Fiat Food

1. Fiat Money: The Root of Economic and Health Decline

If Americans searched for the precise date on which America’s singular dominance of the world’s economy ended, they might settle on August 15, 1971.

Nixon's Shock. President Richard Nixon's decision on August 15, 1971, to sever the dollar's convertibility to gold marked a pivotal moment, unleashing fiat money—currency not backed by a physical commodity. This move, driven by Keynesian economic theories, aimed to combat rising unemployment and inflation but ultimately granted the government unprecedented power to create money. This power, akin to a "philosopher's stone," enabled the hidden confiscation of wealth from citizens.

Inflationary Theft. The expansion of the money supply through fiat currency allows governments to spend without direct taxation, effectively devaluing existing money and transferring wealth from the populace to those in control of the printing press. This "hidden tax" disproportionately impacts the middle and lower classes, who see their purchasing power erode, while the wealthy benefit from early access to newly created money and tax loopholes. The national debt has ballooned, with the US government's debt-to-GDP ratio reaching 123% by 2022, a level that would deem an individual ineligible for a loan.

Societal Impact. The shift to fiat money has not only led to economic instability but also fostered a "high-time preference" culture, disincentivizing savings and long-term planning. This economic degradation is intrinsically linked to the decline in public health, as the government's need to obscure inflation drives policies that promote cheaper, mass-produced, and nutritionally inferior foods. The consequences are a sicker, poorer populace, struggling to afford essential, healthy sustenance.

2. The Diet-Heart Hypothesis: A Flawed Foundation

If Keys’s bold claims were true, where was the evidence?

Ancel Keys's Theory. In the 1950s, as heart attacks skyrocketed, physiologist Ancel Keys proposed the "diet-heart hypothesis," linking saturated fats in animal products to high cholesterol and heart disease. Despite initial skepticism from the scientific community due to a lack of causal evidence, Keys aggressively promoted his theory, selectively using data from his "Seven Countries Study" to support his predetermined conclusions. He dismissed contradictory evidence, such as populations thriving on high-fat diets.

Corporate Influence. Keys's influence grew significantly after he secured a position on the American Heart Association's (AHA) Nutrition Committee in 1961. The AHA, a small nonprofit, received a substantial $1.7 million donation from Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer of Crisco vegetable oil. This funding allowed the AHA to become a national authority, promoting Keys's hypothesis and advising Americans to replace saturated animal fats with polyunsaturated vegetable oils, a massive public relations coup for Procter & Gamble.

Suppressed Evidence. The definitive Minnesota Coronary Survey (1968-1973), a randomized controlled study co-led by Keys, found no decreased risk of death from substituting animal fats with vegetable oils; in fact, it showed an increased mortality rate for those on the "heart healthy" diet. These devastating results, which contradicted Keys's entire career, were concealed for 16 years and only published in an obscure journal in 1989, long after his hypothesis had become entrenched in national policy.

3. Religious and Corporate Alliance: Shaping Our Plates

The relationship as seen by D. John Yudkin of the department of nutrition and dietetics of the University of London is due to a misrepresentation of the relevant statistics.

Anti-Meat Origins. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded by Ellen White, promoted vegetarianism based on prophetic visions and the belief that meat inspired "sinful carnal desires." John Harvey Kellogg, a prominent Adventist physician, championed this view, inventing bland cereals like Corn Flakes to suppress sexual impulses. This religious conviction laid early groundwork for an anti-meat agenda, influencing public perception of food.

Environmental Convergence. In the 1970s, the Adventists found a powerful ally in the burgeoning environmental movement, which echoed their anti-meat stance. Books like Frances Moore Lappé's "Diet for a Small Planet" and Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" fueled fears of overpopulation and food scarcity, framing meat consumption as an ecological sin. This alliance created a shared worldview that humanity's actions, particularly meat-eating, would lead to apocalyptic environmental retribution.

Propaganda and Profit. This coalition, though a small percentage of the population, exerted outsized influence, leveraging media and academic platforms to promote plant-based diets. For corporations, this aligned perfectly with their profit motives, as mass-produced plant-based products (like vegetable oils, corn, and soy) were cheaper to produce than animal products. This created a self-perpetuating echo chamber, where religious and environmental claims were amplified as scientific truth, driving dietary shifts that benefited industry.

