Food

According to dictionary, food is any substance that people or animals eat or drink or plants take in to maintain life and growth.  Different creatures eat different kinds of food. Big fish eats small fish; pandas eat bamboos; herbivores eat grasses and grains; predators eat herbivores and some predators…  This is the way that world gets balance. However, for human beings, food is not only the substances that maintain life and growth. Human eat everything that can be eaten, everything tasted.  For satisfying this purpose, corporations find a way to increase the supply of food. For example, chicken are engineered for different “founctions”. Scientists use special way to raise chicken to make them have big chests because people like to eat chicken chests. However, chicken can’t walk with the huge chests; they even have difficult to stand up. Some chicken’s founctions are making eggs. They are called “layers”. Male layers can’t make eggs, so they are destroyed.more than 250 million chicken are destroyed per year in United States (Jonathan 48). In this situation, chicken are not considered as lives, they are just products; they are just food for human. On the other hand,  ranchers find a way to decrease their costs. For example, ranchers use dead dogs and cats to feed cattle. Cattle don’t suppose to eat meat, they eat grasses and grains. They even eat their own excrement. Just because cattle are assumed to be human’s food already, as long as they can grow fat, their destinies are finished, no one cares about what they eat. Human choose the food they want to eat, but animals don’t have choices because they are the food for human.