Future of Food

My favorite snack is Oreo Cookies

The ingredients are: Sugar, Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate {Vitamin B1}Riboflavin {Vitamin B2}Folic Acid)High Oleic Canola Oil and/or Palm Oil and/or Canola Oil, Cocoa (Processed with Alkali)High Fructose Corn Syrup, Baking Soda, Cornstarch, Salt, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier)Vanillin - an Artificial Flavor, Chocolate.

The ingredients come from:

According to Kraft Foods North America, while the main ingredient the cocoa comes from South America and Africa. Oreos are manufactured in New York City, where they have their home base. Some of their ingredients are grown in houses (artificially made). Kraft refused to disclose the precedence of most of the ingredients used to make these wonderful cookies.

My favorite snack travels from New York to get to me, during this process I’m sure the transportation company used up about 80 gallons of gas. I was not able to get an exact number, for the fact that when I called the company they refused to provide this information to the public. They state that they are working on a more environmentally friendly distribution chain.I also feel that not only Kraft Foods uses fossil fuels to produce and distribute their product and service. Every manufacturer needs to be more concerned to the harm being done to the environment and take action.

As they stated in the movie “Future of Food” we have focused our selves to produce and push as much products as we can. We have become a society focused on accumulating and tying up resource.

In my opinion I think consumers have to be informed and always exposed to the different ingredients of their food. We don’t always make the healthiest choices, but it’s only fair to be conscious of what we are putting in our bodies and where it comes from. This activity made me realize the harm that we do to the environment by not growing our own food. As the film “Future of Food” said we have lost our farming skills and replaced them with chemical fertilizers, and it’s very true we have turned to artificial and processed flavored foods. Food these days comes from a chemistry lab saturated with chemical components that gives our foods taste and size.

The “Future of Food” film gave a better understanding of how we have lost the true meaning of growing and sustaining ourselves with the products from earth. We take more resources from the earth than what we put back. We have done irreparable damage to our land and we still haven’t taken any action to make a permanent change towards a sustainable way of producing our food.