Later, Jon said that more than anything the experience made him think about the “industrial food complex” and how the mass production of food was a kind of overcorrection to our deep, ancient fear of starvation. When we think about all the health problems in the United States that are due to obesity, it’s like a multi-millennia-long Twilight Zone episode. We, our species, got what we so desperately longed for in all those lean times, but there’s a catch. All this easy access, all these too-full bellies will kill us, too.
