When you hear about the term “junk food” your mind probably immediately are imagining “McDonald’s”, of some other large food supply chain that produces food that is neither healthy, neither that much affordable (if we exclude US). The companies like “McDonald’s” and other did well in the sense that they managed to brand themself. That sole branding is seling more food solely because they are a brand. The quality of the food is in the other plan. With great commercial and marketing approach they managed to stay on the top. All “happy meals” and others stuff, special french fries and other “wonderful creations” they are selling fast food for the people on the go. Life of a modern man requires a fast lifestyle and inevitably fast food. Nowadays if you living fast with lots of obligations you don’t have the luxury to take your time and cook. But, in this particular social problem fast food isn’t that big issue. I mean it is an issue but you don’t have to choose between fast food and good old fashioned cuisine. No, we are now talking about an elephant in a room. The core of the food production is an issue. The food is poisoned with all kind of pesticides so even when you’re going to the market to get your groceries they are already contaminated with pesticides. Even if you choose to “go natural”, and have a farm on your own where you will plant the seeds and take care of your own food you will have a problem at a very start. Most people don’t even know about it but the seed you are buying from stores or other farms are genetically modified foods. So, you will do everything possible for good and organic food, you will work the land, you will do it old school, you will plant that very same seed you bought and you will not sprayed the seed or the plants (when the seeds develops) and yet you will still get a non organic food, you will get genetically modified food. How is that possible you may ask yourself and the answer is quite simple. The “old seeds” , the ones without any scientific modifications are so rare and in some of the parts of the world they are, in the lack of better term, extinct. They simply disappeared because they were hard to maintain because of the all kinds of roaches and difficulties in order to preserve them. So , a while ago scientists from agricultural branch tempered the seeds because they needed to be resilient to various weather conditions and all other problems in the plants. So if you’re thinking that because you plant the seed the “old school” don’t be fooled. You’re doing everything wright but you are still getting a genetically modified organisms in the seeds. The big companies that are producing seeds are to blame for this. This doesn’t mean that organic food doesn’t exist. No, it just means that not all food labeled “organic” are really organic. It’s often the case that the very producer of organic food are wrongly convinced that they are really selling organic food. Even the inspection for these kind of products focuses only on production. They are labeling products (food) as organic solely based on production process. Don’t be frightened by this, just read the labels more carefully when you shopping for groceries. The other problem and massive factor for “bad food” and bad food production is environmental issues. Massive industry expansion and power plants pollute the air, so unclear air expansion are poisonous to crops and plants. That gives you again unclear product and bad food. You can washed the apple for instance all you like. That will not solve your problem with food production and washing the apple will not extract various types of pollution in the apple. So, if this information about food production is giving you fear of food don’t despair. Just carefully choose from who will you buy it. This is a big social problem because unhealthy food production is certainly not a good thing for your health. So , choose carefully your own food. And slow down just a bit with your lifestyle. Yes, money is important and that is not disputable, but how ever you turn it, the primarily always goes to good health. So, once in a while , take your time and cook. Food production became a enormous social problem but you can reduce negative impact of this simply by changing your lifestyle a bit.
A. Shi
