Insight - Why kicking our unhealthy oil and hamburger habits is so hard

You might be asking, dear reader, why I’m delving into the virtues and vices of hamburgers when there are bigger things happening in the world. In short, it’s because you can think of that hamburger as an analogy for oil in one too many ways.

Hamburgers are sometimes described as “the perfect food” and sometimes as the source of all evil.

They are delicious – well, a good one is. I haven’t had one, or any meat, in well over a decade. (See: “evil, source of all.”) But I very much remember the taste. They also pack quite the caloric punch, although that doesn’t exactly make them nutritious.