Woke Nutrition: A Prescription For Disaster
I recently listened to a TrumpetDaily radio show with host Stephen Flurry. Really good stuff if you’re interested in how politics affect current world events. But what I want to focus on is a 4 minute section titled “Woke Nutrition: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Is Now Healthier Than Eggs.”
I was struck by how much of this subject I had actually read about in the last few months alone. Flurry talks about how we’re told to eat less beef to save the world. It’s an important point to note because the U.S. government is changing the definition of nutrition, not because it will better our health, but because it will supposedly save the environment.
Flurry also points out a particularly squalid point John Kerry, (Special Presidential Envoy for Climate) made at the recent World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Kerry characterized efforts to combat climate change this way:
"When you start to think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we — a select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives — are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet. I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about ‘saving the planet.’"
It’s fairly delusional to think you’re a select group of people because you’re in the process of tearing down the lives and economies of entire nations to further your own ambitions.
Focus on that point because that’s where Flurry says things go off the rails. He points to the Tufts Food Compass, which uses a quantitative ranking algorithm across nine domains to rank foods from 1 to 100. It says you should aim for foods with a score of 80 and above, and below that you should eat these foods sparingly.
Problem is, this nutrition compass is distorted by financial conflicts of interest and environmental belief-based nutrition. It therefore provides some really nonsensical results, with many ultra-processed foods ranking above more nutrient-dense options.
Still, the guide is no easy dismissal because it’s supposed to form the foundation of future public food policy in the US and the rest of the world over the next fifty years.
Now examine this chart closely:
Here’s an excerpt from the system:
Limit fats from animals but eat all the canola and vegetable oil you want.
Meatless meats (and all their gloriously unhealthy ingredients) are better than natural meat.
You can drink your meals, eat cereal often, take in processed fruits and sugar.
Low fat nutrient-poor foods trump nutrient dense foods
Processed low-fat milk is better than whole, real milk
(Source)
It’s heartening to know that I can basically forget that these types of foods have sent overweight/obesity rates skyrocketing from 1960 forward. So I can stuff myself with vegetables, tofu and grains, but definitely not meat, because we have to save the environment.
This Food Compass uses meaningless criteria to rank foods that don’t optimize nutrient density. Financed by the food industry, it merely guides you to buy more of the junk (grain based) products it wants to sell you. Never mind the US population of 34.2 million diabetics and 88 million prediabetics.
Environmentally, high-protein foods tend to be more expensive and take longer to grow, with lower profit margins. Hence this 2018 Guardian article stating that our current livestock system must suffer upheaval through a 90 percent reduction in meat-eating. You see, what you eat has effects beyond the desired improvement to our waistline (tongue in cheek). It prevents deforestation, water shortages, vast ocean dead zones and starvation. Or something like that.
So we are asked about how we can transform our diets to be better to ourselves and the planet. The answer is said to be two fold:
Fight tooth and nail against the consumption of meat, dairy, eggs, factory farming, and animal agriculture in general.
Become a vegan environmentalist and get used to eating weird vegan hippie foods, bugs, plant based burgers and soon lab-grown meats. Yum!
That’s right, we are to stop the process of developing as a nation, to have coal or natural gas or even nuclear power. We want to use wind and solar which is intermittent, ineffective, and incredibly cost-prohibitive.
I’ll be blunt in my assessment: It’s all so the “elite”, the godless, can get richer. In the end, their woke studies and ideas are built on sand. They’re not only politically polarizing, but nutritionally self-destructive. Don’t fall for it!