This timeline is offered to lay out a history of how health has progressed over time. It is from the author’s (mine) perspective, largely. It is not intended to be exhaustive or conclusive. My aim is simply to show that a lot has changed over time, but more importantly, the vastness of that change has occurred with the advent of modern industrial approaches to the acquisition of food, and the parallel and subsequent overall decline in health with it. As I always strive to point out, most of this kind of thing (at least) begins benign, and usually is an effort of mankind to manage need. But often we get the cart before the horse, and seal concretely in the infrastructure the novel methodology before actually doing the requisite R&D to prove it out. So we end up with an entire world built around a new idea without having any proof of concept except within our imaginations. Best of intentions, but nothing to really back it up.

Anyway, for your entertainment value, I’ve also included one of my favorite film clips demonstrating the point. Jeff Goldblum, in this classic scene from Jurassic Park, portrays the rock star scientist schooling the giddy corporatist and his attorney over their novel dinosaur engineering and exploitation. He says it so much more eloquently and succinctly than I can. Sometimes you just need to stop and think if you should. Enjoy.