[Joshua Hilyard]

[Mrs. Cole]

[November 28, 2012]

Why food manufacturers are try to kill us?

Introduction

Feed, it is sacred act has, from the beginning, a strong symbolic value, an expression of identity, memory, relationship, compared with their personal and family history, the environment, the community. The power affects our way of being in the world, to survive, to choose from. Feeding behavior assumes a wealth of meanings invests the anthropological, moral, cultural, historical, geographical, and economic involves the selection of educational horizons of healthcare models.   There is a close link between the act human foods, freedom, and knowledge. The act of eating is ritual event, a social moment, "metabolic exchange with the ecosystem", deep intertwining of pleasure, knowledge and freedom.

Relate to food means asking about its nature, its origins, the pleasure of taste, and its social and environmental costs, all issues that require an epistemological, ethical, political broad spectrum. The food contributes to the construction of identity processes and cultural person, connoting the eating styles, origins, stereotypes through mutual recognition of a common belonging. The language of food is relevant ethical and policy affecting not only the metabolism of the people but on the same peaceful coexistence of ethnic groups and cultures in the global society characterized by "difference", the heterogeneity of explanatory models, a complex universe of practices and values ??of which the subject is the bearer and covering a wide network of meanings. Foods define the original core of principles that define the person, the community and, at the same time, the minimum ethical universal common to integrate the differences and avoid the one hand the undifferentiated uniformity, the other the marginalization discriminate (Hub Pages, 2012).

Discussion

Food choices are not "innocent", have far-reaching implications of which we are not always aware of it. From our consumption depends on the survival of man, the environment and "other" cultures, the living conditions of the people. The approval given food by transnational economic interests has consequently not only the negation of democracy food but perhaps the existence of the right itself 'otherness.

Our food choices and lifestyle habits affect irreversibly the fate of future generations and communities geographically "far", representing the predominant cause of damage to the ecosystem and hunger in the world. Consumer awareness involves the assumption of responsibility and the choice of products that minimize the factors of malnutrition, damage to the environment and the animal and plant world.

Ethical Dimension

The ethical dimension of power related to the production and consumption of food is an important element of care for an increasing number of individuals sensitive to the protection of the quality of products, in respect of the health, social dynamics International. Rethinking the act of consumption means assume the economic, social and political, open to the whole system of consumption policies that govern the global market, the awareness of the interdependence that runs between our decisions and processes that they bring to the lives of others men.

The ethics food is configured as a matter of training, "articulated process, progressive, permanent, which includes learning the cultural significance of food and nutrition”, scope of health education. The ...