Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Easier Food, Harder Lives

[3] Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answers.

The advanced technology has helped us prepare our food much easily nowadays. Massive production and nice encapsulation have cut down the time from the moment we buy them to the time we thurst them into our mouth. But does that improve our lives? The answer is perhaps no.

One important factor is the greed of ourselves. Though there are fast food in the market, we seldom take them, because their flavor is not diverse and they are of poor nutrition. Now that we have time for food preparation, why not make something of our taste and fill up our appetite? Even if the raw gradient now requires less time for preparation, our imagination will always bring us far enough to make more delicate styles or try new flavors, though the cooking procedure might cost us as much time as before. Who cares? As a result, we still spend the same time preparing our dinner and enjoy doing so, leaving the same amount of time for other important things in life.

The other factor comes from massive production. Food, when taken, must be deemed as delicious by its taker. But usually different people have quite different favorites. What's more, if there is no strict supervision in the food production, it might cause diseases or even toxications on a large scale. China recently reported a strikingly tragic news that thousands of children have been found of rare diseases at their age, simply because their milk was polluted by a certain chemical compound in the production. It is a danger to our lives when it is not managed properly.

Maybe the government will pay more attention to the massive food production later, which encourage us to benifit in buying food half-prepared or almost fully-prepared. New technology will make those food more diverse and meet more flavors. But who knows? Human beings always have a high standard on what they eat. Maybe they will never give up their own pleasure in cooking themselves dinner and making dishes out of everyone's imagination.

25 min, 337 words.
typos: thurst -> thrust, benifit -> benefit
toxication -> intoxation

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