4. Government's "Masterly Manipulation" of Food Prices

The trend continues until the villagers discover that the true culprits aren’t the shopkeeper or the orchard owner, but the fiat authority who, through the printing of extra paper, has increased their own wealth at the expense of everyone else’s.

Hiding Inflation. Governments, acutely aware of the historical link between rising food prices and civil unrest, employ sophisticated tactics to obscure the true cost of food inflation caused by fiat money printing. These methods include direct executive or legislative policies, large financial subsidization of specific crops, rigged statistical metrics, and outright deception. The goal is to maintain the perception of affordability and prevent public backlash.

Subsidizing Unhealth. Post-1971, the US government, particularly under Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, aggressively incentivized the mass production of cheap, plant-based crops like corn, soy, and sugar. Butz's "get big or get out" policy consolidated small family farms into corporate mega-farms, turning America's heartlands into industrial grain processing machines. These subsidies distorted the market, making nutrient-deficient foods artificially cheap and abundant, while natural, nutrient-rich animal products became increasingly expensive.

Manipulating Metrics and Deception. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), originally designed to track cost of living, was manipulated by authorities to understate inflation. By changing the "basket of goods" to reflect consumer shifts to cheaper alternatives, the CPI could magically show low inflation even as real food prices soared. Beyond statistics, direct deception, like President Johnson's phony warning about egg cholesterol to reduce demand and prices, further illustrates the government's willingness to mislead the public to manage food costs.

5. The Agro-Medical Industrial Complex: Profiting from Sickness

The profit incentive of the Medical Industrial Complex is not to see people get healthier but to see them get sicker.

Corrupted Science. The Agro-Industrial Complex systematically funded university laboratories and academic departments to produce industry-friendly nutrition research. Harvard nutritionists Frederick Stare and Mark Hegsted, for example, accepted sugar industry bribes to publish fraudulent studies that implicated saturated fat, not sugar, as the cause of heart disease, effectively discrediting critics like John Yudkin. This model of "pay-to-play" research became entrenched, ensuring that scientific findings aligned with corporate profit motives.

Marketing Disease. This complex promotes addictive, nutrient-depleted processed foods, while simultaneously pushing expensive pharmaceutical solutions for the resulting health crises. Recent examples include the industry-funded Tufts University Food Compass, which ranked sugary cereals healthier than meat, eggs, and cheese, and the coordinated media campaign promoting anti-obesity drugs like Wegovy as solutions to a "brain disease," rather than addressing dietary causes. These campaigns often feature "experts" with undisclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies.

Systemic Sickness. The Medical Industrial Complex thrives on a sick population. Obesity, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses, largely driven by the fiat-subsidized, processed food diet, create a massive market for drugs and treatments. This system ensures continuous profits for pharmaceutical companies, who also wield immense lobbying power to influence legislation, such as mandating taxpayer coverage for expensive anti-obesity drugs, further entrenching a cycle where sickness is monetized.

6. Institutionalizing Unhealth: Federal Dietary Guidelines

The new guidelines were already being used in school lunch programs, which are trying to reduce salt and fat in foods.

National Policy Shift. In 1980, the US government formally adopted its first national nutrition policy, the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans," based on Mark Hegsted's work. These guidelines institutionalized the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, advising Americans to reduce total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol, and increase consumption of grains, starches, and fiber. This marked a fundamental change, moving the government from mere suggestions to direct mandates on what an entire nation should eat.

The Food Pyramid's Legacy. The 1992 USDA Food Pyramid further solidified this policy, recommending six to eleven servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta daily as the base of a healthy diet, while placing meat and healthy fats at the top, to be consumed sparingly. This visual guide, widely disseminated in schools and businesses, effectively served as government-approved propaganda for metabolic destruction, promoting refined flour products and chemical additives over nutrient-dense whole foods.

School Lunch Transformation. Federal programs like the National School Lunch Program were restructured to comply with these guidelines, replacing nutrient-rich meat and healthy fats with vegetable oils and processed grains. Whole milk was banned, replaced by sugary flavored skim milk. This systematically exposed American youth to an addictive and metabolically destructive diet, setting them up for a lifetime of food addiction and chronic disease, all funded by fiat dollars.

