Wendell Berry's 'The Pleasures Of Eating'

According to Berry and Specter the role of the consumer in the food processing industry is reading the glossary before eating the food because it’s important to know what that food or drink has in it, or what is it consists of. Wendell Berry, author of "The Pleasures of Eating," disagree with American consumers by using unsound food because that will affect their bodies. Like eating donuts and drinking sweet tea, have they ever thought about how much sugar does sweet tea and donuts? usually donuts get covered with sugar or chocolate and making sweets take five pounds of sugar, a packet of tea, and three-quarters of water. So that sugar that they are getting in each cup of a sweet tea might make them having diabetes, also it is harmful. To many …show more content…
They think they are protecting themselves by drinking those vitamins.They know that it will affect their bodies, but people keep taking it, and they don’t care about themselves. Moreover, it is totally wrong to keep eating or drinking something that will make you sick instead of the people’s idea of keeping them awake “They buy what they want—or what they have been persuaded to want—within the limits of what they can get. They pay, mostly without protest, what they are charged”(paragraph 3). Basically people don't about how much calories each energy can has, and how much it cost, they only take it because they heard people saying about how it gives many ways of energy even when it doesn't and they totally know about it. Sometimes, they only imitate people who drink them. In total, people keep arguing that it must be good and helpful to handel my day to focus on my …show more content…
They are putting chemicals in the food, so they can grow faster and bigger in the seasons they are not suppose to. Back then farmers used to work so hard to get original or fresh; vegetables, fruits, and legumes, and if they plan something and it didn’t work they would have to throw the whole product away. “Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however,are no longer aware that this is true.They think of food as an agricultural product,perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture” (paragraph 3). Nationals does not care about themselves, the food they are eating anymore and this is not okay things has to change to the better way. If people can decide what they want by making a decision to break off the rule of letting farmers keep making unweal food, also if no one buys it they will have no choice other than stopping making that