My basic assumption is that human beings, like other creatures on earth, are a link in the food chain, and the position of human beings in the food chain more or less determines what kind of creature we are. The nature of the omnivorous human being shapes the nature of our minds and bodies (human teeth and jaws can process all kinds of food, from tearing meat to grinding seeds, which is the bodily nature of omnivores). Our innate powers of observation and memory, as well as our curiosity and experimentation with nature, are also mostly due to the nature of omnivores. Many adaptations, including hunting and cooking food, also evolved to defeat the defenses of other creatures so we can eat these animals. Some philosophers even believe that it is the insatiable appetite of human beings that creates human savagery and civilization, because creatures that eat everything (including other humans) will have special needs for ethics, rules and rituals. What we eat, and how we eat, determines who we become.
Ecologists tell us that all living things on earth can be regarded as competing species, fighting for solar energy. Green plants absorb solar energy and store it in complex carbon-containing molecules, and the so-called food chain allows this energy to be passed on to species that lack the ability to absorb it. (ps: If it is true that humans can directly absorb solar energy, then someone can do it) The industrialized food chain after World War II changed the basic rules of the game in one fell swoop. In the past, the food chain obtained energy from the sun, but the energy source of industrial agriculture is mostly converted into fossil fuels (although the energy of fossil fuels originally came from the sun, but the stocks of these fuels are limited and irreplaceable, which is different from sunlight). This new development has resulted in a substantial increase in the energy content of food, which is good for humans (and keeps the population growing), but it also has drawbacks. We found that abundance of food does not mean the omnivore's dilemma is solved, but it deepens it and brings us all kinds of new questions and worries.
I hope that from the way humans eat in the past, I can bring some inspiration to the way we eat today. To prepare this meal, I had to learn some unfamiliar things, including hunting wild animals, and gathering wild mushrooms and fruits that grow in cities. As an omnivorous human being, I was forced to confront some of the most primitive problems and dilemmas throughout the process: how to understand the moral and psychological implications of killing, handling, and eating a wild animal.
It was a rare opportunity for me, living a modern life, to fully understand everything I ate, and for the first time in my life to take responsibility for the cause and effect of a meal.
Logically, there is a fundamental tension between nature and human industry, at least as it currently stands. Humans are incredibly creative with their diets, but human technology runs counter to the way nature works in many ways, such as the large-scale cultivation of single crops and single animals in pursuit of maximum yield. This situation can never happen in nature, which maintains diversity in various ways. We tend to oversimplify the complexity of nature at the production and consumption ends of the food chain, and as a result, the human food-producing system creates many health and environmental problems. At both ends of any food chain you can find a biological system, either a piece of land or a human body, and the health of both is closely related. Many of the health and nutrition issues facing humanity today can be traced back to how farms work, but little is known about the government policies behind how they work.
The most tragic and tragic thing about industrialized diets is that they completely bury the relationships and connections between humans and various species. In the process of human beings turning "Jungle Chicken" into "Mike Chicken Nuggets", the world has also entered a journey of oblivion: in this journey, we pay a high price in exchange for chickens, pigs, cows, etc. Pain and human pleasure. But this "forgetting" is exactly what the industrialized food chain is for (perhaps we didn't know it at first). The main reason is very obscure, but if we can see the truth behind the walls of industrial agriculture, we should change the way we eat. (God bless)
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