Monsanto is one of the few stocks actually made me some money. Well, my Monsanto stocks just became my new kitchen. I am always pro genetic modified food. I am still waiting the day that they can grow meat on tree.
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The fad for functional foods
Organic food is out of fashion. Welcome genetic modify food with enhanced nutrition. Artificial gotta be better than the natural product, otherwise where is the value add of human?
You know when it is really hot
When I was in Bangalore, my friend showed me around the town. Now, he is visiting Vancouver, it’s my turn to show him around. I don’t want to taking him to the typical tourist traps. I have been to those places too many times. There is one tourist attraction in Vancouver I won’t mind going back again and again, that is the ice-cream shop with 218 difference flavors of ice-cream. This afternoon in the office, I asked around and see who else wants to have some ice-cream after work. Two other friends who have heard about this place many times but having get the chance to taste it also interested to come along. My Indian friend tried the curry and chai tea ice-cream, and complains that doesn’t taste right. At the end he settle for a more traditional flavor, butter scotch.
After having the ice-cream, we are still hungry, so we decided to have dinner together. I want to bring Vikram to a restaurant that he don’t have one in India. One of my friend suggested all you can eat Chinese hot-pot, what a good idea. So I took them to the hot-pot restaurant I usually go. As you know, in a hot-pot place, other than ordering the soup base and dishes, you have to order your dipping sauce. In the menu, they have the normal sauces and the house special spicy sauce. My Indian friend instinctly want to have the spicy sauce and my two other friends, one is a white guy and the other is also Indian but grew up in Canada, follows. When we made the ordered, the waitress warned the white guy the spicy sauce is really hot. My friend complained that the waitress discriminate against white guys because she didn’t warn my other two Indian friends. He ignored the warning and told her to bring it on. My Indian friends almost made fun of the stereotype that white guys can’t take spicy food.
After a while, the hotpot, the dishes and the spicy sauce came. The white guy first tried the sauce. The moment he put the sauce into his month, he drank the whole glass of ice water to chill the heat. The sauce is too spicy for him. My two Indian friends were laughing at him. Then the Indian guy grew up in Canada try the sauce. He got the same reaction and complains his tongue is burning. The real Indian guy laughed at him saying that he has no taste for the spice. Finally, it’s my Indian friend’s turn to try the spicy sauce. Guess what, the sauce is too hot for him! You know when it is really hot, if an Indian thinks the spice too hot.
Organic food
Organic food is getting more and more popular these days. Health conscious consumers love to buy organic products, despite its higher price. Organic food suppose not to use any chemical fertilizer or pesticide. However any farm can put the organic label on its product due to lack of organic certification. I always wonder how organic the organic food I found in the super market. One thing for sure, you cannot trust organic food that is made in China. You are lucky if the Chinese farmer use real chemical fertilizer or pesticide instead of toxic industrial chemicals.
On a second thought, the organic label is quite misleading. Strictly speaking in the language of Chemistry, all food is organic. Unless something is made of metal or rocks, by definition it is organic, even it is made of plastic. If there are organic food, then there must also be inorganic food. But that would be very odd to say some food is inorganic. Is inorganic food eatable at all?
We are what we eat
I thought vegetarians who don’t eat meat are quite out of their mind. Then I met believers of Jainism who not only don’t eat meat, but also don’t eat any animal product like milk, honey or egg. Then I met the some weirdo who don’t eat any cooked or processed food. They only eat raw vegetables, fruits or nuts without any salad dressing. They claim all food has some sort of life energy which will disappear after cooking. Obviously no one with a right mind would believe in that superstitious non-sense﹐ yet I learn this stupid diet from a colleague who seems reasonable and intelligent. Maybe we can’t judge whether a person is a faddist or not from his appearance alone. You never know what ridiculous beliefs someone may hold inside his messed up brain.
According to anthropologist, eating meat and cooking food is what make us human as human. Human evolve to the top of the food chain and set us apart from other animals all thanks to meat and cooked food. Herbivores diet cannot supply the extra calories required to develop the brain of our prehistoric ancestors. Eating meat allow human to have huge brain with small guts that jump start human intelligence. Cooking breaks down starch molecules into more digestible fragment, break down amino-acid chain in protein molecules for the digestive enzymes and physically soften the food. Eating cooked food is more calories efficient, so human can further divert more energy for brain development. If human intelligence originates from eating meat and cooked food, then not eating meat or cooked food must be the lack of intelligence. Vegetarian, Jainism and raw foodist defy our human identify and evolutionary advantage. Their beliefs is on the verge of a dangerous path that lead us devolve back to animals.