Past, Present, Future... of Food

Food is everywhere around us. Everywhere you look you can find at least one person munching down on something. Whether you are at the ballpark and thousands of people are around you eating a hotdog or two, scarfing down some nachos and inhaling beer or maybe you are at movies, and you look to your left and to your right and 1 out of 2 people have bags of popcorn, a drink and candy. Food is almost inevitable to most if not all people just like some people believe that Judgment Day is inevitable. However, that may be the problem nowadays, the fact that food is always around us no matter where you look. That can be the downfall to life as we know it.
In the past, food was as normal as it can get. Local farmers would grow the food, and then sell it at a farmers market, much like we have today. Not many people cared about getting food prepared as quickly as possible just to make a quick buck. Food was treated with a kind of respect, making sure that things were cooked properly and efficiently. There were hardly any fast food chains like the ones we have today that flood the blocks we live on. There were hardly any news on people dieing because of the undercook meat they ate, or because of the disease they gotten. Before fast food franchises hit the market, places like France was a place where home cooked meals were eaten almost every meal. For lunch, they would head home from their jobs, just to have a nice home cooked meal, whereas nowadays, for lunch people just head to the nearest McDonald’s and grab something quick to eat, where they would go hungry again in about an hour or so. Although back then when people would go home to have a home cook meal, the France did cook a lot of their meals in a lot of butter and margarine and always had wine to drink in every meal. This lead to a few cases of obesity but nothing serious like the cases we have today. I guess you can say that fast food franchises are the downfall to human society.
As of now, the food in our society can do much better compared to the past. As of now, fast food franchises have totally taking a huge impact on how people eat. What used to be people eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at home, nowadays people choose to eat out rather than eat a home cook meal. Sure, eating out is a much quicker way, since you don’t have to cook or clean, but to just pay and eat, it is also bad for the body. What make the food taste good are all the different seasonings and things they put in the food to enhance the taste so that you would come back again and again. Companies like these hardly care about the quality of the food but the quantity. If they can make their food in lightening speed and also make it taste good enough, then they will do it at no expense. For example, in fast food Chinese restaurants, the reason it taste so good and why it appears in front of you so quickly is because of what they put in that they specifically say they don’t: MSG! This special ingredient heightens the taste of the food to great extent but also is bad for your body in the long run. Also people who eat fast food like McDonald’s for every meal every single day, eventually all that sugar and fat will catch up to them and eventually take a toll on their body. People know all these facts from TV commercials and newspaper articles but yet they still do this to their own bodies. They know the dangerous effects of eating fast food every single day yet they still eat it every day because it’s quick and cheap. This is why when you are walking down the streets you see obese people walking, when you head to the beach to have a good time there is a chance you will catch a glimpse of at least one obese person. Like is said before food is here and it is inevitable.
I feel that in the future things will just keep on getting worst if people don’t change their eating ways. Things will also continue to get worst if they don’t do something about the way their food is being harvested and prepared. People have to learn the ways of growing and producing their own food and learning not to rely on oil and machinery to do their jobs or else food WILL be the downfall to human society.