As the US billionaires and big fat corporations are thriving like never before, I'm sure the trickle-down-effect will drop any minute. All will be good eventually.
It has a certain dark humor. There is more to this but I’ll give shortish and simplish. Early American colonists tended to a light breakfast- porridge, maybe some bread and jam or some beans or some type of warmed meal like corn meal etc. later on, rice, cold meats, jellied and preserved deer meat and such could be staples. Over time we started to see farms and ranches and homesteads become more common and we started to see “hearty” breakfasts using things that were abundant on small farms and at home like lots of meats and eggs and dairy.
The Industrial Revolution moved people away from farms and the country into cities and towns. Cereal makers started marketing lighter breakfasts as healthy and better. Cereals became a popular breakfast. Around WW2, meat and farm producers states vying for the crown back, the US government joined their cause, the U.S. government has traditionally subsidized farms and farming and they also wanted to make sure army recruits were packing some mass..
.. and strength. So the government and marketers brought the “big breakfast” back again- meat and eggs and heavy starches and sugars. Cereals increasingly moved towards being closer to breakfast candy than simply grains as Americans demanded sweet breakfast treats and heavy flavors- though there was already a trend towards pastries and such I skipped for simplicity.
So I mean… for the most part, through most of American history breakfast has been a battlefield of class distinction and marketing. Now we are being told not to eat the heavy breakfasts that became a tradition because largely because we were told to eat them.
California passes law requiring cage-free eggs, framers complain this will drastically increase the cost of producing eggs. Uninformed people blame Farmers/capitalism.
See California Proposition 12, also known as the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.
The Industrial Revolution moved people away from farms and the country into cities and towns. Cereal makers started marketing lighter breakfasts as healthy and better. Cereals became a popular breakfast. Around WW2, meat and farm producers states vying for the crown back, the US government joined their cause, the U.S. government has traditionally subsidized farms and farming and they also wanted to make sure army recruits were packing some mass..
So I mean… for the most part, through most of American history breakfast has been a battlefield of class distinction and marketing. Now we are being told not to eat the heavy breakfasts that became a tradition because largely because we were told to eat them.
See California Proposition 12, also known as the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.