Fast Food: the death of culture and lives
The reading written by JBK and Professor Dyer discusses how cultures are divided by the microbes in a particular region as seen in their “traditional” foods. A majority of these traditional foods are in reality created by the fermentation process due to the local microbes: cheese, wine, beer. However, these culinary cultural boundaries were able to form due to the isolated natures of population. Nowadays we have a very consumeristic globalized community. We have developed a culture of fast food because we lead fast lives; we no longer have the time to spend cooking our A chef, Jamie Oliver, has made it his life’s mission to educate America on what has happened to our food and how it has led to incredibly high rates of obesity and heart disease. These two health problems are the leading cause of death in the US and it is caused by the food that we eat and feed to our children. His wish is “for everyone to ...