In the Name of Progress

We developed fancy food processing that prolonged the shelf life of foods and made foods look just glossy and perfect and ‘shopper friendly’ and we pack things into cans and add chemicals that all are supposedly harmless in the quantities deployed …but the scientists who first tested smoking said it was harmless because the ingredients were of so low a level that no harm could be caused. ….but we now see that that was blatantly wrong and it is killing us by the hundreds of thousands and half killing millions more.

Could it be that we are in danger of seeing the same type of thing emerge in the future of such food processing questions?