Diet for a Capitalist America

In this essay, the author

• Analyzes how john robbins' "diet for a new america" emphasizes the importance of healthier, more environmentally conscious diets. he exposes and tenaciously documents hidden facts to convince even stubborn anti-vegetarians to take seriously the effects of their choices.
• Analyzes how the book "diet for a new america" creates an utopian vision of how people could sustain themselves by eating grains and vegetables and conscientiously drifting away from our more consumptive and carnivorous ways.
• Analyzes the reality of the mocking 'diet for a capitalist america' as an industrial diet created by our industrial world.
• Explains that the natural diet, the diet that we evolved eating, is the healthiest diet for the human animal. since then, society has moved from feudal agrarian regionally oriented society to an industrial technical society.
• Explains that today's modern diet does not always come directly from our environment. exotic foods like sugar, tropical papayas, and mangos are on their way to becoming staples in the mass diet.
• Explains that the stark, repetitive diet of colonial america began to slowly change in the nineteenth century as growing urban markets became dependent upon food produced by others and technological innovation worked its miracle on the american food system.
• Argues that food cannot be grown in an industrial city because space is limited and land is sparce. the 'industrial diet' displaces whole foods and removes us from the diet that humans evolved with.
• Opines that a fairly natural diet can be arranged in the industrial west, but it takes informed choice, costs more, is slow to prepare, and is increasingly seen as 'odd'
• Explains that children in modern-american culture are subjected to eating atrocities because they aren't properly cared for by their parents. their eating habits are a product of their lifestyle.
• Explains that they were born into a middle-class italian-american family, "old-fashion" and influenced by italian tradition.
• Explains that outside of our capitalist culture, there are many cultural lifestyles, which pride themselves on eating healthy food.
• Analyzes how a wealthy industrial/technical country such as america eats the furthest away from the 'human natural' diet.
• Argues that consumers' choices are directly determined by the social and economic forces at play within capitalism.
• Argues that the forces of capitalism are a "diseasestablishment," the implications of conspiracy lurk within this culture of capital.
• Compares the so-called "affluent" diet of today with the diet that fueled human evolution.
• Analyzes how capitalism's changes in our diet are significant, marking the greater changes of our lifestyles.