Genetically manipulated super wheat makes us want to eat 500 more calories a day. It makes us want to eat. Ironic actually that we get hungry, we eat food and the food makes us hungrier, so we eat more food.
Wasn’t that a twilight Zone Episode?
One of Dante’s nine layers of hell?
A H.P. Lovecraft Story?
It shouldn’t be real.
But it is.
I bet if we needed less sleep we would be inhaling even more calories. I think this works out perfect for the food industry, just like it works out for crack dealers; give them a product that keeps them coming back for more and the money will just roll in.
They say this super wheat binds to the same pleasure receptors in the brain as opium does.
To seek that original feeling of satisfaction after the first time using a drug user is Chasing the Dragon, because the addict will never again, ever, feel like they did when they used for that very first time, but they will chase that idea of getting that high each and every time they use.
Do they make Methadone for food yet?
As a kid my mom would buy us wheat bread. She did it to make us healthy, because white bread was bad for us, but actually she just made us hungrier. My poor mom and all the other poor moms out there who skipped over the wonder bread in favor of the brown stuff, they just made their kids fat as hell.
I think I have read corn has been engineered in this exact same way.
Well just fuck us silly.
Food is engineered to stroke the pleasure centers of our brains anyway, right? If we did not like to eat wouldn’t it be more of a chore? It makes sense for it to be a survival thing to like the activity. But I love how this food will mimic, “trigger,” similar reaction a drug addict or alcoholic has with their drug of choice, making us want to “do” more food.
I would like to think it was an accident. That in a lab somewhere way back in the 50’s a chemist saw the compound he had just developed deep inside this new genetically enhanced wheat germ and just did not see how it would affect the brain. I am sure he just wasn't given the opportunity to call over his boss and say, “Shit dude this wheat will just make people hungrier, that defeats the whole purpose of eating, right?”
And I am sure if the chemist had made this discovery and called over his boss, his boss would have said, “Well I am sure glad you made this discovery, that would have been great for the bottom line, people eating 25% more then they need to survive daily, but we can’t allow this out into the market, too dangerous. Let’s start over”
That scene works best if you imagine Wally and the Beaver.
How cynical can I be that I know the exact opposite is how it actually went down, that someone wanted to be 25% richer.
I am sure this is closer to the reality of the real conversation.
Chemist says, “Hey I just invented a way to make people hungrier.”
Boss replies, “That’s awesome here is a raise and stock options, don’t tell anyone.”
60 years ago they designed food to make us hungrier and now we all are too fat, with high triglycerides, BMI’s off the charts and bad cholesterol dripping from our pores. I guess the 25% more daily calorie intake is valued higher then longer life expectation and normal food intake.
Funny how numbers work, huh?
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