the preparation and savoring of food is, as far as we know, a uniquely human characteristic. think about it. we are the only species of animal that will take a tomato, cut it into squares, add little bits of plants for "flavoring", can it, sell it, buy it, take it home, put it in intense heat, and then put it on our food. and thats considered very simple!
whats amazing is that we are so highly evolved that we can afford this amazing luxury. by the way, when i say "highly evolved", i do not mean in any way that i think humans are superior to other animals. in many ways, we are inferior. we don't hunt except for fun, we're hopeless at catching fish ourselves, we can't grow plants without throwing chemicals all over them, and we don't have the patience to cook our own food. now, this isnt true of all humans, just over 50%. at least, the ones i know.
whats silly, really, is that weve created so much, we have to create more just to keep up with ourselves. for example, we create time and the days of the week, so we have to invent alarm clocks to be able to wake up when we don't want to, so that we can get to work on time to do things we dont want to do, so that
sorry. this post was supposed to be about food, not what's wrong with our society. i apologize if i offended anyone. i dont know whats gotten into me. goodbye.
Friday, April 17, 2009
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haha that was an awesome change of topics. now i feel inferior =( lol. yeah that is kind of funny that humans are such failures... but idk, maybe if we lived in the wild we would be better hunters and such...
do you think that the way we're going, we might just keep going backwards, or rather, forwards, till we can't do anything without depending on the help of all our inventions?
Yeah, did you see Wa-ly (spelled t wrong, I know) We all turn into fat people who only move around in wheelchairs and only look at the screen in front of us. We get to a point where we think we DESERVE these luxeries. I've heard it often said "I'M NOT AN ANIMAL!" Well, yah, you kind of are.
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