How We Choose Food
Now
close your eyes and imagine that a cockroach in your mouth, then you biting it,
chewing it, swallowing it. What’s your feeling? Might feel like vomiting.
However, it is quite possible that you never eaten it before, and probably no
one had told you the feeling before, why you feel nauseated? Do you know in
some culture, cockroach can be food?
We
will discuss it latter,and now I need tell you our topic. We will learn
something about how we choose food in this research paper.
To
discuss how we choose food, sounds like we don’t know it.Actually in BarryGlassner’s
book‘The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong’,
has shown some mistake of the understanding of the food. I don’t want to let
people introspectthemselves, but I will happy to see people have a new cognition.
You
may think food is just something that is found in nature or something can be
eaten after processing, but the truth is that the answer what we considered is
still be controlled by our culture. For example, if you contrast flies or
cockroaches with hamburgers or potato chips, which group look more like real
food? Perhaps are hamburgers or potato chips. Now we need define the meaning of
the word ‘food’ before drawing a conclusion, what is the style food need be;what kind of ingredients food need
have;what make food like food?
1. Culture influences our
choice.
Now
we can begin with cockroaches and locust, even flies. Believe you or not,
cockroaches are healthy than hamburgers, form some research paper, cockroaches
and locusts have particular protein. ‘Cockroach and locust brain in vivo of
protein composition, can be effective in the laboratory to kill more than 90%
of methicillin-resistant’. It happens that there is a similar case. Protein in
flies can be more stronger, so some scientist want to prove this kind of
protein can be used in the field of sciences and medicine.
This
is the evidence in the field of science, but people don’t care about it. Even
if the research shown cockroaches are delicious, people still refuse to eat it.
As I say you never eat it before, why you don’t like it? That is the culture
influences. It is normal food for people in tropic. The cockroaches in tropic
are big like your finger, and that would be a big meal for Aborigines. For
them, hamburgers are strange thing, not food.
Letus
compare the cockroaches and hamburgers, to see why cockroaches can be called
food.
This
form was made by Kelly D Brownell, we will use some of his research result in
this research paper.
(Made By K.D.Brownell)
Cockroaches
Hamburgers
Found in nature?
yes
No
Not concocted?
Yes
No
Recognized by the
body?
Yes
No
Not harmful?
Yes
No
Do we define it as
food?
No
Yes
Does it taste good?
We don’t know
Yes
(Made By Minlen)
Chalk
Hamburgers