We're not animals?

Yes, another post about food. It's just that food – specifically our uncontrollable desire for it -is the perfect target for our self analysis. It is perhaps the most vital of operations an organism must perform to be successful, second only to reproduction (obviously why both seem, to some, to be pillars of which their life revolves).

I’m aware that my previous post was somewhat non-sensical and a bit all-over-the-place, and so I apologise for that, and for this next one in advance as it not be much of an improvement.

To start here's another pearl of wisdom (maybe these could be the theme for my posts) that really 'got my goat', or whatever the expression is.

"Eeeeeew, mushrooms. They're a fungus!"

Yes they are. Well done, Carolus Linnaeus would be proud. But that is no argument for convincing people to not eat them. In fact, it is not an argument at all. It's tantamount to claiming that "I won't eat that because it's food." There's only one word for this: Idiocy.

I'm not trying to tell people that they're stupid for disliking the taste of certain foods. What I am trying to stop is people not thinking when they think they are thinking(...what?) or more accurately, to encourage rational thinking. If the only reason that you don't eat something is because it's "squishy"or "smells funny" or "looks yuk" or just down right doesn't taste nice, then these aren't reasons at all (I hope I don't have to clarify that i'm referring to items that are food and are of known decent nutritional value and age). Just eat it, it'll no doubt be good for you, but more importantly it will give you practise in taming those insulting primitive urges and give us some small justification for acting as the superior beings that we claim to be. Don't succumb to those phantoms from the past wrapping you round their little fingers by rewarding you for devouring all that is sweet or salty or whatever. We can thank those urges because they got us to where we are today, but we don't need them anymore and we should be giving them the shaft. If not for our own sense of self achievement then for our longevity.