How Far are We from the Biology Rather Than Marketing?

In the industrialized world, food production recently seems like running under the consideration of market needs rather than biology needs. The taste, nutrient, sanitation and process of producing of what people are eating now are completely different from people used to eat. There is no doubt that the industrialized food production style increases the producing efficiency, profit, as well as meeting human being’s increasing desire. However, chaos would be the result of the broken of the rule of nature.

First of all, I believe disease would be the most influence affect of the broken of nature rule. Take the producing the broiler chicken as an example, those chickens are raised especially for meat production and the terrible environment of the broiler chicken plants threats chickens and workers’ health. More specifically, losing the fingernail is exactly the reaction to the bacteria on chicken carcasses. Cook (the author of “Fowl Trouble”), mentions that “today 50% of the nation’s 245,000 poultry workers are immigrants.” They could not get welfare or disability benefits with injured hands.

Secondly, the lower concentration of nutrient of food is another result of factorized food. According to the article “The Introduction to Estabrook’s Tomatoland”, “Todays industrial tomatoes are as bereft of nutrition as they are of flavor”. Compared with the concentration of Vitamin C, Thiamin, Niacin and Calcium of tomatoes, they decreased dramatically except sodium (four time much than 1960s). As we all can see, modern factorized fruits are have perfect color, shape and weight but less tasty with less nutrients. In my city, a group of people establishing a club called “Planting DIY”. Members use their leisure time to planting tomatoes, apples and other vegetables in their own small field. They can take their production home and cook them. Recently, more and more people attend this club for healthier food.

Luckily, we have some people realized the animals’ scarify. Animals should be respect and protect. Also, we should treat them as our friends. Though they are at the lower part of the food chain, human beings could not curtly kill them without any respect. One year ago, I decided to become a vegetarian when my best friend Emily gave me a handout of vegetarian club. She was a vegetarian and she really proud of being a vegetarian. The sprite of the club was written in bold and it’s pretty touchable. I didn’t keep being a vegetarian because I thought it’s not healthy to keep doing that. However, I do believe the say “We’d eat them with the consciousness, ceremony and respect they deserve” (Pollan12). Human being would not be a strict vegetarian or vegan but at least we should respect their scarify and constrain our desire to protect them.