In Reply to: contra vegophagia: Meat, Sugar, Whiskey - prefered goods posted by richard d henkus on August 17, 1996 at 16:02:05:
> Anyone care to comment on the well-known example of
> Japan, where consumption of beef, sugar, and whiskey have increase
> several times more than increase in per-capita GDP?
> Health is hardly the only maximand, possibly not
> even among the ultimates.
> Pursuit of hapiness .ne. pursuit of health.Is Japan happier?
Having been fed crappy Western propaganda (to the point
where people committed suicide because they didn't look
Western enough), we're now feeding them crappy Wetern food too.Health _is_ a maximand. Any society that does not hold
the wellbeing of its members a chief principle is (excuse
the pun) a sick society and an evolutionary dead end.This isn't only about the human world either:
we are destroying the planet, with all its species.WORLD_HEALTH .GE. INDIVIDUAL_HAPPINESS
Gideon.
None.