only distortion of those basic necessities and the masking of the fact our needs are really simple and millions of years of evolutionary adaptation made us perfectly suited to extract all we need from a few basic sources created this thing we call “cooking”.
In fact complex dishes and all that crap can be traced to the rich seeking status symbols and trying to make themselves look particular and different in the last few hundred years.
Think about it… throughout the ages only a tiny fraction of the population ever indulged in what we can call a food perversion. Kings and queens and the nobility went on to be afflicted by a slew of diseases we would recognize today as more generalized i.e obesity, heart disease and diabetes, not to mention the associated cancers.
The majority of our species was eating simple: The same few ingredients made simply and extracted locally.
For me personally I have been living on a diet of a few basic raw foods for years without any ill effects and in fact feel younger, better and stronger.
The fallacy of saying healthy ingredients don’t taste as good falls apart when we feel a bit hungry, which is what most of us always felt for eons until the advent of industrial food production, fast food and the Food Inc. cabale controlling the food supply for its selfish profit seeking.
Countless news and media outlets, starting with those dedicated food channels, create the impression we need to engineer complex and frankly idiotic plates, as if crossing the street involved going around the world.
A true Revolutionary and Minimalist like I am, abiding by waste not want not will be disgusted by such endless status quo of needless and useless complexity in a world where we need to recognize what our simple needs are.
Maslow’s hierarchy of need do not include a maze of time and resources wastage to go from A to B in our lives. It is time to recognize how special interests and selfish greed concentrates wealth to the few at the cost of the loss to many of their health and well being.
Critical thinking and questioning established norms starts with a simpler diet where we seek quality sustainable raw ingredients free of processing and exploitation of resources.
A planet with billions of people will not thrive as long as the habits of the rich few try to be spread to everyone at the cost of the Environment and the rest of living beings that share this planet with us.