Industrial Food

For the last few days in class, we have been watching videos, and talking about industrial food. Where it comes from, how it comes to be, etc. It has really interested me because my whole life i have wondered about what i eat, where it comes from, if its really as good for me, or bad for me as people say. The first thing that caught my attention was when Andy started talking about how different foods can affect your mood. I have always felt like that, but thought it was only me. So i went into depth on that thought, and did a few informal experiments. I tested which foods made me feel good and which made me feel sluggish, lazy, and sometimes even grumpy or angry. I decided that light meals like chicken, turkey, pizza, sandwiches, fruit, salad, vegetables and foods of that nature made me feel fine. But fried foods, beef, ham, pork, rice, foods with a lot of carbs, made me feel like shit. I was feeling good about my self because i had been eating well, and exercising well too. Everything was good until i saw the videos in class, and read the websites that Andy had posted.

"Our Daily Bread" really got to me. I thought that because of the chicken, and good meats i had been eating, I was feeling better, but after watching that video, it really made me angry, and now when i eat it, i actually feel bad. I feel that everyone should know what people do to living, breathing animals, just so we can be full. After going to the Meatrix website,I actually felt that it didn't tell people what they needed to know. They kind of made a joke about it and I just think they could have been more informative, because people need to know about what they're really eating. They want to know.

Grocery Store and Habitual Food

In my family, going to the grocery store is a rare occasion. Most of our food comes from leftovers or something that I was craving and just went out to get. we rarely have fruits or nuts much to my dismay. I have tried multiple times to get my parents to buy me some "natural" food but it always seems to be forgotten. It's also hard to eat healthy in a world like the one we live in. The only foods that are cheap are the junk food and fast food. If you want to eat healthy for cheap you actually have to go to the grocery store and pick out what you want, go home, make it, then you can eat, and hardly anyone really has time like that.