The evolution of food

         When you look back 50 years ago, 100 years ago, or 1000 years ago you realize that foods are so different back then compared to today.   Food was once something that was a necessity for survival is now something we take for granted and desire.  In prehistoric times, many hunter gathers would not waste a part of an animal or crop, but used every part of the food.  They did not have restaurants back then that catered costumers and produced an abundance of food that would just be thrown away if not finished.  If something doesn't look very appetizing we simply just throw it away, you’re full? Just throw it away.  We waste more food in a day in which we could have enough food saved up in a year to feed the hungry children around the world, places that don't have an abundance of food.  Sometimes we over eat because we want to eat away all the negative feelings we are feeling.  Our mentality has changed, food that was eaten for survival and nothing else is now food that we take for enjoyment.  In many first world countries, we don't ever have to worry about food, we get 3 meals a day, eat as much as we want, eat when we are bored and we overeat.  That wasn't necessarily true before or in other third world countries.  Those people have to go hunt for food and get food to bring home.  Sometimes they don't find much so they just have to eat what they have.  How many of us want to eat something but is not available to us?  Not many right? There are a variety of foods at the supermarket that we can eat what we want to eat.  The globalization of food has allowed almost everyone to get foods that are not native to their country.   

           Science has had a close relationship to food.  Scientists learned how to genetically modify foods to make them last longer or make them more nutritious and bigger in size.  People didn’t know how to do that 100 years ago!  It kind of makes me think how far we have come.  Corn for example, the corn we know today was so different from ancient times.  The corn we have today is about 3 times bigger then it’s ancestor.  Through thousands of years of selective breeding, the end result is the corn we have today.  With great power also brings great responsibility and consequences.    Although GMOs makes it a lot easier and prevents bad things from happening to our food, theirs also cons to GMOs.  You don’t know if it’s safe to eat your genetically modified tomatoes.   Even though nobody has been reported dead from eating genetically modified foods, you still don’t know the health risks involve and studies haven’t proven that there are no health concerns.