In the whirlwind of the 21st century, hundreds of new and odd inventions have popped up. A medley of new technology and innovation has made it’s debut in the past 16 years. Right in the middle of it all is of course food. Food is a base for human life and humans are ever creative in inventing new and crazy ways of making and distributing it; including robotic cookers, hot food vending machines, and 3D printers for food. Along with the advancements come the expense, and any entrepreneur will tell you, the cheaper you can produce something the better. This mindset has pushed processed foods into the American diet at an overwhelming rate. Over the past hundred years, the American diet has increased its percentage of processed foods to about 70%
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Stupidity is rampant and the only tangible goal in life is to have as many children as possible. The smartest person in the country is what we now see as painfully average. The people in this movie eat nothing but junk food, including many fast food chains such as Carl’s Jr. which makes an appearance in the country’s flag itself. In the movie, a Carl’s Jr. vending machine is shown when a mother is trying to buy food to feed her kid, but when the food she ordered doesn’t come out, she complains and says that she can’t even feed her child. Following this the vending machine speaks and contacts the authorities to take the child to a Carl’s Jr. foster home. Another example of the decline in this fictional society is a butter like substance that is rarely seen out of the hands of someone eating it. One of the most abundant examples of this decline are “Electrolytes”, nobody seems to know what they are, but everyone knows that it’s what everything needs, including plants. One of the major conflicts in the movie is about the shortage of fresh foods, coming from water being replaced by the sodium laden energy drink, ‘Brawndo’. The leaders of this dystopian country argue that the energy drink “Has what plants need, Electrolytes” (Idiocracy). While the protagonist (the previously mentioned, painfully average man) convinces the group to replace the drink with water, it takes a while for the plants to sprout, resulting in chaos before a companion of the protagonist films and streams the sprouts over live TV. While the people of America today know things like plants needing water to grow, the majority do not know how to prepare fresh ingredients for a healthy
Stupidity is rampant and the only tangible goal in life is to have as many children as possible. The smartest person in the country is what we now see as painfully average. The people in this movie eat nothing but junk food, including many fast food chains such as Carl’s Jr. which makes an appearance in the country’s flag itself. In the movie, a Carl’s Jr. vending machine is shown when a mother is trying to buy food to feed her kid, but when the food she ordered doesn’t come out, she complains and says that she can’t even feed her child. Following this the vending machine speaks and contacts the authorities to take the child to a Carl’s Jr. foster home. Another example of the decline in this fictional society is a butter like substance that is rarely seen out of the hands of someone eating it. One of the most abundant examples of this decline are “Electrolytes”, nobody seems to know what they are, but everyone knows that it’s what everything needs, including plants. One of the major conflicts in the movie is about the shortage of fresh foods, coming from water being replaced by the sodium laden energy drink, ‘Brawndo’. The leaders of this dystopian country argue that the energy drink “Has what plants need, Electrolytes” (Idiocracy). While the protagonist (the previously mentioned, painfully average man) convinces the group to replace the drink with water, it takes a while for the plants to sprout, resulting in chaos before a companion of the protagonist films and streams the sprouts over live TV. While the people of America today know things like plants needing water to grow, the majority do not know how to prepare fresh ingredients for a healthy