P9

P9: Read the essays by Pollan (“Unhappy Meals”) and Dupuis. Write a post in which you connect the essays to one another and to a contemporary food issue. In other words, read the essays alongside one another and use that reading to inform your commentary on an aspect of our food cultures.

 

Pollan and Dupuis both write about how essential it would be for humans to eat like they were supposed to, no diets, not fast food, just plain old healthy sustenance.  Pollan discusses more about how fast food and similar unhealthy foods have become the norm for human society and that we are digging into healthcare to treat those who are getting sick from it as opposed to letting nature take its course.  Dupuis on the other hand talks more about how diets have taken charge of the American public for years, not just the past 50 years or so, and that we have always looked to other to discern what is good to eat, even though the diets change every other week.  Essentially, they are both explaining how modern society has reverted to unhealthy forms of eating, that we have become utterly corrupt in our eating habits.  Which is true, our society has relied less and less on home-cooked meals and more on the dining out, fast food, and easy-to-make meals.  Naturally these foods are less healthy than homegrown salads with a real farm-raised chicken breast on the side.  Our society needs to learn how to eat healthier again.  The only problem is that our food has developed with society, it has become faster paced, which means that not everyone can have homegrown salads and chickens; there simply isn’t the time to do so.  The food industry just developed with society and began making food faster at the cost of health.  It is possible, but an entire system would have to be altered to bring homegrown quality to every human being.  It will cost a lot of time and money, something which big industries are not willing to give up.