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The first time I heard about it was when I was in high school in the 70s. Yeah, I’m old… A teacher was talking to a few of us about the research that was being done trying to farm oceans. It wasn’t part of the curriculum, but a few of us were into the seaweed craze, so she thought we would be interested.

I was confounded. Why would you want to grow food in the ocean?

She explained that as we needed more and more land for housing, less land was available for food. It would come to a point where we cannot feed the world population.

I’m guessing the farming the oceans thing didn’t pan out too well. But there was another solution – lab created foods.

The only problem was – no one would eat them. Not back then anyway. These fake foods had a chemical taste. Because they were cheap and easy to prepare, a lot of lower income households loved them. These foods were soon associated with lower class.

Then, slick marketing agencies went to work bombarding us with the message that these foods were cool. Slowly but surely, they caught on.

It’s not that these foods are any easier to prepare, because in a lot of cases they’re not much faster than real cooking. But now you don’t have to cut up anything, or think much.

And that would be fine, except for one minor detail. Our bodies are not designed to eat chemicals. These fake foods have practically zero nutrition.

The aftermath has been a skyrocketing increase in chronic and fatal diseases, and exorbitant increases in the cost of health care. 62% of bankruptcies in 2009 were because of medical bills.

I could see why these mindless foods would be attractive, if they tasted good. But they don’t.

It’s still lower class food. I’d say its even worse now as they try to make the foods cheaper to produce so they can squeeze out every cent of profit.

But at this point in our history, many people never grew up with real food. People have adapted their tastes and think this is good food.

Those of us who know better are a dying breed.

Even when I’m on my deathbed, you will never get canned ham or jarred spaghetti sauce at my house. I swear it!

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