Feel like having an orange? You can open a carton of freshly squeezed orange juice and pour yourself a glass! You may also peel yourself an orange! A couple of generations from now, kids probably won’t recognize an orange. The only orange which they would know of could be the liquid form that comes out of the carton.
That could be taking it a little too far! However the fact remains that food landscape is totally different from what it was barely a couple of decades ago. Our eating habits have undergone a serious change in the past 100 years or so.
Our ancestors started out as hunters and later progressed to hunters and gatherers. Somewhere down the line in the past 10000 years or so, we began to grow grains, fruit and vegetables and reaped the benefits of a diverse diet.
From hunters and gathers and cultivators, we now have become enthusiastic and voracious assimilators of food. We don’t eat to live, but we live to eat! And like our ancestors, meat forms a major part of our diet.
In many ways we now have come full circle. When we started we used to seek out animals for food! Now the only hunting we do is for top deals or cuts in chicken, beef, pork and seafood in supermarkets.
Speaking for myself, I am not a total vegetarian. But I really do believe that our consumption of meat is far too high! The consumption of excess meat has resulted in a number of diseases and lifestyle problems. However, our existence is threatened in a far more potent and ominous way because of a diet predominant in meat. We feed our livestock soya and corn; grains that nature never intended as food for cattle. This is the second largest known reason behind global warming!
The problem is not simply about meat! It’s about what and how we eat! The common supermarket has aisles of various kinds of foods. Consider the grocery that you buy and you will find that a lot are incredibly processed, unwholesome and totally unnecessary.
So, do we stop eating? Or, do we stop processing our food? We can’t cease eating for sure! And there’s no reason that we can’t enjoy our food! We should also process our food or we will have stones of wasted fruit, vegetables and grain.
We have to draw the line between food which is healthy for us, and food that’s empty calories. We also need to eat more of a well-balanced diet with more wholegrain, fruit and veggies and less meat. As consumers we ought to be aware of difference between food that is wonderful for us and doesn’t add to our bottom line and food that is good just for the bottom line of food processing companies.
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