Tuesday, March 31, 2015
What is really in our food?
Back in the day, food use to be chemical free and packed with a significant amount of nutrients. Nowadays it is difficult to even buy something that doesn't contain a ton of additives and unnecessary ingredients. The food we have today is definitely not as healthy as it use to be back then, due to the new fertilizers farmers use and the different way we prepare food. Earlier last week, Ms. Fletcher showed us a Ted video on how the new fertilizers farmers are using are affecting our "breathe of life" (bees). Bees help transfer pollen, which help keep crops from dying off, but because of these new tactics used for the crops, farmers are killing bees without even realizing it. Despite the many bees lost because of this, unfortunately, we really can't do much about it because I doubt the major food companies would stop their small yet big ways of making food production faster because of a couple bugs dying. We not only have to worry about how the food is being processed, but more importantly, what's in our food. The majority of our food contain preservatives to maintain freshness, artificial flavones to improve taste, and even additional ingredients to provide texture. Is this really all good for a person's well being? Consumers need to realize that the food provided now are more dangerous, besides,unhealthy. Instead of asking "what are we having for dinner?", the better question would be "what is in our dinner?"
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I agree with you about the packaging and the nutrients, and how that has changed over the time, I feel like it all happened because of consumer demand, the more, the cheaper, the better, but this is another reason everything I started eating is all organic, because there are no pesticides, or any chemicals. It may be more on the pricey side to eat organic but at the end is all worth it.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Our food now contains a lot of unnecessary GMOs that we used to not have. Anywhere we go and buy food, most of it is processed and not considered organic. They still haven’t found the chemicals in processed food to be officially harmful to people but the pesticides are affecting insects. I think bees are essential for pollination and it's sad that farmers are killing them. Companies should begin to be more considerate to the environment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Nowadays food is packed with many different ingredients (chemicals and additives) that most of us can't pronounce. Majority of us don't know the harmful these foods are to our bodies. Or if we do we don't necessarily know how to avoid them without spending out of our budget. I think it's disappointing that these food companies that are supplying us with food to fuel us are more worried about making more money rather than putting out their best products (without any harmful chemicals) for their consumers.
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