"Foods aren't good or bad. Just good and bad amounts of food."
June 26, 2013 5:46 AM Subscribe
Do you agree with this affirmation? Why or why not?
I'm in the consulting business, and yesterday I saw a sign in the client's cafeteria boasting the assertion that, "[f]oods aren't good or bad. Just good and bad amounts of food." Ignoring its grammatically flawed structure, this notion is one with which I vehemently disagree. I was almost convinced it was written facetiously. So when I brought it up to my colleagues at lunch, I was shocked by their (overall, in consensus) response - "That is a true statement." What?! Am I holding an unrealistically liberal stance here? For the record, I am vegan, but my colleagues don't know this. With that said, I'd like to hear the opinion of all types of eaters - carnivores (do those actually exist?), omnivores, pescetarians, vegetarians, vegans, and whoever else I'm missing. What do you think, and why do you think that way?
I'm in the consulting business, and yesterday I saw a sign in the client's cafeteria boasting the assertion that, "[f]oods aren't good or bad. Just good and bad amounts of food." Ignoring its grammatically flawed structure, this notion is one with which I vehemently disagree. I was almost convinced it was written facetiously. So when I brought it up to my colleagues at lunch, I was shocked by their (overall, in consensus) response - "That is a true statement." What?! Am I holding an unrealistically liberal stance here? For the record, I am vegan, but my colleagues don't know this. With that said, I'd like to hear the opinion of all types of eaters - carnivores (do those actually exist?), omnivores, pescetarians, vegetarians, vegans, and whoever else I'm missing. What do you think, and why do you think that way?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but an reader opinion poll is basically chatfilter -- taz
I took your saying to mean that stuff like french fries aren't bad, but a huge plate of them are.
Maybe that's how your colleagues took it?
posted by royalsong at 5:53 AM on June 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
Maybe that's how your colleagues took it?
posted by royalsong at 5:53 AM on June 26, 2013 [2 favorites]
The sign is promoting weight loss not any other virtue and for that purpose it is true in the very important sense that habitual portion control is a key differentiator between the slim and not slim, as opposed to avoidance of certain kinds of food.
posted by MattD at 5:54 AM on June 26, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by MattD at 5:54 AM on June 26, 2013 [3 favorites]
Ethical considerations aside, isn't this just a food-specific version of "moderation in all things, including moderation"?
posted by emkelley at 5:54 AM on June 26, 2013
posted by emkelley at 5:54 AM on June 26, 2013
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Certainly there are foods like Fois Gras or veal, that are obtained cruelly, I can't condone that.
I'm not really about factory farmed meat at all, but I understand the necessity of it.
As for the amounts, that's a value judgement and it gets my ire up because how dare a sign judge a person!
So...yeah, I didn't like the idea either.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 5:49 AM on June 26, 2013