Question 3 Food has become easier to prepare....

Question 3

Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.


Answer

I do not agree that easy preparation of foods leads improvement of our life. Nowadays, we can buy cooked foods easily. We just use a microwave before eating them. It is very convenient. However, I think we lose important things when we eat easily prepared foods. We should not pursue only convenience in our life. I will show three reasons why I think that.

The primary reason is that the quality of easily prepared foods is low. Many kinds of chemicals are added in cooked foods we buy. The aim of the chemicals is to give flavors and colors. It is said that they do not harm for us. But consumers are anxious about the safety. It is difficult to understand the work of a huge number of chemicals. Moreover, when two or more chemicals are mixed, safe chemicals might change to harmful one. Unfortunately, the arrangement is infinit. We can not survey all of patterns.

The second reason is that people become not to cook well. They can go to a convenience store or a grocery store to buy frozen foods or cooked foods easily. They use a microwave, or sometimes only pour hot water. They wait until the foods are prepared. How can they improve their cooking skill in this way? Cooking is important to enrich our life. When we lose the skill, we also lose the quality of life, too.

Another reason is that to cook foods means to keep our house tastes. Each house has its own taste. It is succeeded to many generations. A house taste can be estimated to be a culture in the family. But convenient foods neglect all of the house tastes. They offer the same taste to consumers. In other words, we eat the same taste cooked by machines. We do not think they are the best taste. We know that the most delicious taste for people is their own house taste.

In conclusion, easily preparation of foods does not improve our life. We have to worry about chemicals, we disprove our cooking skills, and we do not succeed our house taste. Sometimes we are busy, and we do not have time to cook. But even if we eat easily prepared foods, we should not forget the importance of cooking.