예비대학생 김혜빈: People in the past ate better food for their health than they do today. Use specific reasons and details in your essay.
Over the past few decades, many types of new foods and sweets have been made. So, it’s been argued whether people in the past ate better food for their health than they do today. Some people might say that people in the past definitely ate healthier types of food because they had better environmental conditions than we do today, while others might not think so. However, I am deeply convinced that people today eat better food for their health than those of the past did. Actually, I have a couple of reasons to support my opinion and will explain and develop them in the next following paragraphs below.
First and foremost, people today have well-inspected food products that are forced to have high quality. Because our world has experienced so many troubles and mistakes caused by unhealthy manufactured food products, very strict rules and frequent quality inspection are required today. In the past, even food products that consisted of very harmful substances were sold in common stores and markets. Though some people might say food such as vegetables, fruits, and more was produced from a cleaner environment in the past, today’s agricultural techniques grow such food in a much cleaner way. To give an example of this, my father once told me a story of his childhood. When he was little, many people tended to develop small diseases from the food they ate. This was very common unlike today, and it was all due to very harmful farming techniques that farmers used in order to grow more crops with the least expense. They would use virtual dung of people or even animals as fertilizer for the vegetables and fruits that they grew in their fields. Because they were toxic and un-sanitized, the crops would grow along with many types of small bugs in them. Since food products of the past were less strictly inspected, they all went to people’s stomachs, letting the bugs or germs from the food enter their bodies. So, many vulnerable people, especially young children or elders, would get sick or sometimes even lose their lives. Today, we’re living in a different world because the food that we see in the stores or the markets can be trusted at a certain level controled. Farming techniques also have to follow strict rules and frequent quality-inspections. Even meat from animal farms is well-inspected so that severe diseases won’t reach consumers. So, it’s obvious that people today eat better food for their health than they did yesterday.
Moreover, food eaters today have higher standards and better knowledge about healthiness. Unlike those of the past, people today not only know more about what’s healthy but also want their meals to be healthier and healthier. Though some people might say that people today consume many types of unhealthy fast foods that are consumed by many, most consumers nowadays care more about the ingredients in such fast food and demand the increase of healthy food. To give an example of this, a few years ago, mothers of a kindergarten in America made a non-violence demonstration to request for the increase of healthy food. A greenbean selling company had been using chemical substances to make the greenbeans increase in great number genetically. Since many of today’s people are more acute in terms of judging food, they caught the company red-handed. So, they demanded companies to use better ideas for selling their food products. Also, TV programs that show secrets of restaurants’ sanitization are highly popular because many are more interested in food qualities than those in the past. Because of this, many restaurants are motivated to use better ingredients in order to satisfy the majority of keen consumers who have much higher standards and better knowledge than those of the past. So, it’s more convincing that people nowadays eat healthier food than those of the past did. (643)