Healthy Living in an Unhealthy World

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When I was a young woman, unfortunately it was the absolute worst time to come to maturity in the U.S. It was the 60s and I, like so many college-aged students at the time, was pressured to conform to the politically "correct" stance against the Vietnam War, against the capitalistic pigs who were our own parents paying for our college educations, and against anything that was part of mainstream America. That included pressure to conform to certain diets and food choices. To be a vegetarian then was to be fighting the good fight against a corrupt society that was "poisoning" us all with processed foods, animal products and cruel meat processing. I played with some macro-biotic recipes and since I loved rice naturally, it was temporarily interesting. I never liked meat much anyway, so I didn't find it hard to find that anti-meat-eating propaganda had some merit. But what all the pressure really did to me was to make me become somewhat a hermit. The 60s, I think, began the real fascist style of behavior control which is very much alive and well in the Vegan community and in the PETA crowd. I detested it then and I detest it now. Group think, in regard to diet and food is like any other sort of social intimidation. It's 99% of the time just plain misguided and wrong. And it certainly isn't about food. It's about politics and control, nothing more.