Whats Good

WHATS GOOD
As the human society is constantly developing and striving for excellence and we tend to neglect what we take into our bodies. The fact that Schlosser makes in Fast Food Nation “that most people don’t think too much about what they eat as long as it tastes good” is right on target. But we have to define “tastes good”. Even thought we go to supermarkets and buy fruit and vegetables they are still produced by these big giant industrial food companies, as we saw in Food Inc , who use unconventional methods of production. How many of us really know what a good fresh healthy tomato or cucumber really tastes like? There is a big difference between a tomato u picked out of your garden and the one you purchased in the supermarket. When you open a fresh tomato from your garden you can feel the flavors flowing through the air and smell the little fireball of amazement, it releases a juice and almost creates its own dressing where as when you cut open one from the supermarket it feels like you are cutting plain rubber, you get perfect slices without any sloppiness which has that hard texture about it. It almost seems that they have modified the tomato to only look good on sandwiches instead of tasting good. I believe since we have had this big industrialization of food that we have really forgotten what good is and as society we have evolved in associating good flavor with something that quite frankly is not the same as a what mother nature intended it to be. Form Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation he states that “the brain combines the complex smell signals from the epithelium with the simple taste signals from the tongue assigns a flavor to what’s in your mouth, and decides if its something you want to eat.” So by making something smell good it makes it taste good, which is where all these experts on food flavoring come in and are trying to duplicate flavors that occur naturally to appeal to our taste buds. I believe Schlosser’s statement is good because food today is designed to be registered by our taste buds as good and even though it might not be good for us it still tastes good. Why would you not eat a quart pounder every day? It tastes awesome. Its not all the industries faults, its also partially ours as consumers, we have learned to adapt to these redesigned foods and we are registering them as good and that they taste good, where often they are really far from what the product should taste like.