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The Temple Of Busy Has Turned Us Into Fat Pigs
I’ll keep this one fairly short. I just want you to follow a bouncing ball with me.
Bounce 1: Restaurant patronage
New article in City Lab called “Restaurants Are The New Factories” (I always thought that was hospitals, but oh well), featuring this paragraph:
In 1990, manufacturing was almost three times larger than the food-service industry. But restaurants have gradually closed the gap. At current rates of growth, more people will work at restaurants than in manufacturing in 2020. This mirrors the shift in consumer spending. Restaurants’ share of America’s food budget has doubled from 25 percent in the 1950s to 50 percent today.
Wall Street Journal is on this too: “The lost art of cooking.”
Bounce 2: Generally speaking …
… eating out is going to be less healthy than making your own food. (Not always, but let’s say most of the time.)
