All our food choices have also made us persnickety at the table. Laudan said, “One of the problems of abundance is that everyone can design their own diet. In the past, if you didn’t eat what everyone else in the family ate, then you just didn’t eat. Nobody was going to make something special for you. This also led to a kind of family control on portion size in the diet, because there used to be enough food but not enough for everybody to have as much as they wanted,” she said. “But today many children grow up believing they can pick whatever they want within reason. People aren’t tasked to
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