Smart Humans can be so Dumb
by Miki Saxon
Pardon this semi-rant, but humans are so arrogant.
Tech tech are some of the worst, but fintech, animal tech and food tech, may even be worse.
By word and/or action, the idea that they know best resonates through everything they do.
Banker arrogance, and the products it produced, gave us the 2008 financial meltdown.
Animal breeders gave us pets, with a host of enhanced medical problems, in return for a certain look.
And long before people freaked out over today’s GMO, humans have been doing selective breeding for more than 9000 years.
Boy, did they succeed.
On Sunday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that zookeepers at the Melbourne Zoo are weening some animals off of fruits because they were too sweet for the animals’ own good. Red pandas and primates had been gaining weight, and some had signs of tooth decay as well.
Whole fruits, not juice (aka liquid sugar) are supposed to be healthy for humans, because they are high in fiber, but when the sugar content is increased so drastically do the rules hold? Does the effort our bodies must make to process the fiber truly offset the higher sugar content?
I can’t really answer that, but I do know there aren’t a lot of people who choose veggies over fruit when offered a choice.
Image credit: Michael Tieso
