Survival of The Smartest

The world have changed a lot in the last years and it has never been easier to buy food. There are supermarkets and grocery stores in every street and in every corner you turn. These types of stores provide you with everything you need from fresh meat to diet food; it is all right there in front of you. Most families shop for groceries weekly, they have too. Maybe because the dog food  ran out or they need more ingredients to prepare tomorrow's lunch.We always find a reason to visit the store. However most of the times we do not even pay that much attention to the product itself. We are easily deceived by illustrative pictures of farms and farmers which induces us to think that the product is indeed fresh. If I wanted to buy a jar of butter I would eventually look for the one that costs less. We never get to look at the nutrition facts label. Even though we know we should be eating healthy food we evaluate each product by their price and appearance.

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 Yesterday on my way home I drove by a Burger King restaurant and bought a spicy chicken sandwich and a small sized French fries. I was really hungry and all I wanted at the moment was a tasty food that would not take a lot of time preparing and would not cost me a lot of money since I only had 5 dollars in my pocket.

The truth is that people no longer care about where their food comes from or how it is produced. We just care about the price and the taste. The food demand increases every day and the food companies have to find their ways  to provide the country with enough supplies. How can you feed a country with over 309 million people? what does it take to produce thus amount of food so that every family will be efficiently provided with enough food every day? 

What a cruelty

It is somewhat funny how occidental people tend to rush on the Japanese because they hunt dolphins and whales. Are we not doing the same with chickens and cows? these animals are hold by meat companies from the day they are dropped off until the day that they are slaughtered. Chickens have been redesigned so that they will grow bigger and faster and because of that they can no longer walk. We raise these animals just to kill and eat them at the end. Most people do not actually know where the meat they eat everyday comes from. The question is: we do not know or we do not want to know? I do not think that the companies should take all the blame for our ignorance. Do you ever ask yourself where all these food you eat everyday comes from? I never did and probably neither did you. The big companies do not want us to know the truth about the food's origins indeed but we could not care less.

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I do not know if humans have the right to kill other animals. I do not know if there is another way to do things. But I am pretty sure that it will be extremely hard for me to eat chicken again.