The Locked Door: A Gripping Psychological Thriller You Can't Put Down

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

THINK ABOUT IT!

WHY AM I INTERESTED IN THIS TOPIC

I feel that food is the basic need, a relishing experience, to any one living being .A great food can make your day. A nice plate of food is some thing you always crave for, you long for.

THE VISUAL EFFECT.

After coming here to USA, the first thing which I noticed here was the food. There were so many different types of healthy food, unhealthy food, all kinds of cuisine and above all every food looked very fresh, and packaging was superb and easily accessible. I just could not believe my eyes to see such a nice and fabulous arrangement in all the grocery shops over here. Going to a grocery shop and buying vegetables and other food items like meat, fish used to be an enjoyable event for me. The first item which caught my eyes was the beautiful fruits and green leafy vegetables.

LATER AFTER SOME DAY

As days passed by, I experienced and explored the different kinds of taste in every items, which I have had eaten several times in my life before. Each species of fruit and vegetable had different anatomy inside; looks were different as I had seen before. Later I came to know that even a slightest difference in the genetically structure may cause great variation and as a result it has a different taste all together. I found that oranges, water melons, lime all were seed less, spinach had huge leaves, bananas, tomatoes and onions were huge.

The most surprising item was the meat products, meats were kept in the shelves as if they are no other than onions and potatoes. Every product was pre-cleaned and well packed. I was very excited to reach home and cook.

The first day, I made a kind of Indian bread and Cauliflower curry. To my surprise it had no taste at all. This experience went on and on, every day with every meal. Most frustrating was the meat product which had no taste at all. My excitement of cooking just vanished after some days. No food, gives me any kind of taste and satisfaction. The pleasure of cooking is in the aroma which comes, when you put the food into the cooking ware, but here there is no such thing here. You’re all taste and sense of excitement is zapped off, till the food is cooked and ready to serve. It’s a kind of reflex action here, that looks at the food, and your appetite is gone.

WHY IS IT LIKE THIS

USA is a super power and a very developed country indeed. Food is one of the basic requirements, necessities which make you independent from all kinds of worry, make you think about other important things of life. What I mean to say is that a hungry man is not capable to think appropriately, work appropriately and the result is, he can’t give his best in what ever he is doing. So the solution to this is to grow such kind of food products which returns back the maximum. The farmers here grow vegetables, which are very huge. One tomato is an adequate amount to make a curry for four people. Where as in technically underdeveloped countries, which do not use fertilizers and genetic engineering in their farming, are not able to cultivate that product, neither in quantity nor in quality.

Animals are fed here upon hormones; they are no more fed naturally. The result is that huge animals are grown. All are the result of genetic engineering. The science is so much developed that, here farming and food has become a Laboratory for the experiments and the food we eat are nothing other than chemicals and hormones. Cow which is supposed to be a vegetarian animal is fed with the food, which consists of non-vegetarian ingredients. This is like playing with nature. That certainly affects our health and gives a question mark about whether we are eating the right product.

One of the vital reasons behind it is that, most of the population here in USA is involved in office works. So this scientific technique makes them competent to grow food in such large quantity, that only a marginal percent of people implicated in farming can be capable enough to fill the belly of rest of the population.

The other significant reason is that people here have acquired a taste, which is just impossible for them to overcome with. The main diet here includes lots of meat and that too is Red meat. If large amount of meat product is not made available in the market, it could be a great inconvenience for their dietary habit. To overcome this animals are fed upon hormones to let them grow larger and larger.

But this indirectly has effect upon many other things. To make available lots of meat, huge mass of uneducated .unauthorized people are appointed in the slaughter houses. They know very little about the knowledge of processing animal product. The result is different types of disease are spreading, which are hazardous, perilous and seems very difficult to cure.

People love here the food which is unhealthy, for example the food cooked or fried in Trans Fat. One of the favorite foods here is Doughnuts, which is fried in Trans Fat. This fat is very harmful to our body.

THE CONSEQUENCES

With every new research in farming, a special kind of product is grown in the farms. That is good, but at the same time unintentionally it is also generating a new kind of incurable, genetic disorder, which is giving a bad impact on our new born. What we are, what we look like, and how healthy we are, all depends upon what we eat.

Genetic disorders might be because of the hormones we get indirectly from the food, vegetables and animal products we eat. Even a slight variation in the genetic structure can cause great effects upon our health. People are getting obese day by day.

I some time wonder, people here are so educated, then why can’t they relate this simple idea in their daily life, which is so important.

I want to share these thoughts of mine just as a little maneuver to try to make people feel ,that what is going on is not good and it ought to be changed.