Maggie's Farm

"The USDA claims that food choices are not made in a “purely rational manner,” but are influenced by food manufacturers and retailers."

That would be true about all our choices in a free market. Thanks to the government I dicovered this morning when I ordered breakfast at a restaurant that my meal was just over 2000 calories. Was my breakfast choice "rational"? I'm convinced that the government and the various special interest groups trying to tell us what to eat are not rational either. What is the "right" meal? What food shouldn't I eat? When ever someone tells me McDonald's is junk food I ask them to tell me exactly what part of the hamburger is bad for me. The hamburger patty? The bread? The cheese? what, exactly? Of course they cannot it really comes down to either a bias against fast food or they heard it was bad from someone with a bias against fast food and they simply aren't smart enough to ask why or understand it if they were told why. The simple fact is the experts don't agree on what, exactly, is "good" for you and what, exactly, is bad for you.

I guess there are people who could eat all that. But assume for a moment that you sat down to eat it and like most of us you ate perhaps 1/8th of it. Where is the harm? Even if you could eat 1/4th of it, where is the harm? Would it be the tomato or the chilli that would do some kind of harm to your body or health? Maybe a hamburger patty or two or even the bacon. But yet that is what people eat and they eat food, good food and bad food, for years and years. There is little to no evidence that not eating hamburger patties or bacon will make you live longer? I am concerned about the onion though...