other than lofty words from the effete Hellenes
It's interesting to think they/we were once thought effete. I guess all races, at different points in time (not simultaneously) were considered both effete and barbarian! I guess it comes down to civilization rather than genes.
Instead, the milk conglomerates purchased the services of USDA to formulate the so-called “food pyramid,” a highly effective propaganda and advert tool for milk product overconsumption. So effective was the advert scheme that to this day, US citizenry, and increasingly much of the world, blindly consume milk and milk products beyond sound nutritional paradigm.
Interesting. Needs research! I like to read on nutrition and you're right they are pressing consumption of milk products, but I don't know if they do so unjustifiably. See first two sections of this food post of mine.
So effective is the automobile industry’s social engineering, that the US citizenry has no cognitive dissonance with the reality of life, in which automobile ownership has become a necessity to survival, solely due to infrastructure architecture.
We should soon be moving toward this, I think. I like his analogy to our blood vessels. As in many things, our bodies do it so much better.
Overall, apt parallels between old and new politics and states of affairs.
I don't know if early Republican Romans thought of Hellenes as "effete," but the later historiographers seem to attribute a certain degenerate tendencies in their "emperors" with Hellenic influence. But the Romans had a love-hate relationship with Hellenic culture, which the aristocracy seems to have enthusiastically adopted and integrated into their circle. It was common for the patricians to speak Greek dialect amongst themselves when conversing and use Latin to command their servants. An interestingly tragic circumstance, as the later Roman information system collapsed, the Westerners were limited to speaking only Latin, while the Easterners became essentially Hellenic, forever dividing Europe and Christianity to the West and the East.
Cow's milk is not the best avenue for calcium supplementation. Cow's milk can provide for calcium and proteins, but the degree to which the public is coerced into using cow's milk products is primarily due to the sinister milk conglomerate. Conspiracy theorists ramble on about the Illuminati but they never think to look inside their refrigerators and witness the true power of the milk masterminds. The milk conglomerates make the CIA look like child's play.