This brings to mind the Terry Pratchett book Good Omens, where Famine, one of the four riders of the Apocalypse (although there used to be five, I thought Kaos was awesome;) creates fast food that tastes great, but is essentially dust. This could be very dangerous. People could feel they are eating something really good, when in fact, they are starving their bodies. Some people may think this a good thing, but what would happen if people didn't stop? IMO people should learn to just control themselves, and give up those temptations (ice cream, crap food etc.) and just learn. What kind of world will it be, where we don't know how to control our every impulse? I think it would be very sad. We would become like animals. I agree with many other posters. We should be concentrating on things that really matter, like cures for AIDS and ways to curb global pollution.
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This brings to mind the Terry Pratchett book Good Omens, where Famine, one of the four riders of the Apocalypse (although there used to be five, I thought Kaos was awesome ;) creates fast food that tastes great, but is essentially dust. This could be very dangerous. People could feel they are eating something really good, when in fact, they are starving their bodies. Some people may think this a good thing, but what would happen if people didn't stop? IMO people should learn to just control themselves, and give up those temptations (ice cream, crap food etc.) and just learn. What kind of world will it be, where we don't know how to control our every impulse? I think it would be very sad. We would become like animals. I agree with many other posters. We should be concentrating on things that really matter, like cures for AIDS and ways to curb global pollution.