Mythologies take many forms, both from one culture to the next and within each individual culture.
It's probably safe to say that all myths have some measure of truth, or some sort of logic, to them. We think of the Roman pantheon of goddesses and gods as mythology, and most people look on such beliefs as foolish and simpleminded, but Christianity and Buddhism are as mythological in their own ways as Roman pantheism is. For example, economic theory is a mythology of its own sort, which explains the world in its own way based on its own assumptions about the basic nature of the world and of people. The particular mythology of our culture that I want to illuminate in this article is our mythology of food. I'm interested in this food mythology because its effects have been and continue to be so destructive.