There is no better example of how human societies lost each time disruptive technologies surged, other than the evolution of our food industry. Today’s cancer and obesity epidemics are the direct result of incredible changes that took place in food production over the course of just a few decades. Just as our civilisation began sending humans to space, societies back on Earth began eating crap - much of it, ironically, inspired by space foods. Modern industrial food processing came at the cost of vastly diminished nutritional quality, dubious food safety, and a disregard for the tragic healthcare consequences of a new generation of toxic frankenfoods that were invented, marketed, and forever embedded into our cultures.
Over time, our food was transformed from a nourishment to an addiction, and from a social experience to a lonely compulsion. Human societies became industrial farms with their own version of industrial farm feed loaded with carcinogenic chemicals, high glycaemic index, overprocessed, toxic by-products and levels of fat, sugar and salt that our bodies have never been exposed to in the entire history of the species. Although our foods today last much longer on the shelf, we can’t exactly call them foods: some of them are so toxic and indigestible that they can conceivably outlive civilisation itself.
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