Whatever politics touches, it taints. No surprise here.

But one of the items you mentioned is food. I sort-of doubt that we have a great progress in food. People seem to be much fatter than ever before. That would suggest a lot of cheap calories, but less quality of food overall. Unless we measure progress in food by raw caloric content, we might actually be regressing.

The burden of metabolic diseases is certainly at an all-time high and not a single country in the world managed to reduce it meaningfully again.