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> I am starting to truly believe that we are slowly poisoning ourselves without realising it and then blaming the wrong culprits for it.

I have a background in hospitality, so I used to think about this all the time. I fully agree with you because I have no idea where all these allergies came from. It doesn't help that the problem is exacerbated by restaurants bending over backwards to fill chairs -- many of those allergies are just diets with parlance that cooks easily understand.

The fear for me is that we, as the affected mass, can be cognisant but remain powerless. We still go to the same brick and mortars and that's our only participation in the process. The changes that happen to our food are already delivered by a fully functioning system, at a scale unlikely to make swift changes, before we get any or notice it's bad. Only when we die are changes made, like seatbelts, but tasty.

I watched Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams last night (Crazy Diamond). "What would happen to our local economy if everyone grew their own food?" <-- Chills, man. Won't be long.

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> many of those allergies are just diets with parlance that cooks easily understand

Absolutely. My dad has a strong aversion to garlic - it's not an alergy, he just can't stand even the faintest taste of it in food. After years of telling the waiters "absolutely no garlic" and the waiters bringing food with garlic and him complaining and the waiters answering "the cook said it's so little you shouldn't be able to taste it" nowadays he just says "I'm alergic to garlic" and he has problems much more rarely.