Ready-Made Meals

It is not a coincidence that obesity and eating related diseases reached genuine pandemic levels after the feminist movement took root in America. As women left their natural roles of mothers and wives to enter the workforce en masse, the introduction of “fast” meals entered the American diet. We went from homemade meals to T.V. dinners and Happy Meals. This led to ever increasing ways to speed up a supper, especially as these working moms became single moms.

The natural progress of these ready-made meals ultimately became economic considerations for the companies that make them. Cheaper ingredients, cheaper packaging, and cheaper production became the new focus. What began as aluminum foil-based meals processed in Maryland and cooked in an oven became plastic wrapped meals processed in China and melted in a microwave (microplastics mixed among your vegetables).

When GenX kids (the first generation to really suffer the full weight of feminism and desegregation) effectively raised themselves as “latch key” kids, they were conditioned to feed themselves such meals. Pulling out a meal from the freezer instead of a meal made by mom became normal. Whereas those kids were not as impacted by the first wave of ready-made meals and mis-versus ‘mal’-nutrition, the compounding generational impact is visibly obvious. GenX did not have Chinese processed dinosaur chicken tenders to eat as children. Early-stage Millennials did.

Fast forward, and you see the cumulative impact of our meal choices. The rampant explosion of homosexuality, transgenderism, and obesity are not simply societal shifts. Something is “in the water,” so to speak. More accurately, I believe something is in the food. Those food choices began when women left the homes for work and men left their homes altogether.

Padraig Martin

The son of a recent Irish immigrant and another with roots to Virginia since 1670.  I love both my Irish and Southern Nations with a passion.  Florida will always be my country. Dissident support here: Padraig Martin is Dixie on the Rocks (buymeacoffee.com)