- 11/02/2013
- Posted by: essay
- Category: Free essays
One of the strongest positive points of the global market is that we feel we are the masters of our lives: we are free to choose everything we want without putting much effort. This feeling encourages and inspires us.
Another positive point I can mention may be fairly called global as it is complex and needs further investigation. To my mind the history of every fruit, vegetable or plant has certain meaning: knowing that the vegetable A grows primarily on the fields of Zambia first of all means that there are the best conditions for its growth comparing to other places and such conditions are responsible for its delicious taste, perfect smell and fresh look. When people try to get it to their native lands they aim to make similar conditions for this vegetable. Often it is very hard or even impossible to do it. Technological and chemical progress lends a helping hand in such a situation: you may use different chemicals and various technological devices to help the plant to grow and it works. But what actually we get? The vegetable A will hardly ever have its initial taste, smell and look. It will transform to a strange extraordinary and expensive vegetable B for growing of which people will clear forests and contaminate soil with chemicals. May be it would be more purposeful to pay more attention to the traditionally grown plants, so that I am convinced the level of chemicals used for planting would lower since all the plants could easily grow on their native fields.
Think Globally, Act Locally
As far as I am concerned this statement means that it is not always good to start any kind of activity with complex and difficult challenges. In fact you may fail and loose your confidence for a long period of time while many small steps may provide you with more effective and promising results. Nevertheless it is necessary to remember the nature of things: seek for the roots of the problem and not sequences of it. Referring to the research work I may interpret this phrase in such a way: enjoy the opportunities that global market gives you but remember to think about negative impacts of it too. Pay attention to the foods you are buying and this will be the first step in solving the problems of our really borderless society.
Evidently, this research work made me ponder over the impacts of global market on our lives. I found out that it was needed to read labels in order to get to know what compounds the food contains, to be curious as for where the product came from and what the proper conditions for storage of it had to be. Although one should be always attentive in choosing the products from the different countries, it is great to feel free to taste product from all over the world.
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