The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by Donald Trump to the position of health and human service minister has broken cultural and media taboos. Americans pay the highest rates for health care in the world and also have the highest rates of chronic diseases. Food is one of the best factors.
Although Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Ag are centrally broken, according to Calley and Casey Means, who were both promoted by Kennedy and Tucker Carlson, not much has already been made of the other historical shifts that fuel this breakdown has been made public. For one: The collapse in full-time mother.
It’s ridiculous to claim that people aren’t “economically effective” if they’re working at home rather of somewhere else, but this still depicts a real and substantial change.
This doesn’t outline part-timers, but is still suggestive.
The only good and visible alternative to processed “food” is home-cooked foods made from scratch. The rich may employ private chefs, but for us, 99 percent, the only way to get home-cooked foods is to make it with our own arms. Traditionally, parents have provided this critical support to their families. In today’s society of educated medicine, it is a strong personal expense in one’s family as well as in one’s country and neighbors.
Making from-scratch foods is a major part-time work. I estimate I spend 25-30 time on it per month, including shopping day. And that’s with growing very little of our foods. If we had a significant courtyard, which I’ve done in some years, it may add another 15-20 days a week at least. That’s a full-time job correctly that simply getting the most nutritious foods feasible. And if you don’t expand it yourself, you may trade your own work hours for the worker’s.
It’s difficult to balance producing delayed food with maintaining a full-time work away from home. Well, doing both is possible, but even with tricks such as making plain meals, feeding fewer people ( we have six children ), getting help from family, and prepping on the weekends, getting excellent food is still a major time spend. Singles and couples who generally cook at home are spending a part-time company’s price on that process, also, just a little smaller.
It takes a lot of time to locate local farmers, visit their farms or farmers markets weekly, and shop at various locations for the best prices when buying groceries, wash and chop the vegetables, defrost the meat, soak the grains and beans, heat everything, and then wash all the dishes ( because if we’re talking about healthy, we’re not microwaving plastic! ). Next of course there’s the time spent cooking meals for the entire family, clearing the table, and putting away crumbs rather than scurrying through fast foods in the car or life area served via DoorDash or GrubHub.
Rose With Excluded Mothers Chronic Disease Rose In Tandem
Feeding children outside of the home is ultimately an extremely expensive and low-quality substitute for home-cooked food, just as childcare is a very expensive and lower-quality approach to care for children in the long run ( because every baby almost always prefers her own mother to any other man, and losing a mother frequently affects the group ).
That’s because, while subsidized processed “food” is cheap at the grocery store or school lunch program, it inflicts national-budget-breaking costs on taxpayers and health insurance-payers. He has a strong interest in helping other Americans be healthy because every tax-paying American pays tens of thousands annually for the health care of other people. Not to mention, of course, the incalculable suffering of sick people and their families.
According to Kennedy, Carlson, Means, and others, chronic illness is a major cause of the rise in the number of American children, along with government monopolies of the agricultural and healthcare sectors. However, the epidemic of chronic diseases has also occurred in tandem with the home birth exodus.
Consuming processed food has increased in tandem with the number of American children receiving government-provided food, such as school meals and food stamps, in addition to the epidemic of chronic diseases. Many cities offer summer lunches and snacks through a federal program, which also makes public parks unvisited because of the large numbers of unparented kids who attend schools that are now also providing snacks and even dinners, and many poverty-concentrated schools also offer these things.
Here, Bigger Isn’t Better
Of course, the majority of those who work for the federal food programs are happy, but it’s logistically impossible to make meals and snacks for a mass of 50 to 500 children with scratch-made ingredients. Similar to daycare, taxpayers would have to spend 20 times as much on these programs, including paying for real ingredients and hiring many more staff to prepare the food in a much more labor-intensive manner. No cafeteria can serve grass-fed beef burgers with real sourdough buns.
Given the current entitlement bankruptcy, it is much more affordable for each mother to provide this for her own children. Not only does that not exist for public money for that. In such circumstances, quality is deteriorated and costs more money.
Yes, one mother’s offering from scratch food for one to eight children costs less and takes less time per person. But if you’re shifting from eight children to 50, you’re going to need several staff paid with benefits, not to mention mass food sourcing. Then we return to the Big Food and Big Pharma original issues.
At six kids, I’m already up to stocking the No. Instead of the piddly 14.5-ounce cans that normies buy, 10 cans of diced tomatoes are available. That way we can bring leftovers for the kids ‘ school lunches. There will be more teenagers very soon, and I will have to answer two yes. 10 cans to get leftovers. The point is that there isn’t much room to grow past the size of a nuclear family without going industrial, and the issue we’re trying to solve is related to industrial food.
I can attest to the difficulty of working and providing almost entirely home-cooked meals to my children since the first was born. My husband has assisted in many ways, including occasionally doing the entire thing himself — bless him. ) ( Depending on the season. ) No one I know who works full-time also prepares the majority of meals for their families. It’s not because they don’t want to, it’s because it’s next to impossible to hold a full-time job and a part-time job for 18 years in a row, and if you try you’ll soon have chronic health issues.
Families would have more time to prepare from scratch food if our society honored mothers and fathers who would dedicate one-quarter of their waking hours to ensuring the well-being of their families ( and thus the nation ) and if government didn’t impose mothers on the payroll to cover its malevolent spendthriftery.
And then the taxpayers wouldn’t be spending billions on chronic illnesses brought on by metabolically destructive “food.” Not to mention, there would be much-welcome lessening national suffering and a rise in productive national energy.
Women With Time Are a National Resource
Full-time mothers are a national resource in many ways, of course. According to Robert Putnam’s analysis of Bowling Alone, one-fifth of the decline in community events and socialization since the 1950s is due to a decline in women who have time to attend hotels because we are putting more time into paid work. Even the Biden administration’s surgeon general sees loneliness as a national crisis.
However, feminism has made it politically and culturally unpalatable to say that if we are free from the pressure to provide all the food as well as prepare it, then our country is much stronger when women provide priceless services to their families and neighbors.
Our sexy potentials are much more culturally beneficial than working to increase GDP by one hundredth of a percentage. What a foolish and perilous measure of human flourishing that is in fact.
