Week 6: Bio Tech and Art

Week 6: Bio Tech and Art 

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Many of our foods today are extremely tasty and are visual pleasing, however there is a system in which creates and maintains these interesting looking foods. For example, Bananas are one of the most publicly known fruits. This fruit is used in a million different ways and for many different meals and snacks. In my personally experience I really enjoy bananas with almond butter or peanut butter with honey on top of a rice cake or toast. I think this is an amazing breakfast of snack, yet there is more to a banana then meets the eye. A banana is a genetically modified fruit, meaning it has been tampered with in order to ensure its values. Have you ever notices a banana with a seed? No, because they have been genetically modified to be represented without them. Within the United States, bananas are one of the many fruits that have been mutated to recreated. Due to the ability of the advanced technology in biology we are able to make these miner and drastic changes to our foods. 
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Image result for junk foodThe biology of creating a GMO (genetically modified food) is most common in junk foods. These sweet and savory foods are not naturally as delicious as they seem to be. Most of the flavors are created in a lab and then implemented in the food. Fast food also happens to be the cheapest category of food. This is becasue of how modified it is. It is also explains to be a sped up and "lazy" way to make and eat food. Food critic, Michael Pollan states theses foods are "cheap fossil food" that this is not the way the food should be eaten, and that food in not a biology project yet it is an art for that was created for us from the earth. 

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Michael Pollan explains the state of our food system by watching specific foods from the very beginning. He explains that the most important things about food is following the food chain. By following the ability of food from seed to plate. Pollan speaks about how all food is created by the sun and photosynthetic. This is how all our food is created and formed into edible vitamins for us to ingest. He explains the importance of treating animals with integrity because animals produce most of our main food groups such as protein. Pollan really acknowledges that it is extremely important to make and understand were our foods come from while also respecting how it got to our tables. 



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  1. Han Kyeol KimMay 6, 2019 at 10:05 PM

    Wow! I really love reading your blog. Until I read this, I was not aware of the modifications that my fast food had been through. I guess it is true that such topics bring awareness to people. I think we all should pay more attention to where our food came from, where the were raised, and where they are processed.

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  2. Tana WernerMay 10, 2019 at 10:39 AM

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  3. Tana WernerMay 10, 2019 at 10:40 AM

    Hi Veronica! I liked your blog this week! I think that you did a really good job of taking this week's topic in an unorthodox direction of GMOs. When I read this topic I thought more about the environment and human anatomy, where you took it in the direction of food. I also really like Michael Pollan and his book 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', so I thought it was interesting that you put some of his opinions in here.

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  4. PiperMonkMay 10, 2019 at 2:36 PM

    I knew how processed food is, but I never really thought about it as being an art. People are changing the genetics of the food so that they look/taste better and people are more likely to buy them. There are not many people who have questioned whether this is ethical, but it is similar to treating animals poorly just because they are for consumption.

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