In her long essay "Talking about Eating and Drawing Cakes to Satisfy Hunger" written in the late 1970s, Eileen Chang not only misses the old Chinese food, but also has some interesting observations about the American food in her place of residence. For example, for Americans who are afraid of high cholesterol and start looking for beef substitutes, Zhang’s recommendation is soy products: “Soy products are the wave of the future. In soy products, China is the only advanced country. As long as you are interested, it must be the first among Chinese people. A veggie burger that can taste like the real thing. For example, tofu dregs, pour over the leftover braised broth and fry it, it is a good bowl of dishes, it can be seen that it is sensitive to the taste of meat; Refried beans are like minced meat. With a little less beef, at least a "flower veggie burger." According to healthy eating advocate Michael Pollan, one of the interviewees in the film, Americans today consume more soy products than people in Asian countries, probably unknowingly, because This "soy product" is not tofu from China and Japan, tempeh from India, etc., but soy extracts such as "isolated soy protein and soy isoflavones", which are commonly used food additives after processing, just like the corn mentioned in the film. Because it is cheap, it is used in large quantities in the manufacture of animal feed and additives. "It is not only a joke, but also a self-protection mentality. Who dares to look at "machine seperated chicken" processing process? Who wants to see beef cattle that have been pulled out of the cowshed before slaughtering and have nowhere to go? Half tomato, half apple hybrid? Bacon, famous for his paintings of slaughtering raw meat, once said that raw meat looks beautiful. If he were still alive, would he also think that a hamburger patty from dozens of cows instead of one cow is full of large-scale industrial beauty? Zhang Ailing’s article on eating also touched on the influence of hippie life attitudes on diet in the 1970s: “I think vegetarianism is healthier than meat. The corpse of the man "was horrified." In the film, an organic dairy product manufacturer was introduced. When he was young, he seemed to be a hippie who had established a "healthy food education". After the hippie culture declined, he felt that his "education" could not influence the public. Decided to sacrifice liberty for a corporate model, packaged food for financial gain, and when their organic yogurt was available at Walmart, he felt he was doing the right thing. A while ago, Mike Polan took a reporter from The New York Times to the supermarket and said that the shelves located in the center of the supermarket should not be seen at all (the fresh food in American supermarkets, from vegetables, meat, eggs and dairy products are used to be placed on the refrigerated shelves around, the middle Mostly snacks, the "bad calorie zone"). But when he casually picked up a can of yogurt in the dairy section, he shook his head just by looking at the sugar content on the calorie chart, saying that with so much sugar, it was about to catch up with Coke. But yogurt manufacturers are also very helpless. There is one yogurt candy on the market, and other factories have to do the same, because "sugar, salt and fat simply sell". In contrast, Mike Polan summed up his claim in a few short points: "Eat food. Not too much. Foods and other large organic food sales networks also continue to be cynical. Once organic farms are operated irregularly or food problems occur, they will definitely become the target of public criticism. The same social problem as weight loss is anorexia, and the horror of accusations of anorexia is far greater than the horror of obesity, because it seems that anorexia is always associated with the disease of wealth, WASP, beauty, and the vain fashion industry. When the models were asked if they were eating, they generally responded immediately: Cupcake is my favorite. Rao is such a "completely out" healthy eater, and Mike Polan recently admitted to The Times that he completely broke the rules he set while traveling, and could only try to be a vegetarian, and then enjoy it when he had to. The final piece of advice in his book is to "break these rules now and then." I happened to see an article recently, saying that in recent years, the US government has urged fast food to improve menus, not only being forced to standardize calories, but also to add nutritious menus. It turned out that many people who normally eat healthy meals come to McDonald's and still buy the third-party products with high oil and high fat, and regard the new healthy meals as nothing. Even if they do this, the foundation of the whole plan will be shaken. Some experts have revealed the public psychology: People usually eat enough vegetarian food, of course, they need to indulge in fast food restaurants. If they want to eat salad and apple slices, why do they come to McDonald's? Foods and other large organic food sales networks also continue to be cynical. Once organic farms are operated irregularly or food problems occur, they will definitely become the target of public criticism. The same social problem as weight loss is anorexia, and the horror of accusations of anorexia is far greater than the horror of obesity, because it seems that anorexia is always associated with the disease of wealth, WASP, beauty, and the vain fashion industry. When the models were asked if they were eating, they generally responded immediately: Cupcake is my favorite. Rao is such a "completely out" healthy eater, and Mike Polan recently admitted to The Times that he completely broke the rules he set while traveling, and could only try to be a vegetarian, and then enjoy it when he had to. The final piece of advice in his book is to "break these rules now and then." I happened to see an article recently, saying that in recent years, the US government has urged fast food to improve menus, not only being forced to standardize calories, but also to add nutritious menus. It turned out that many people who normally eat healthy meals come to McDonald's and still buy the third-party products with high oil and high fat, and regard the new healthy meals as nothing. Even if they do this, the foundation of the whole plan will be shaken. Some experts have revealed the public psychology: People usually eat enough vegetarian food, of course, they need to indulge in fast food restaurants. If they want to eat salad and apple slices, why do they come to McDonald's?
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