The One-Straw Revolution - Multiworld India

Food is not delicious unless a person thinks it is. Although most peoplethink that beef and chicken are delectable, to a person who for physicalor spiritual reasons has decided that he dislikes them, they are repulsive.Just playing or doing nothing at all, children are happy. Adiscriminating adult, on the other hand, decides what will make himhappy, and when these conditions are met he feels satisfied. Foods tastegood to him not necessarily because they have nature's subtle flavors andare nourishing to the body, but because his taste has been conditioned tothe idea that they taste good.Wheat noodles are delicious, but a cup of instant noodles from avending machine tastes extremely bad. But, by advertising, remove theidea that they taste bad, and to many people even these unsavory noodlessomehow come to taste good.There are stories that, deceived by a fox, people have eaten horsemanure. It is nothing to laugh about. People nowadays eat with theirminds, not with their bodies. Many people do not care if there ismonosodium glutamate in their food, but they taste only with the tip ofthe tongue, so they are easily fooled.At first people ate simply because they were alive and because foodwas tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not preparefood with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do nottry to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.The first consideration should be to live in such a way that the fooditself tastes good, but today all the effort goes instead into addingtastiness to food. Ironically, delicious foods have all but vanished.People tried to make delicious bread, and delicious breaddisappeared. In trying to make rich luxurious foods they made uselessfoods, and now people's appetites are unsatisfied.137