Taking Food Away From Nature

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Growing up I used to love watching futuristic television shows. Seeing people simply put a pill in water and out pops a roast beef with a side of mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce; meal in a pill if you will. Nowadays we are not too far from the idea. Instead we are pumping our food full of enhancements as if we are putting pills in our food. Is changing the way we consume food necessarily a bad thing? No longer must we be slaves to nature and her spoils; no longer must we be overly concerned with our diets, and no longer do we have to continue slaughtering our loving animals.
“It was fortified breakfast cereal that first showed the way, by supplying more vitamins and minerals than any mere grain could hope to” – Pollan. Apples, oranges, cranberries, and grapes all spoil after a couple of weeks or so. Nature gives and takes away from us on a daily bases; part of a sick cruel joke I’m Sure. In the twentieth century of course that has drastically changed. Now we are able to have as much apple, orange, or cranberry juice as we want without it going bad for months at a time. By simply adding extra ingredients and separating the juice from the whole food itself, we were able to make our favorite foods last longer and get twice the nutrients and vitamins than we would’ve ever gotten from the whole food. The days of our food spoiling are slowly becoming a thing of the past.

Whenever we bring up the topic of eating food the question of what to eat shortly arises afterwards. Most of us can be very picky because we have may have a diet we are on, maybe a figure we are trying to maintain. The bottom line is we won’t just eat anything because not everything is healthy for us in the way we want it to be. A burger from McDonald’s or Burger...

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...ole foods may benefit society more in the future. Why worry about food spoiling or not getting the right nutrients or feeling sympathy for the poor baby chicken you just baked in the oven when food scientist can fix that. Just as we cross breed everything else why not try the same with our food. Pollan talks about apple wedges infused with red wine. Is this a scientific breakthrough? Imagine what we could do with this science. We can make any whole food as twice as healthy without having to take medicine pills that come with a list of side effects longer than the Chinese phonebook. This would be ideal for us because then we can begin to remove all the poisons we call healthy such as a McDonald’s salad, or a milkshake from burger king that taste like pure sugar and take a step towards the new age of food processing.

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