A thought I’ve come to adore is the realization that fast food has turned us into literal livestock. Not the same as cows though. They’re fattened for food, we’re fattened for profit.
Think about it. Cows are fattened by being overfed processed foods while they’re kept sedentary and inactive, all so they can grow and be eaten. We’re being fattened by being overfed processed foods all while being kept sedentary, all so we can grow fatter while enriching fast food companies.
Our growing junk food addictions aren’t an unfortunate consequence of human impulses, but rather a manufactured state brought on by food scientists manufacturing the most delicious addicting foods to ensure we never stop eating. Every bite we take is money for these people, so they’ve spent billions making sure every bite is followed by another, and another, and another.
The idea that the obesity epidemic is a health crisis is false, its a profit scheme. It isn’t Covid, or some pandemic brought on by nature. Viewing the obesity epidemic as a health crisis is like viewing the fattening of pigs as a health crisis. We WANT pigs to get fatter, and corporations WANT us to get fatter.
Fast food is our slop. Its not a nutritious natural diet, its cheap fattening food. They don’t feed us so much of it because its good for us, its because its cheap, so they can save profits, the EXACT same reason we feed pigs slop. They WANT us to overeat. If we ate a normal healthy amount their profits are capped, but when we start pushing past that, suddenly trillions more in profit is in the table.
And its not just the food either, the entire technology industry is built on keeping you sedentary. Every scroll, every Youtube video, every game you play. Thats time you should’ve spent exercising, but instead spent sat in a chair, or even in your bed.
We’re being shaped into perfect piglets who get fattened for profit. I have to imagine CEOs being so excited at how fat we got, how gladly we let them turn us into livestock. To them, our embarrassingly large stomachs must represent enormous wells of profit. Every inch on your waist is more money in the bank.
Think about how much money you’ve spent on fast food in your life? Then extrapolate that till the day you die? It makes so much sense now doesn’t it. Your fat tummy is millions in profits over your lifetime.
People look down on livestock, animals “beneath” us who are simply fattened for us. But look at yourself, if your belly is far larger than it naturally should be, if you eat excessive amounts of their slop instead of real food, if you don’t exercise nearly enough because you spend all day in a trance staring at your phone. Then what makes you so different from those cows?
Some might be worried about how all of humanity is slowly becoming livestock, but I say welcome it. That food in nature, the outdoors, it wasn’t MADE for you. That was just a statistical phenomenon we were thrust into. THIS was made for us. Remember with every bite that a century of science was dedicated to making that bite so irresistible you never stop eating. Remember with every scroll that there’s an algorithm dedicated to perfectly curating content so that you’ll scroll for hours without even noticing.
This world has been perfectly curated to constantly feed us dopamine, at the expense of our once flat stomachs. You’re always being curated dopamine through food, online content, whatever. In the words of Tumblr “You’ll Probably Never be Bored Again”. Livestock lose their freedom for an infinite curated stream of food. They’re never free, but never hungry. We’re also caged, by our phones, by our diets. But these things also ensure we’re never hungry. When was the last time you were truly hungry, truly bored?
Whenever you want out, just remember how uncomfortable that hunger is, that boredom is. Keeping your head in the trough just feels so good, so don’t lift it out. Eat fast food until your poor belly quakes from being so overfed, scroll until the days start blending together. Your belly will stretch out further and further, and they’ll discover ways to make it even bigger. Know when you weigh yourself there’s a CEO hoping you get even heavier. Because that’s what being livestock is all about, and frankly, being livestock feels amazing. No responsibilities, no freedom, just bliss.