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Essay / The impact of globalization on the food industry
Food is consumed in a way that implies identity and a need for connection between the person who cooks or prepares the food and the person who eats it. This article is an excellent article capable of making a distinct connection between food and culture. For example, the tortilla has great cultural significance for the Mexican people, and through the development of the tortilla, the world's view of the culture has transformed. It has transformed in many ways, from what would culturally be put on a tortilla, to the flavor of the tortilla, to the distribution of tortilla ingredients, for example from a wheat-based formula to a corn-based formula (Lind and Braham. 2004). ). However, the author views this negatively, saying that the culture of the Mexican people is being lost as the tortilla becomes globalized, which is not necessarily the case. I believe that the way a particular culture views food can actually inspire global change in the way other cultures and other people consume, prepare, and view their foods. The author continually suggests that because of globalization, all cultures, not just Mexican culture, are losing connection with their foods when in retrospect, this is the tendency of everything to evolve. The author uses the idea that food is a commodity; where the commodity is defined, in