Has one ever asked themselves what is in their food, probably not, and the answer to why not is very simple, as a society we don 't want to know what is in our food and how it was made. Overtime someone bites into a hamburger, one is eating hundreds of cow meat grinding up, mixed with some preservatives, and all nicely topped off with chemicals to kill of the Escherichia coli, but to most it is just a cheeseburger. In John Layman’s “Chew," the lead character, Tony Chu, has the power to see everything that has been put into his food and everything one and thing that has touched it. Could one imagine having Tony’s power; does one think that after knowing whats in ones food, we as a society would be able to eat the same food or would ones perception
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John who dives into his chicken plate without any concern or knowing what is in it besides chicken and he just doesn 't care, while on the other hand there is Tony. Tony takes one sip of his chicken soup and his mind goes crazy with hundreds of different images of different things that went into the soup that he can barely eat it. The page when Tony takes a bite and his mind goes crazy, I feel shows that how can people trust wants going into food, when the man who can take a bite of anything and see where it came from and what went into, can’t even get a clear image of what is in his soup. To most chicken soup is, chicken, broth, and vegetables, but to Tony it is none of that, it is the blood from the cook, the hands of someone killing a chicken, and the dirt from where the vegetables came. Now if I got those images every time I had chicken soup, I’d probably never eat it again, so image if every one had that power chicken soup would never be served again, unless there was change. Food in America needs to change, if It doesn 't Tony Chu will probably kill himself before he sees another chickens head cut off in his mind. Societies perception of food will not change if there is nothing done to make the way food is made healthier and less disgusting. After reading “Chew," its made me see food in a different way, it made me realize that food does not come from where I thought it did. I am learning that not
John who dives into his chicken plate without any concern or knowing what is in it besides chicken and he just doesn 't care, while on the other hand there is Tony. Tony takes one sip of his chicken soup and his mind goes crazy with hundreds of different images of different things that went into the soup that he can barely eat it. The page when Tony takes a bite and his mind goes crazy, I feel shows that how can people trust wants going into food, when the man who can take a bite of anything and see where it came from and what went into, can’t even get a clear image of what is in his soup. To most chicken soup is, chicken, broth, and vegetables, but to Tony it is none of that, it is the blood from the cook, the hands of someone killing a chicken, and the dirt from where the vegetables came. Now if I got those images every time I had chicken soup, I’d probably never eat it again, so image if every one had that power chicken soup would never be served again, unless there was change. Food in America needs to change, if It doesn 't Tony Chu will probably kill himself before he sees another chickens head cut off in his mind. Societies perception of food will not change if there is nothing done to make the way food is made healthier and less disgusting. After reading “Chew," its made me see food in a different way, it made me realize that food does not come from where I thought it did. I am learning that not