[andrewla]

All due respect, I do not feel like you understand my concern.

"Improving the nutritional value" is exactly what I am railing against. The idea that we understand human nutrition in any quantitative way is not realistic. It involves attempting to reduce complex systems to a small set of things that we can understand (making the system more "legible") is dangerous and represents a huge failure of what James C. Scott calls "high modernism".

By the time that we figure out that one of the nutrients presented is harmful unless it is accompanied by mediators naturally present in real foods it will be too late to fix these processes.

[cheese_please]

You're right, I misunderstood your initial comment, so I see that my response was completely antithetical to your thoughts on nutrition. Sorry for the miscommunication!