This exhibition makes people think deeply about eating. In the past, eating was just a normal thing for me, like breathing. I never take the time to think about what it means to eat. After watching the exhibition, I have some new ideas.
First and foremost, all mammals, including humans, suck at birth. Even before the baby’s eyes are open, it is an instinct to look for the mother’s nipples to nurse to life. No one teaches newborn babies how to drink breast milk, but the ability for survival drives them to suck hard. The experience of babies tells us that people eat to live, not live to eat. However, with the improvement of people’s living standards, more and more people pursue to eat delicious and healthy food. Food became a status symbol. People who can eat delicacies in fancy restaurants are often considered to obtain individual wealth. The difference in diet became the basis for dividing people into social classes. As a result, some people mistakenly believe that people live to eat (Fisher 92). These people’s misconceptions contradict the mechanical behavior of eating at the birth of life.
In the second place, eating is of considerable significance to human evolution and development. In general, humans are superior to other creatures by learning how to use tools. The use of fire is an outstanding example. By learning to use fire, the man slowly learned to eat cooked food. Cooked food contains far fewer bacteria and parasites than raw food, so people are less likely to get sick. The body better absorbs the protein in cooked meat. Eating cooked food has contributed to human evolution to some extent.
Last but not least, eating drives the formation of different human cultures. Differences in diet make for physiological differences in humans. Different foods have different meanings for different races. As a result, some food is often placed in the human missing and feelings, such as Chinese dumplings.
reference
Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy, and Joan Reardon. The art of eating. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.