New knowledge that I learned

Today I read “Business Weekly” magazine, they interviewed Jane Goodall who is the best famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family life. However, in this interview, she chose “sustain development of our earth” as the theme for discussion. And she made her point to the diet that human eat has significant effect on our earth. She mentioned that in order to produce more meat, people consume plenty of water and lots of grass and crops to do it. It causes energy crisis and destroy the earth. Her philosophy of this phenomenon is wise, she said human attach importance to eating nowadays is due to life’s meaningful things become less. And eating is a way of prompt contented to fill the vacancy. She thought modern diet condition can damage the environment. I think what we need do is to spend more time considering the food we eat. In Taiwan, we have some supermarkets that import variety of seafood, beef, pork, fruit, vegetable and many kinds of exotic sauce and spice. Although food globalization is quite convenient, it wastes lots of energy to transport those foods. Meanwhile, emissions of those harmful gases that airplanes, cars or ships discharge when they transport those foods are the killer of our earth. This is one of the reasons for global warming as well. In fact, Jane Goodall said, we are not selfish on purpose, we are unthinking. We never spend time thinking that why we have to eat exotic food that come from miles away from us. It is not necessary to say that we can not eat exotic food; instead, we can learn from realizing the culture of food or its history. It can make them become meaningful instead of just eating them. I appreciate Jane very much. She made me to observe and think more about the unusual things that seems normal happened in our daily life.