Food is a major factor to human survival. Presently food is required to have a certain taste that would satisfy your taste buds. That certain satisfaction was highly reached once the Industrial Age began. Food would constantly be manufactured and the process of production was sped. Industrial Food became the food of our nation as it takes over every aspect of the American culture.
Industrialized food now a days are over produced and the customers are over weight. It is a classic system of supply and demand. It approximately takes an average 5 minutes to receive your order and behind the scenes in the meat packing industries, it takes less than a minute to decapitate a fully grown cattle. The process has been sped to a point of outrageous production. Fast Food Nation by: Eric Shlosser emphasizes the blueprints of a meat packing industry, the experience of every worker of the fast food world and the dirty side of our meat. Both the movie and the book previewed the fast food life as a vicious circle. To make a simple “Big One” takes a whole bunch of work from both humans, machines and animals. The labor is unnatural and so are the food sold at every fast food links.
With similar intentions, the book Omnivores Dilemma by: Michael Pollan is practically narrated about every corner of the Industrialized world. From the over production of grains, the transportation of the grains and all the accessible products, it would take probably less than a crew of men to create corn syrup. Omnivores Dilemma also flowed smooth as a book and the ending was superb with the whole family enjoying a McDonalds meal. Without all the drama which galore in Fast Food Nation, Omnivores Dilemma is more of a factual book than a great story.
Our Daily Bread is an amazing movie that taught the origins of our commonly eaten food. Without any conversations, Our Daily bread contained enough knowledge to cut off your satisfaction of meat or chicken. The metaphor of the movie was basically to observe the casualness of eating bread and the food that is nearly trash.
The Industrialized food society is also a major factor of the effects on our polluted world. Besides the machinery, once the manufactured food is ready it needs to be shipped off to other countries which cost a lot of fuel. Either by boat, plane, train or trucks, products are transported from all corners of the planet. Gas prices are also at it's peek and shipping all those products effect the peek.
Cruelty to animals are also a major part of the nation's industrialized food. Unlike the overworked, and low paid factory workers, the animals are cruely cared for. With very little and dirty space to live in, the animals are also killed in a matter of seconds. These animals are over produced and hormones enhanced. Humans are literally taking advantage of what nature offers. With hands of god species are easily reproduced and killed without thought of a free life. It's also the same process for plants and vegetables.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
What is good to eat? [FINAL]
Big Macs, French fries, cheese quesadillas and chicken tenders are daily meals to certain Americans. The taste at times are unbelievable but to be honest are artificial and unhealthy. Fast food restaurants serve billions daily as the Industrialized society grows and advances. It comes to a point that the food of our industrialized society can not compare with the cultural cuisine of foreign lands in healthiness. Without the abundance of used and artificial oil, the cultural food of other countries are far more nutritional and healthy.
Fast food comes from factories that manufacture alternated food supplies. Those factories create an overproduction of meat, vegetables, grains and etc. Then the meat, vegetables, and grains are then shipped to restaruant chains where the supplies are pre-heated, cooked with artificial oil or even used oil. The so called fast food are practically low cost and are easily compatible to being kept fresh for days. They have absolutely no fiber or complex carbohydrates in them, and they are packed with saturated fat and cholesterol. In the short term, eating meat, dairy products, and eggs is likely to make a person fat and lethargic [1]. Its taste are preserved and the artificial flavor follows the basic taste of for example chicken and beef. All that is needed are the hydrogenated vegetable oil that are pumped into fast foods which contain high amounts of trans fat [2] . Besides all the un healthiness of artificialized meat and vegetables, “hydrogenated vegetable oil” is added and a typical Mcdonalds’ cheeseburger contains 320 calories [3] . Humans do not think of what they eat especially here in the US as billions are served daily (Mcdonalds logo). In the movie “Our Daily Bread” there are scenes of an abundance of fruits and vegetables being produced, thousand of little chicks mistreated and labeled, and bulls living in spaces filled with their own manure. There are thousands of factories like the ones shown in the movie that ship food out to many fast food chains.
