The Seventy-Year Experiment

How the American Food Supply Was Rebuilt Around Things That Didn't Exist in 1900

von Paul Damascussi

148 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1977, the government told Americans to stop eating animal fat. In 1990, the restaurants followed. Almost none of what replaced it had existed on a plate a century before.

Nobody voted on any of this. It happened in a Senate committee room, a fast-food test kitchen, and a regulatory filing cabinet, and every one of those decisions is a matter of public record, not a theory.

This book puts them together, and dates it. In 1977, a Senate report told Americans for the first time to eat less saturated fat. In 1990, one man's newspaper ad campaign - not a government mandate - got McDonald's to swap beef tallow for seed oil. Since 2000, 863 of the next 873 new food chemicals reached your kitchen through a loophole that lets a company decide for itself, with no public notice, that its own ingredient is safe.

It is not a diet book pretending to be history, or a history book with an agenda about your plate. Part Four is deliberately short, states by name who should not try any of this without a doctor, and ends with exactly what to track and what to ignore.

Twenty-two chapters. Ten charts. Full sources by chapter. Nothing to buy at the end.

What changed wasn't your body. It was what showed up on your plate - and who decided that it should.

• ISBN: 9798173331182
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp