Food: From the Factory to Your Table
By Alexander Nunez
Let me paint you a picture… “In a local supermarket in Anywhere, USA, lies aisles of products waiting to be picked up and purchased by a mother to take home for tonight’s dinner. In this case, a whole chicken and vegetables for a veggie stir-fry. She then drives home to prepare the meal for her loving family. She washes it and begins to prepare it for cooking, cleaning it with vinegar, then salt, and covering it with plentiful of seasoning. After that, she grabs a pan and puts it onto the kitchen stove. The chicken is then placed onto a baking pan, covered with aluminum foil, and thrown into the oven, set to 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the pan was heated up, the vegetables were put into the pan, alongside a dosage of olive oil. Moving the pan back and forth, the vegetables were flying high in mid-air in a sizzling mist.”
***ONE HOUR LATER***

“After an hour of waiting, the scent of the chicken grew stronger every passing minute, as well as the stir fry sitting in the pan, still sizzling. The mother calls her kids to the dinner table. She takes the chicken out of the oven and rids the aluminum foil, revealing a golden brown chicken glistening in the light. The stir fry is taken out of the pan and is put on a large plate. Her husband arrives home from work, being greeted with hugs and kisses from his children. He and his children sit at the dinner table awaiting the arrival of the family meal. Out from the kitchen, the mother has a perfectly made chicken surrounded with lettuce and plum tomatoes. She sets it on top of the table and re-enters the kitchen. She grabs the stir fry and quickly exits out of the kitchen. As the mother lays the stir fry down onto the table, one child asked the question of what the stir fry is. The mother replied that the stir fry is made out of carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, and