I’m not sure if any country has successfully been able to withstand the pressures of the processed food industry once it has entered their country. At least, I couldn’t find any examples in my research.
The only countries that potentially could make quick resolutions are those that have high levels of state power over personal freedoms, like China. But so far that hasn’t happened yet.
Places like the US will likely continue to suffer from chronic disease in the short-to-medium term (~10-50 years) due to its emphasis on personal freedom to be able to deteriorate one’s health.
I’m not sure “we’re super dumb as [a] society” so much as we’re gridlocked by special interest groups. We were able to take action against the tobacco industry because nobody has to smoke. But everyone’s gotta eat.
Depends on what we call super-dumb—or what where we draw the system borders of “society”. I include the special interest groups as part of our society; and are the small wheel in it gearing us towards the ‘dumb’ outcome in the aggregate. But yes, the problem is simply not trivial, smart/dumb is too relative, so my term was not useful (just expressing my frustration with our policies & thinking, that your nice post reminded me of)
I’m not sure if any country has successfully been able to withstand the pressures of the processed food industry once it has entered their country. At least, I couldn’t find any examples in my research.
The only countries that potentially could make quick resolutions are those that have high levels of state power over personal freedoms, like China. But so far that hasn’t happened yet.
Places like the US will likely continue to suffer from chronic disease in the short-to-medium term (~10-50 years) due to its emphasis on personal freedom to be able to deteriorate one’s health.
I’m not sure “we’re super dumb as [a] society” so much as we’re gridlocked by special interest groups. We were able to take action against the tobacco industry because nobody has to smoke. But everyone’s gotta eat.
Depends on what we call super-dumb—or what where we draw the system borders of “society”. I include the special interest groups as part of our society; and are the small wheel in it gearing us towards the ‘dumb’ outcome in the aggregate. But yes, the problem is simply not trivial, smart/dumb is too relative, so my term was not useful (just expressing my frustration with our policies & thinking, that your nice post reminded me of)