Food Paper (unfinished)

Daily life has revolved around food for as long as we have existed. It seems that most organisms spend a bulk of their time obtaining the nourishment they need to survive. Today, food remains a significant aspect of our culture. Of course, it is an every day necessity to a human body, so this would make sense. Even the densest and most complicated first world life of an individual would have to include a time for nourishment. And why would anyone want otherwise? Food is pleasant and satisfying. It is sustaining and eating can be even a cathartic experience. The sustenance one consumes gives them the energy for all else in their lives, just as it has done during every step of humanity's history.

The human civilizations you see today are many things. They are forms of government; they are congregated religious and racial masses, etc. The overwhelming percentage are also agricultural. The United State's is a agriculturally based world economic power and evidently, most American families are stationary (any US residents really), part of being in an agricultural group. The projected ideal American life involves settling into a well furnished house or apartment with enough money to pay for a smooth and easy living - in one place (unless of course you have a summer home in the Hamptons). This entails reliance on the industrial agricultural system. Most Americans are provided food in exchange for a currency which they earn working a job that requires very specific talent, if any. Most likely, the majority of adults would be unable to live and thrive as a hunter and gatherer if that life were thrust upon them. Never having experienced the need to provide food for themselves, they probably wouldn't be very good at it. The average American sticks to menial tasks asked of them and buy their food from the market (painfully general).

Modern industrial agriculture has drastically lowered the quality of the food we eat...