What Would Our Life Have Been, If Artificial Food Ingredients Hadn’t Been Invented?

What do you have everyday? Many people said that they had salad, meat, bread, juice or soda etc., but they usually ignored those artificial food ingredients, such as trans fats, citric acid and artificial coloring! If time could go back, I wish all artificial food ingredients were not invented in the world. In fact, in my view, the technology of artificial food ingredients is meaningless and the most of products are not good for people’s health. 

Usually a technology has its positive and negative side, and the most of technologies can promote our social development; but I can hardly find the positive side of artificial food ingredients technology. Artificial food ingredients include artificial flavor, food coloring, food additive, and preservative. They are invented and developed just in order to satisfy people’s desire of taste, smell etc. unlimited cognitive expectation; therefore, I don’t think they contribute substantially to this society. To some degree, people are addicted to them and forget the natural foods’ tastes and smells. 

If the artificial food ingredients like a cup of coffee become the part of our life, it’s no matter; unfortunately, they more like cigarettes. People indulge in pleasant cognitive feeling but they don’t realize many things are unhealthy, even dangerous if they have them for long times. Take trans fats, for instance. We can find the track of trans fats everywhere; for example, crisp chicken and HBBQ wings in KFC, French fries and scrambled eggs in McDonald’s breakfast, even shortening and margarine in daily baking. While people are enjoying foods’ crumbly, more and more researches report that trans fact may cause heart disease, cancer and major depressive disorder … etc.

Technology is a double-edged sword hanging over us. In English learning, we have a grammar that use unreal conditionals to describe unreal conditions and related results; but in our reality life we cannot have these kinds of “if”. We cannot prevent those meaningless technologies inventing; but we can control ourselves, and choose use, don’t use, or minimize usage. Just for ourselves!