It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature
It’s been almost fifty years since I’ve put margarine into my body. I would go without eating before I put that manufactured stuff (which is not even a real food) into my body. Butter is a real food that has real nutrients (especially if it is organic and from grass-fed animals). It is healthy and in my opinion a thousand times more flavorful. I side with your roommate.
But that is just facts, opinions and common sense. I liked your nostalgia angle, Kyrie Gray. I, too, was forced to ingest artificial margarine into my body when I was a kid. That is all my mother would buy. Why? Because it was cheaper. No other reason. That is how the margarine manufacturing industry hooked so many people.
But when I was a teenager I read up on the facts about both margarine and butter and about how one is an actual food with nutritional benefits and the other is fake food with ZERO nutritional benefits I made the switch. I got money out of my piggy bank and went shopping with my mom and I bought real butter. I put my name on it and placed it in the fridge and told the rest of the family that it was mine and no one else could have any. I never ate margarine again. (I was the official black sheep of the family.)
Oddly, at around the same time I quit drinking cow milk and haven’t had so much as a sip ever since. I’m not a baby cow! With that being said I must admit that I’m a huge cheese-lover.
I agree that food choices are greatly affected by nostalgia. For me, eating butter is not just about eating healthy things but also it brings up fond memories of when I was just a wee lad how I stood up for myself and made my own choices instead of allowing myself to be forced to eat unhealthy food just for the sake of a few pennies. I was so proud of myself back then and now whenever I put some broccoli smothered with real butter into my mouth that pride bubbles up.
No matter how healthy the food we eat is, in order to fully benefit from any nutrition in it, it helps to eat the food with loving thoughts and joy. Joy enhances the health benefits of any food. There was a lot of joy in your article, Kyrie Gray .
