I agree with the quote, “Food in our culture is one aspect of a larger nightmare.” In American culture, food is like a natural thing to everyone, because everybody can find food within 1 mile in American cities. But does that mean everybody is fulfilled by what they have now? No, not at all, we just want to get more and more food, and more and more things to fulfill our desire.
The food that we have now is all about quantity, but nothing about quality. Everybody in United States wants to get as much money as they want. So they try to make as many products as possible with cheapest cost. So they are using machines instead of human for doing all work, using fuel oil instead of food for providing energy. More and more products are produced, at the same rate, the quality of the products are decreasing.
The way that American eats is making themselves hate food. Nobody gets a quality time period for his or her meal in the cities. They just grab their food from the fast food restaurant and eat that within 30 minutes. They do not care about how it taste, because they just put the food into their mouth while reading the newspaper or watching the TV. They just pay no attention to what they are eating.
In addition, food equals to waste in American. Everybody thinks that it is OK to waste food, because there is too much food that we do not even care about the left over. 5 to 15 minutes to restaurant or supermarket. There is no way to be hungry in U.S. It is hard to look at a bunch of food while we are thinking about the hungry people in the other side of the planet. As we throw the food into garbage can, someone may die by hunger.
In conclusion, food is not only a bad thing in our culture, but also it is making us feel bad about what we did to our planet and ourselves. While we are eating, we should think more about the background of the food and the people who die without food.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Future Food
What is food? Food has different meaning to everybody in different time period, but food is something that we need, no matter who we are. Without food we can’t even be alive.
In the past, people didn’t need to work for money, the only thing they did was to hunt food for themselves or their families. They cannot store food, so they need to find food and try to get enough food everyday. Getting enough food for survive is the only desire they had at that time. They did not even choose what to eat, but they just want to get what can be eaten. Their foods are fruits and meat of some wild animal. In the beginning, they did not even know how to cook. They just ate the raw food. After many years, they started to cook the raw food.
Now, it is a different story. We already have enough food for everyone in this planet, but not everybody getting enough food for surviving. Someone may get more food than enough and they just waste, someone may just get nothing to eat.
Even though most of the people have enough food for surviving, nobody really cares about the food so much since nobody really knows what they are eating. The only food that we are eating now is just fuel oil.
We do not need to hunt food by ourselves, it is much more inconvenience to get food from the restaurants or supermarket. When we buy the food that we think of, we may just get something that we never think about. Beef, oranges, and rice are the things that we can get from the supermarket.
How do they grow up? Where are they come from? These seem like two simple questions, but the answers are totally different from what we expect. The cows have as much food as they want, but their food is not grass, but corns. That’s not what a cow should eat. And their living condition is so poor that they only get a little room for moving. We just want to grow more food for others, but what we did is making the nature change. Everything is change to be unnatural. We only care about the quantity, but not about the quality. The food came from miles and miles far away. So we used transportations to transport the food that we want. By doing these, we need fuel oil to feed our machines whether growing or transporting the food. So we are actually eating the fuel oil.
At the same time, we never really take time to taste the food that we eat everyday. We just eat that in 10 to 20 minutes for fulfilling the needs of our stomach. So it is like putting the oil into a machine so that it will get the energy to function.
After we understand what food we are eating, we can easily think of the food that we eat in the future. It will be like some medicine that we took today. It is small. it only takes 1 or 2 seconds to finish. And it will be containing all the energy that we need for one day or even one week, and all the nutrition that we need. It sounds like impossible, but we also never think of the food that we have now in the old time.
Even though people may know that is not really “food”, but they may just think that is what they want and what they need. Then we might be just like the cows that I describe above.
In the past, people didn’t need to work for money, the only thing they did was to hunt food for themselves or their families. They cannot store food, so they need to find food and try to get enough food everyday. Getting enough food for survive is the only desire they had at that time. They did not even choose what to eat, but they just want to get what can be eaten. Their foods are fruits and meat of some wild animal. In the beginning, they did not even know how to cook. They just ate the raw food. After many years, they started to cook the raw food.
Now, it is a different story. We already have enough food for everyone in this planet, but not everybody getting enough food for surviving. Someone may get more food than enough and they just waste, someone may just get nothing to eat.
Even though most of the people have enough food for surviving, nobody really cares about the food so much since nobody really knows what they are eating. The only food that we are eating now is just fuel oil.
We do not need to hunt food by ourselves, it is much more inconvenience to get food from the restaurants or supermarket. When we buy the food that we think of, we may just get something that we never think about. Beef, oranges, and rice are the things that we can get from the supermarket.
How do they grow up? Where are they come from? These seem like two simple questions, but the answers are totally different from what we expect. The cows have as much food as they want, but their food is not grass, but corns. That’s not what a cow should eat. And their living condition is so poor that they only get a little room for moving. We just want to grow more food for others, but what we did is making the nature change. Everything is change to be unnatural. We only care about the quantity, but not about the quality. The food came from miles and miles far away. So we used transportations to transport the food that we want. By doing these, we need fuel oil to feed our machines whether growing or transporting the food. So we are actually eating the fuel oil.
At the same time, we never really take time to taste the food that we eat everyday. We just eat that in 10 to 20 minutes for fulfilling the needs of our stomach. So it is like putting the oil into a machine so that it will get the energy to function.
After we understand what food we are eating, we can easily think of the food that we eat in the future. It will be like some medicine that we took today. It is small. it only takes 1 or 2 seconds to finish. And it will be containing all the energy that we need for one day or even one week, and all the nutrition that we need. It sounds like impossible, but we also never think of the food that we have now in the old time.
Even though people may know that is not really “food”, but they may just think that is what they want and what they need. Then we might be just like the cows that I describe above.
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