ESSAY 2

As human we need two essential things to live water, and food. The definition of food is any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. We consume food with friends, family, and by ourselves. It has deep ties to rituals that bring us together every year. We have Christmas, and thanksgiving dinner where families from all over the country come together just to consume food. We go out to restaurants on special occasions like birthdays, or promotions. Then we have family dinner every night to get closer as a family. Why do we at times take this for granted, or disregard the way it is made. In some regions of the world people don’t get a lot of food. They don’t get to have special dinners, or they might not even know the next time they will get a meal. That is why I think we have to take a step back, and look at the way we really feel about food.
To me food is one of the best things in life. I love coming home, and getting my mom’s homemade Czech republican meals. There are so many varieties of food that someone can choose from. Everyone has their favorite food whether it is Italian, American, or any other culture because each one has food. I personally identify myself as a big carnivore so a big steak is my preferred choice. When I consume food I have found myself checking the labels more and more now a days. Of course I check the nutritional facts that inform me on everything that is in the food. I don’t worry about the fat and sodium amounts. I personally look at the calories in whatever I’m about to eat. Also if I want energy the next day I make sure I eat something with carbs in it. Also now that I have watched Food Inc., and researched more about the production of food I pay attention where my food comes from. I can’t really eat local while being in college, but when I go home to Columbus I will try to god to more farmers markets, and eat more sustainably. That is how I treat food that I consume today, but that has definitely changed over the years.
I believe everyone’s food consumption has drastically changed over the years. Everyone obviously starts of as a baby where they have no choice over the food they intake. Then when we are kids we just try to go for the sweet delicious treats like candy, and pizza over anything. You don’t really see a lot of 5 year old getting salad when they go out to eat. As we mature though there we go through a lot of physical changes and our physical appearance becomes more important to us. Then later in life we might develop diseases like diabetes, or lactose intolerance. We have to change our food habits to those illnesses to lead a healthy life. Also if we become more sustainably aware we try to eat locally, and support sustainable food producers. That is how our food intake habits change throughout our lives.
Food is something that is never ending I can sit here and %100 without a doubt say people will consume food tomorrow, and a 100 years after I die. It might change over the years, but I’m sure it will only get better. With saying that though I hope we all start to wake up, and realize how our food is being handled. We need to pay attention who makes it, how it’s made, and who gets hurt in the process. We need to realize how healthy or unhealthy food can be to us. How everything is loaded with sugar, and corn syrup. We need to realize how mistreated and malnutritioned the animals we get our food from are. Lastly we need to realize how the big companies that make, and serve our food benefit from our lack of knowledge on something that we consume every day. We go through many stages with our food throughout our life, but the most important stage to go through is the sustainable stage, where we change our food and ourselves for the better.



Work Cited
Moseley, Tolly. "Eat This, Not That, in 2010 - Planet Green." Planet Green : Sustainable Living, Energy Conservation, Earth Day. 1 Dec. 2009. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. .