Natural Food? (Score 1)

People forget that we have evolved to consume food which is grown naturally. Although we can take apart food into carbohydrates, lipids, vitamins and minerals just taking all these and putting them back together is not the same thing. Manufacturing food by adding ingredients is potentially very unhealthy because all manufactured food has the same (supposetly ideal) proportions of subcomponents whereas the our individual needs differ. We also fail to take into account the importance of some minerals that are found in food in quantities too low for industry to detect them or add them. Some of them are actually poisonous at even low doses but required in minute amounts to maintain good healt (see deficiencies expirienced by brain dead people living exclusively on artificial food, Selenium comes to mind but I may be wrong about the element). We also tend to forget that food is very important in making us feel good, anyone who has ever tried naturally grown fruit will know (I guess not many of you (haha)).

Markets for manufactured food do not really exist. Instead of going into the trouble of making food it is much simpler to grow it naturally. Companies try to convince people that manufactured food is 'cool' and healthly only to set up markets where the profit margin is much greater than conventional agriculture. FDA should have intervened long time ago...