Although fast food chains have opened around the world especially in the Filippines, certain countries still keep their ancestrial diet in tact. A typical Filippino diet may consist of fresh cooked rice, a meat which would come from a local farm, and vegetables. In many of the recipes that follow, vegetable ingredients that are used may be difficult to locate in ordinary food stores or supermarkets [4]. Each dish are either cooked in vinegar, sour fruit of vegetable or even coconut milk. There are fried dishes but without the use of “hydrogenated” oil. In comparison to a value meal from Mcdonalds, a Filippino dish taste original and is 5 times healthier due to the amount difference of calories.
A value meal always consist of a meat. The only difference is that the meat are usually from a meat packing industry. A factory that genetically alternates the animals body figure to produce more meat. The industries also tries to save as much money and at the same time tries to make more. A fast food meal may consist certain disease of e. coli from the meat. From the movie “Fast Food Nation”, the cows are killed in the most ridiculous ways making it possible for their intestine to burst. The spread of feces from the intestine also makes it possible for the strains of e. coli to reside in the muscle of the meat, this meat is then shipped to local restaruants and shopping markets. Our nation of fast food is extremely dangerous and unhealthy. From Mcdonalds to even local supermarkets the industrial food life has taken over.
1. (http://www.goveg.com/veganism_health.asp).
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food#Health_concerns
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food#Health_concerns
4. http://asiarecipe.com/phifood1.html
Fast food comes from factories that manufacture alternated food supplies. Those factories create an overproduction of meat, vegetables, grains and etc. Then the meat, vegetables, and grains are then shipped to restaruant chains where the supplies are pre-heated, cooked with artificial oil or even used oil. The so called fast food are practically low cost and are easily compatible to being kept fresh for days. They have absolutely no fiber or complex carbohydrates in them, and they are packed with saturated fat and cholesterol. In the short term, eating meat, dairy products, and eggs is likely to make a person fat and lethargic [1]. Its taste are preserved and the artificial flavor follows the basic taste of for example chicken and beef. All that is needed are the hydrogenated vegetable oil that are pumped into fast foods which contain high amounts of trans fat [2] . Besides all the un healthiness of artificialized meat and vegetables, “hydrogenated vegetable oil” is added and a typical Mcdonalds’ cheeseburger contains 320 calories [3] . Humans do not think of what they eat especially here in the US as billions are served daily (Mcdonalds logo). In the movie “Our Daily Bread” there are scenes of an abundance of fruits and vegetables being produced, thousand of little chicks mistreated and labeled, and bulls living in spaces filled with their own manure. There are thousands of factories like the ones shown in the movie that ship food out to many fast food chains.
Although fast food chains have opened around the world especially in the Filippines, certain countries still keep their ancestrial diet in tact. A typical Filippino diet may consist of fresh cooked rice, a meat which would come from a local farm, and vegetables. In many of the recipes that follow, vegetable ingredients that are used may be difficult to locate in ordinary food stores or supermarkets [4]. Each dish are either cooked in vinegar, sour fruit of vegetable or even coconut milk. There are fried dishes but without the use of “hydrogenated” oil. In comparison to a value meal from Mcdonalds, a Filippino dish taste original and is 5 times healthier due to the amount difference of calories.
A value meal always consist of a meat. The only difference is that the meat are usually from a meat packing industry. A factory that genetically alternates the animals body figure to produce more meat. The industries also tries to save as much money and at the same time tries to make more. A fast food meal may consist certain disease of e. coli from the meat. From the movie “Fast Food Nation”, the cows are killed in the most ridiculous ways making it possible for their intestine to burst. The spread of feces from the intestine also makes it possible for the strains of e. coli to reside in the muscle of the meat, this meat is then shipped to local restaruants and shopping markets. Our nation of fast food is extremely dangerous and unhealthy. From Mcdonalds to even local supermarkets the industrial food life has taken over.
1. (http://www.goveg.com/veganism_health.asp).
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food#Health_concerns
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food#Health_concerns
4. http://asiarecipe.com/phifood1.html
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