Huh? Mother Jones Explains Why Eating 3 Square Meals A Day Is Actually Racist

According to an essay by Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler, eating three meals a day is “anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick.”

Butler’s astounding proclamation that three square meals is “racist” is supported by her interview with Historian Abigail Carroll, who wrote the book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal:

When European settlers got to America, they also imported their meal habits: a light meal—maybe cold mush and radishes—in the morning, a heavier, cooked one midday, and a third meal similar to the first one later in the day.

They observed that the eating schedule of the native tribes was less rigid—the volume and timing of their eating varied with the seasons. Sometimes, when food was scarce, they fasted.

The Europeans took this as “evidence that natives were uncivilized,” Carroll explained to me in an email. “Civilized people ate properly and boundaried their eating, thus differentiating themselves from the animal kingdom, where grazing is the norm.”

Butler goes on to urge her readers to abandon the racist, European invention by forgoing the three meals-a-day tradition.

As Katherine Timpf at National Review sums it up:

So, basically — if you organize your eating around breakfast, lunch and dinner, you are perpetuating the racist belief that Native Americans are savage animals.

Shame on you!

If that’s the case, perhaps we, as a society, would be better served to abandon other European inventions. After all, if it was invented by Europeans, it must be, by definition, racist:

1. The Printing Press

This was invented in the 15th century by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany.

2. Penicillin

Penicillin was discovered at the turn of the last century by French physician, Ernest Duchesne, who was studying bread molds and other bacteria.

3. Pasteurized milk

Microbiologist Louis Pasteur invented the pasteurization process to kill deadly microbes in raw milk. Prior to the European invention, tens of thousands of people died from Tuberculosis by drinking contaminated milk.

4. The Christmas Card

In 1843 John Calcott Horsley created the first Christmas card in England. The lithographed piece of cardboard depicted a British family celebrating Christmas.

5.  Gasoline-powered engine

Belgian engineer Étienne Lenoir invented the first gasoline-powered internal combustion engine in 1860. It has polluted the atmosphere with deadly carbon emissions ever since and, coming from Europe, it is obviously racist.

(Source: ijreview.com)