Reflection About Food

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While in Susan Vespoli’s English 102 class, we were assigned to write a few essays. In our essays we had to do research as well as a work cited page. During the class, we were given topics on what we were to write about. The first essay was on a topic that is of high interest to me. Food. I am defiantly an avid foodie but I wasn’t just wring about my love for food. I chose to write about genetically modified organisms. Our second essay had to be a topic on money. As someone who has a love hate relationship with money, I wrote about the pros and cons of raising minimum wage. The third and final essay was to be written about stress. I wrote my essay on ways to alleviate stress. In the following essay I am going to take you along on a short trip and relive each one of my essays and tell you about my favorite parts. While trying to decide what to write …show more content…

I have always had a strange love and happiness that goes along with eating food. In my mind, there is a lot more we need to know than gorging ourselves with a gluttonous amount of food. I know that we need to eat in order to survive, most of us don’t treat eating that way. We feel hungry so we eat. Problem solved. Well, if you take away all of the notorious parts of food, what do you have? Fillers, things that fill us up but have no nutritional value. Most of the food in the United States is highly processed. A choice that we make as consumers is to buy healthy food or unhealthy, usually processed food. Now, I am going to introduce genetically modified organism into the mix, sometimes referred to as genetically modified. We consume GMOs without our knowledge because, we have no federal law mandating the labeling of food grown in a lab, sprayed with pesticides or packaged in unhealthy environments. This is a problem because most of the GMOs that I am talking about cause health risks in animals

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