Re: High quality foods...
How right you are. I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Mainly because there is nothing good to buy in the shops around here. I can tell just by looking over the produce department - it all looks shiny and colourful and perfect, but somehow just so ....lifeless.
I was also thinking about society's obsession with "beauty". It is not so much shallow as biological. It is about choosing the best - the healthiest mate, the best foods. That is why we are attracted to beautiful things right?
But in this day and age we have it all wrong, faking it with smoke and mirrors - cosmetics, potions, surgery etc. We end up looking too perfect and yet lifeless and grotesque. Healthy people look beautiful not because they are blessed(?) with perfect features and proprtions but because they glow with life force. Although I found it quite fascinating to read in Weston. A. Price's book his observations on facial "deformities" [narrow jaws, receeding chins etc.] occuring in the generations consumming diets including refined flours and sugars where previous generations on traditional diets were more "perfectly" formed.