This week's reading consisted of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma." The first section focuses on the impact of corn in our diets and lives. The following sentence really stood out to me...
I can understand wanting our food to last a little longer - for storing and shipping reasons, even for marketing reasons. However, what I cannot understand is why we think we're smarter than nature! For our entire existence (or any species existence for that matter), we adapt and evolve based on our environment. Then we begin thinking we're smarter and better than the world in which we live and rather than adapting to it, we decide we're going to make it adapt to us. Maybe I don't understand evolution, but this doesn't seem correct to me. Granted, we are still going to be evolving, because now our bodies have to adapt to our new food-like substances. This just seems like an unnecessary process to me.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
I agree, plants evolve to fit their environment without us even taking notice. I gave gingko trees as an example on my reflection from class last night.
ReplyDeleteMaybe now nature will evolve based on man (the dominant species) vs the other way around? it seems every time we get a little ahead of ourselves, nature self corrects and puts us back in our place. Maybe times are changing? Probably not.
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