Industrial Food

Everything is being industrial by human being now, especially, food. Industrial food is like what we can get from the supermarket in front of our houses or apartments. In order to get deeper understanding of industrial food, it can be broken down into two words, “industry” and “food.” Industry is all about production, it’s a “formal” and “fast” way to producing the supplies. Food is what every single living organism needs for surviving. So the combination of both words is to use a “formal” way to produce food. Industrial food means using the least amount of energy and costing the least amount of money to produce the largest amount of food. Should industrial food be the best for every single of us? No, it is just better for some of us to get as much food as we want. But the way that we get the food is not really good for both of us and our world.
Most of the industrial foods are processing and producing by machines and a few farmers or workers. The reason that we use machines instead of human being is because machines can work longer time than human being, faster than human being, and cheaper than human being. But the most important reason of why we need industrial food is there are too many of us, who need more and more food. In the old time, one farmer might feed about 10 people, but now, one farmer can produce the food for 149 people. If we say the speed of the farmer producing food in the old time is like a turtle walking, then now it is like a rabbit running. Is it really the rabbit can run faster than turtle? Not really, we all know that the turtle won at the end of the story.
On one hand, it is great to find a better way for production, and it will be more efficient. On the other hand, producing food is not only about the quantity, but the quality is also an important factor, too. The way that we produce food is being updated or invented everyday by the scientist. They do help increasing the quantity of food production, but not the quality of the food. They do that is not because they want to produce food for the need of people, it is because they want to make more money by doing less work and cost less money.
Today, we’ve already gotten enough food for every single of us. It is not like everyone gets food (a piece of bread), it is like everyone can be fed fully. But why are there still many people are hungry until they die? Can you imagine how much food we throw into the garbage bin everyday? In the cafeteria of the School of the Future, there are 4 to 5 garbage bin are half full everyday. The garbage in the bin is not the plate, but food. Why should we produce more food for being waste? Is that really good to have industrial food?
Nobody really cares about how the food is produced, because we do not know where the foods come from, the only thing that we know is we can buy whatever food we want in a store ten minute away from our houses. One will not care about one’s glasses when one wears them, until one can’t see when one loses one’s glasses. We have had enough food, but we abuse them. If we do not live in America, then we may start to think how food important to us.
Moreover, the quality of industrial food is never being considered when producing. As scientists are thinking how to produce food faster, the quality is being less and less important to the industrial food production. The scientists are always trying to find out a way faster to produce food, but not produce better food.
In the industrial farmer, the animals (chicken, pigs, cows) are treated immorally. From the date that they were born to the date that they were killed, the only two things they did are eating and sleeping. In other words, they just need to grow as fast as they could and to get as fat as they could. Unlike their ancestors, they never get room to move or to exercise, but they can get food as much as they want and whenever they want. Their ancestors had their freedom of life. They would not be kept into one room for their whole life. Even though they might not get enough food, they had longer life than the animals now. At least they will not be killed when they are strong.
But the animals now are different, their purpose of their lives are produce food for human being. They are redesigned to be grow faster and faster by human being. They become unnatural, they become something that they shouldn’t be. They become one of products of this industrial world. They no longer are animal, but one of food products. Sometimes, the scientist may use some chemical that bad for both the animals and the human being to increase the speed of the animals grown. After they reach a certain size or period, they will be killed. Their lives are just one tenth as long as their ancestor. They become meaningless in this world. It is like using the air to fill the room. They are not treated as a living organism, and the products made of them are bad quality. Then what is the real purpose for producing all these industrial food?
The industrial food can be a good idea to produce food faster and better quality, but it is misunderstanding to be used. It is a bad idea to use a wrong way to produce some bad food for us. Nobody will get the benefit for doing that, except the producer.
The way that we treat the animals is the same way in which we treat human being. The purpose of reproduction and growth of the animals is to make food for human being. The purpose of reproduction and growth of human being is to work for other. We try to get the most benefit from the animals at the same time we try to get the most benefit from the other people. The animals are the main material of the industrial food production. We are the energy of the industrial world. If the lives of the animals are meaningless for industrial food production, then our lives are meaningless for the industrial world.
That means our lives are just for working. It is useless to study in the school and to think about our future. It is because the only thing that we do after we graduate from college is just the same as the animals. Nobody wants to have the same life as a cow or a pig. We got to think about what the purpose for doing everything that we are doing now. We are not a part of the industrial world, but we are controlling it. We are not work anybody, but ourselves. So the cows, the chicken, and the pigs are not designed living for human being.
If we do not accept industrial food as what we do now, then we will not be the servants of the industrial work, and the animals will not be suffer by being industrial food. There should a better way for benefiting both human being and the animals, but industrial food is not the one.

Joking in Wendy's

I went to Wendy's with James, we tried to make fun of Wendy's food. we asked for something that they do not have. The cashier just wanted us to go. We just held the line for about 2 minutes. Then we just went out together.