Technology has improved our living condition. Increase
of the kinds of food we can eat is the typical example of the raise of our
living standard. However, I feel this tendency does not necessary mean that the
way people live is improved. It is because the our situation of food
condition has some problems for us.
Technology as I said before has played an important
part in increasing the kind of available food which seemed to be regarded as the
improvement of our way of living to some extent. It has yielded various
kinds of preservation of food such as freeze dry foods, fermentation, and so
on. Clever machines to keep proper temperature enable farmers to
raise vegetable without being affected by ourside climate. These techniques have
brought many kinds of foods to many places and therefore we can eat every food
in every places and we have no worry about the lack of certain nutritions from
food because of lack of certain kinds of foods. In this point, I might
judge that our living way might be improved.
However the tendency that we can easily prepare food by development of technology have coused some problems. In order to prepare handy food in every places, companies have to add large amount of medicine, some of which might be harmful or its safeness is not still verified, to the foods. It is because when producing these handy foods, such as junk food and microwave dinner, which does not need to be cooked, they put their first priority on productivity and they make an effort to produce long-lasting products for long distant transportation. If we depend on these junk food too much, the chemical elements included in these foods might damage our body gradually but certainly. Moreover, availability of our favorite foods might lead to imbalanced diet. More easy-availability of food therefore can make worse our living way. Thinking about the effect of improvement of food
condition by advanced technology, it has both good and bad effect on our
lives. Therefore I cannot declare that easy preparing food absolutely
improve our way of living.
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