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...The Meal-in-a-Pill in
Food in the USA: A Reader. Ed. Carole Counihan. New York: Routledge, p. 59-74.

Belasco addresses an interesting notion about what the future of food will be like. Will it be simply about taking nourishment pills as seen on the Jetson's cartoon? The author thinks not and talks about he one size fits all mentality and concludes that these ideas never work. By the time this article ends, the author is talking about the sociology of food and how food has meaning. The argument is a good one. The meal in the pill idea is simple. Everyone would be extraordinarily healthy and it is doable, but this piece talks about why it can never be. The obvious answer, and this is the conclusion that the author comes to, is that food is more than mere sustenance. There are meanings attached to food. The author seemed to be correct and there is much evidence of this, but he might have addressed other issues is well. There...