I'll say agree that government/corporations can and do negatively influence American's behavior. All you have to do is look at how marijuana was outlawed.
But I fear the way you seem to want corporations to be behind this is so you have some kind "Big Bad" to defeat and free Americans from this unholy influence. When unfortunately, there's another unsavory aspect of human nature that can't be put aside.
Why aren't you willing to believe that I've actually read the exact shyt historians have written on this issue and THAT is why I argue those exact facts?
I was completely committed to urban development for most of my life because that was all I knew. I believed like everyone else that the hand we were being dealt was just inevitable and we had to deal with it. It wasn't until about 2014 when I was first introduced to historians of the transition that I began to realize there was much more going on than I had ever known about. The stuff they wrote about suddenly made sense of the shyt I had seen growing up, was confirmed by the farmers I began talking to about it, and things began to fall into place that I had never bothered thinking about before.
This is a patently false.
The fact women were taking more roles outside outside of the house after WWII cause the family dynamic was changing after the war effort. Plus we were emphasizing scientific advancements for future careers.
Homeeconomics courses started as a way for women to make money from their domestic chores in the early 1900s.
Those classes went away just like trades cause the schools weren't funding them. Those classes became underpritorized in favor of things that would lead to jobs that were away from homemaker.
You keep seeing these government/corporate conspiracies when it's sometime just societies changing and government/corportations taking advantage of those changes. And now we've become accustomed to simply throwing stuff away.
We must be talking about two completely different things because there were still home ec courses when I was going to school in the 1980s and 1990s. If you're talking about shyt outside of the regular public school system then once again you're talking about a momentary flash in the pan that has nothing to do with the sustained reality.
Get this straight. Consolidating people isn't the same as we can't fill all areas. We can.
I understand corporate farms use more land and resources. My family used to own a farm. On my mother's side of the family it was normal to keep chickens outside for cooking/eggs even in the city.
I'm saying it doesn't make sense to keep land with 1500 abandoned homes/apartments in Detroit so we can keep a smaller outskirt city with an aging population and no jobs.
Why not convert those abandoned homes in Detroit into farmland, since Detroit doesn't have those jobs either? In fact, that is EXACTLY what some of the links I posted earlier were proposing and EXACTLY what black urban farmers were attempting to do, but (big surprise) corporate land speculators with corrupt connections to government were blocking them.
Yeah. Everyone knows are foods are pumped with chemicals. Monsato and all the others. Europe regulates chemicals way more than we do. That has nothing to do with why Americans don't want walk or food proportions.
You going to Applebees and eating 3 plates of steak fingers and a dessert isn't going to be fixed cause you get in your car and drive to your house and go to sleep for 8hrs instead of eating a fish and brussel sprouts from a local farmer.
Again, greater corporate influence on American politics is the direct reason why Monsanto and the others have kept regulations big-business friendly and consumer unfriendly here.
Again, greater corporate influence on American life is the direct reason why portion sizes have grown out of control. You don't think that massive campaigns to "supersize" your meals is having an effect on the consumer? You don't think massive corporate campaigns to get Americans to eat more beef....will result in Americans eating more beef?
Like I said before there are myriad other influences too, much of which are driven by urbanization and other lifestyle changes that we could wind back if we stop to think about it, but you keep treating those changes as if they're inevitable.
Of course!!!
Europe isn't healthier than America cause they have different evil corporations or government forces. They certainly aren't farming more than we do. Japan has healthier people despite the same tech and just as dense living conditions.
The mindset of the population is different.
Actually, Europe does have more family farms and less corporate control over farming than we do. You just pointed out above that they regulate chemicals in food more than America does, who do you think is responsible for ensuring America isn't like Europe? And Europe has a MUCH better history of sustainable farming techniques than America does, a lot of this can be traced back to the fact that European farming plots have had to produce for centuries and centuries and in some cases even 1000+ years, while many American plots were first broken in in the 1800s by pioneers who didn't know shyt about sustainable farming and were quickly used up and moved on from because they thought they had plenty of land.
Sadly, parts of Europe have shifted towards corporate control, it's happening slower than it did in America but it's a trend there too.
I didn't even begin getting the insight into this whole issue until 2014, and my current job is centered around mentoring/education and urban development in depressed city areas. But since about 2016 or so we've been seriously talking about moving to the countryside and promoting rural development there instead, and the fact that my baby daughter was born just last year only makes me want to pursue that even more strongly. Due to my current contract it probably won't happen before 2021.
