Elucidating The Western Pattern Diet

       Western society has many health concerns associated with its diet including its obesity, heart disease, colon cancer, diabetes and Crohns disease (Tung 2001, Heidemann 2008). These concerns are intricately connected to what has been called the western pattern diet (WPD) and which consists of fried food, red meat, pre-packaged food and high fat dairy products. The meat industry and dairy industry have made large profits in the last couple of decades and with accumulated capital they have also gained power over Western society’s food landscape. These animal products have major repercussions for our health simply because of the portions at which many Westerners consume them. Most diet professionals claim the importance of meat and dairy in a healthy diet, and this is further embedded in our culture with our incessant enjoyment of consuming animal products. It is because of Western society’s desire for animal products which ties a Western lifestyle to unsustainable methods of animal husbandry, where meat consumption has grown to such a height that we have no attachment whatsoever to the animals involved. This unsustainable meat industry has migrated to other food items, covering them in plastic, canning them, and synthesizing them in various ways so that demand rates can forever increase alongside production rates. Unfortunately, this conflicts with nature because eventually this demand will taper out, especially as consumers begin to miss what the real food was once before. This conflict can be observed in the rhetorical question of whether corn in the can is the same on the cob. It is undeniable that those who say no and those who say yes are two different populations of consumers, each needing their own representation.

To end this, We have known not to eat this kind of food for centuries now as was pointed out in Deut. 12. 23. "Eate not the Bloud, for the Bloud is the Soule; that is, the Life."
We should think of a world where we no longer smite omnem animam viventem, like God told Noah after he exited the Arke.