GM Nostr
The elites never want us to thrive, just barely survive!!
Text from S. Hoole
Feudal Japan, 1600s.
The Tokugawa Shogunate enforced strict dietary class divisions.
Peasant diet (90% of population):
Rice (if they were lucky, often millet or barley)
Vegetables
Miso soup
Fish: Small amounts, usually dried
Meat: Illegal under Buddhist dietary laws
Samurai diet:
Higher quality rice
Fresh fish (including fatty tuna, eel)
Eggs
Some managed to acquire wild boar and deer despite restrictions
Dashi (rich bone broth)
Physical differences were stark:
Average peasant height: 5'1" - 5'3" Average samurai height: 5'5" - 5'7"
Peasants: Bowed legs from malnutrition, early aging, poor health
Samurai: Robust, strong, better posture, longer lives
The Japanese peasant diet was so inadequate that when Japan opened to the West in 1868 and dietary restrictions lifted, average Japanese height increased 4 inches within two generations.
Just from access to more animal protein.
2025: "The traditional Japanese diet is the healthiest in the world!"
Traditional for whom? Peasants or samurai?
You're celebrating the diet that kept 90% of the population stunted and malnourished.