Final Food Paper

Ever since the start of evolution the food has been an important aspect in the lives of species everywhere. Food has influenced different varieties of cultures and religious all over the world. The way one eats is also effected by efficiency. Most people eat what is most convenient for them, easy to make, and saves time. They just want to be satisfied and get the hunger issue over with fast. These days all the products that we eat don't really stress enough how bad they can be for someone.
Many years ago people would fend for themselves and not rely on machinery to assist them with the food they needed. Farmers had to grow, hand pick, raise, and kill the animals for food all by themselves. They're were no hazardous chemicals like pestisides being sprayed as well. It was all pretty "natural". Now we depend on big tractors to pick the food for us, machines to assemble the food into plastic and big trucks to distribute. All these things run on fossil fuels that hard the enviorment. It may be efficient, but the amount of pollution that the machinery releases is harmful.
The second semester of class we had focused on the food unit. Topics like how our food is produced or even how it is being picked, who pick our food, how we shop, what we eat, how we cook it, why we eat it, where bought it from, etc. Many of us never really paid as much attention to what we ate and whether or not it was really good for us. Keeping a journal of what we consumed and what was stored in our refrigerators at home helped us get the basic idea of how the food we ate affected our lives. I knew that the food in my refrigarator was a mix of good and bad. My family didn't really focus on whether or not its healthy, it was the basic fact that what we consumed revolved around my culture and what tasted good.
My family goes food shopping a lot. Mostely because there is 5 people and a dog living in the household but also because 3 of us are teens having cravings all the time. Every time we go food shopping, usually we buy a lot of fruits and vagtables, alot of bread, rolls, bagels, meat, potatoes, dairy and cold cuts. We don't really get a lot to drink just a few packs of water and the occasional juice. We conume alot of poultry. (chicken, streak, pork, beef, etc) The food I eat at home is never the "easy to make" stuff. It's always made from stratch, from recipes that have been passed down from generations. I wouldn't say my family dosen't eat healthy because I think it is, maybe the sound of it dosen't sound so good, but what it consists of and the ingridents added are. I think the way people eat now, is effected by the way they were raised and what they're parents fed them growing up.