7. Fiat's Devastating Health and Autonomy Costs

The greatest wealth is health.

Plummeting Health. The past five decades of fiat food policies have led to a catastrophic decline in American health. Obesity rates have skyrocketed from 13% in the 1960s to over 40% today, with children showing even more pronounced weight gain. Diabetes diagnoses have surged, particularly among youth. Life expectancy, historically on the rise, has begun to reverse, and physical height, an indicator of nutritional health, has plateaued. These health crises are directly linked to the shift away from traditional, meat-based diets to processed, high-carbohydrate foods.

Mental Health Crisis. A deterioration of mental health has correlated with the destruction of the food supply. Depression rates have more than doubled since the 1970s, with over one in five adults reporting mental illness. Research suggests that chronic inflammation from high sugar intake can trigger imbalances in brain chemicals, leading to depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. The widespread use of antidepressants, whose active chemicals often contaminate drinking water, further highlights this societal mental health crisis.

Loss of Autonomy. Fiat necessitates the infantilization of its people, undermining personal responsibility and self-ownership. By promoting the narrative that obesity and chronic diseases are due to genetics or "brain diseases" rather than dietary choices, authorities create an opening to control individual health decisions. The suppression of vital information, like the concealed Minnesota Coronary Survey results, and the censorship of dissenting views, further erode the public's ability to make informed choices, leaving them dependent on a system that profits from their sickness.

8. Bitcoin: The Antidote to Fiat's Poison

Bitcoin is a software for reimposing reality.

Ending Theft and Restoring Savings. Bitcoin, as the hardest money on earth with a fixed supply of 21 million coins, offers a decentralized alternative to fiat currency. It ends the hidden confiscation of wealth through inflation, allowing individuals to preserve their purchasing power and save for the future. Unlike gold, which is susceptible to government confiscation due to its centralized nature, Bitcoin's self-custody feature makes it resistant to seizure, empowering individuals with true ownership over their wealth.

Disincentivizing War and Instability. Fiat money printing has enabled governments to fund endless wars without public consent or direct taxation. A Bitcoin standard would cut off this economic lifeblood of war, forcing governments to finance conflicts through transparent taxation or war bonds, requiring public approval. It would also end the cyclical economic turbulence and corporate bailouts inherent in the fiat system, promoting stability and growth by allowing free markets to function without manipulation.

Attracting High-Quality Leadership. By removing the pervasive grift, kickbacks, and pay-to-play schemes inherent in the fiat political landscape, Bitcoin would diminish the incentives for power grabs and the accumulation of generational wealth by elected officials. A hard currency would force lawmakers to focus on serving the American taxpayer, rather than catering to corporate interests or engaging in short-term, self-serving policies, thereby attracting low-time preference, high-quality individuals to public office.

9. Reclaiming Health and Autonomy with a Carnivore Diet

My conclusion from years of experimenting on myself and reading the experiments of others online is that the more fatty red meat you eat, the healthier you are and the fuller and more satisfied you feel.

Defeating Fiat Foods. Bitcoin would dismantle the fiat system's motivation to obscure inflationary theft, making nutrient-dense, natural foods like red meat affordable and accessible. This would end the fifty-year "gaslighting campaign" that pushed cheaper, mass-produced grain and sugar-based substitutes, allowing reality to reassert itself. The consumption of red meat, a natural and satiating food, would curb overeating and provide essential nutrients, reversing the current obesity and disease epidemics.

Restoring Natural Human Health. Humans evolved on a meat-based diet, which enabled the dramatic growth of our brains and supported optimal physical and mental function. The modern fiat diet, high in carbohydrates and chemical additives, has led to widespread addiction, lethargy, and cognitive decline. By making meat affordable and removing subsidies for industrial trash, Bitcoin would facilitate a return to this natural human state, unlocking untapped potential for productive labor, creative art, and overall well-being.

Empowering Individual Choice. A Bitcoin standard would eliminate the corporate and governmental propaganda that has conditioned the public to deviate from their natural instincts and subjugate their reason to external authority. With access to accurate information and the financial means to choose healthy foods, individuals would regain autonomy over their health. This reassertion of reality would empower people to make informed decisions, fostering critical thinking and reversing the societal-wide loss in the ability to think long-term, ultimately leading to a healthier, more sovereign populace.