A blog of author Russell Hasan, who writes books about philosophy, politics and economics, and science fiction and fantasy novels

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

How to Eat Only Clean Food

If the goal of one's diet is to eat only "clean" food, I have identified these two principles with which to do so:
(1) Animal bodies are dirty. Therefore, animals are inherently dirty. Therefore meat, being the meat of animals and of their animal bodies, is inherently dirty. Therefore, a clean diet is a vegetarian diet.
(2) Junk food is dirty, because it literally contains the same nutritional value as eating an equivalent amount of dirt. So, a clean diet is one in which no junk food is eaten. And the test for whether something qualifies as "junk food" is: What nutrition do I gain from eating this that I would not gain from eating a pile of dirt?
All junk food is unclean and should never be eaten. However, soda is not junk food. All junk food is dirt, but soda has been misclassified as a type of junk food, when soda is a legitimate form of clean food.