When I started eating vegan, I had a bit of an existential crisis, because all my foods were either plants or salt. (I’m not really into mushrooms so far.)
That existential crisis settled down when I realized that it’s not terribly different from non-vegan diets, since milk, eggs and meat are derived from plants just as well. And presumably, mushrooms are in some roundabout way, too.
Except then I got an existential crisis, because the entire human food chain foots on plants. We’re made from 100% plant material, how are we not just salty plants?
You need one existential crisis step further. With very rare exception (some life we’ve found living near thermal vents in the deep sea) all calories are derived from the sun through photosynthesis. I suppose you can muddy the waters with man made light sources powered by non-solar energy, but with the rare exception of nuclear power (or tidal, since that’s moon’s gravity, or geothermal, and a few other niche sources, but even out together these make up such small percentages), most man made energy is just harvesting the sun’s energy with more steps. Oil, that’s just ancient plant matter. Wind, that’s just air currents which only exist due to heat energy from the sun. Solar, lol. Not that grow lights even make up enough to matter, but it’s a fun part of the existential equation.
We eat the sun.
I’ve often had the thought of an alien planet where all life evolved photosynthesis. Nothing eats each other. And then they touch down on our planet and just see that it’s just like a bunch of creatures devouring each other and they’re horrified and never want to come back. And that’s why we don’t have alien visitors.
Mushrooms are fucking gross dude. Imo instant dish ruiner.
Just salt me and call it a day; I’m ready for the next stage of human diet
I’ll pickle you.
Humans be like Staple Crop
Today we have highly processed soy and corn in various forms. Progress!
Honestly, in the US, at least, we’ve run into the opposite problem - we eat too much meat for a healthy diet (on average, at least).
Suffering from success.
True. Eat your fruits and veggies raw, kids!
You don’t gotta eat em raw for health sake. Some are better for you cooked even.
But I crave starches and saturated fats.
Fine, live fast, die young.
Here for a good time, not a long time!
Explanation: Despite the arcadian romanticization of the farmer’s life, historically subsistence farmers had it quite… rough. Not least in the issue of food - processing grain was labor-intensive, and less-labor-intensive porridge (and flatbread, especially ash cakes) was a major source of calories for the poor.
Some people actually like grain water, though. Barbarians!
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, respectively.
Sometimes I think about how dead I’d be in those times as a person with celiac
There are lots of gluten-free options. Oats, sorghum, barley. It’s not all wheat.
It’s entirely possible that such diseases are more prominent in modern environments.
I guess it’s also possible that such people may have just died in childhood instead.
Get me some cheese to melt on that baked grain and I’m in.
The Greek philosopher Epicurus, who posited that the path to human happiness was (sustainable, appreciated) pleasure, once supposedly impressed a ruler so much that the ruler offered him vast estates, should he wish it, as a reward for his wisdom.
Epicurus just asked for some bread and a bowl of hot cheese, so he could “feast like a king”.
Gotta appreciate the good things in life!
Agriculture was a trap
Well actually yeah I’d love some
