Final Exam Question #1

Elliot Levine

Throughout time there has always been a constant factor to what grows on earth and what people will eat, food. Food has been there since the beginning starting with the fresh fruit and vegetables that grow from trees and the ground to bushes and under the sea. Food is everywhere that you can go making it one of the larges systems known to mend and why every living thing must eat food to survive. See food has also evolved or changed over time as people and animals have. Food was a little bit different though, food didn’t become something new by time people and animals made it that way with their materials that they learned when they were changing. For an example corn has always grown from the ground since the times of the Indians but after when the Indians changed into what we are today we started to use pesticides and other types of plantation growth methods to make more corn and different types of corn all together. The same for other types of foods can be said for they have the same outcome as the corn did.

First I would like to start by talking about food in the past. Past food has always been what it was grown and meant to be for. It would grow because it was where it naturally grew and would be come what its physical and chemical structure was made to be. People and animals that then lived where this specific food was growing would take advantage of it by picking or plucking it out and then eating it. Also back then when it came to food it was more of a natural taste when it came to food because they did add any other extra spices or flavoring to distort the real taste of the food. And also cattle and other animals would be slaughtered just when they need a meal and not on a regular basis.

Now I want to start talking about food that is currently in the present of our living. Food has come a long way since the beginning and has changed drastically for some and for others have stayed the same. Some of the main changes that have been happening to food lately is food is now getting more scientific treatment like chemicals and other things being sprayed over them for growing reasons. And also for the reason that the food needs to be protected from other animals or insects that want to eat the food growing. Food taste has changed now that people have been using spices and other added flavorings to enhance the taste of natural food changing the way that cultural dishes are made and served. But probably the most drastic change that has been made is that instead of animals being killed when they were needed for dinner. Now cattle and livestock have been put on lines in industrial food factories and is being slaughtered in cruel ways one by one each meeting a horrible death all for them to become a burger at a fast food restaurant let alone an unhealthy burger.

If I had to predict the way that food will grow into the future I would have to say that based on historical trends more chemical and scientific testing on the food will increase. More chemicals will be dropped for growing and food will be desecrated and destroyed of there natural taste because of all the unnatural things that people will be doing to the food over time. Also I believe that cattle will continue to be in industrial factories coming to horrible deaths all for becoming a fast food burger until there are no more cows left to be sloughed. If out of everything that I learned from this class is one thing it is that people have turned food into something that it is not and something that it wasn’t intended for. People have changed what food was meant to do and even though they think there making food better they’re really making it worse. Food and the natural taste of food are doomed, as we know it.