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it's friday january 6th, 2023.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

How old is fast food?

And to what extent was food actually healthier in the past?

Before our days of factory farming and artificial preservatives?

A deep dive into the pros and cons of convenience food

then and now. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. When I was a sophomore in college,

we were all placed fairly randomly into themed seminar programs. Mine happened to be about food, and our professor,

a French native, who was the first to teach me that huge helpings of peanut butter are not

exactly good for you, structured a hefty portion of the seminar around the then-recent book,

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Poland.

Poland's critiques of industrial farming in the U.S. and our over-reliance on high-fructose corn syrup

came on the heels of documentaries like Super Size Me and Food, Inc., that were mainstreaming

concerns about factory farming and fast food,

and series like The Skinny Bitch Books, that were using toxic mid-aughts diet branding

to covertly turn people into vegans.

And while some decent discussions were raised by all of those books, movies, and primetime TV specials,

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