Food and mankind

We are living in jet age, where the name of the game is swiftness. Everything is in the fast lane - including food. Many ancient cultures had strongly believed that the secret to mankind's well-being lay in the kind of food being consumed and the way it is to be consumed. Hinduism strongly advocates that the main cause of health problems is not lack of food but conflict within the body due to "incompatible" food.

Today's fast world seems to have thrown all age-old and tested food practices away. One of the main requirements of food- freshness , has been compromised for the sake of "convenience" ... courtesy the refrigerator at home, and deep-freeze devices in shops and super-markets. No one has apparently questioned the wisdom of storing foodstuff in plastic containers, and the kind of chemical reactions plastic may undergo with such food, and their consequences. Cling-wrap plastic clings to all kinds of fruits, vegetables and ready-to-eat food closer and tighter than the eager girl clinging to her boyfriend in the Metro station. We all know the almost foregone consequence of those two love-lost souls clinging, but what about cling-wrap on food? No one knows how a strong ingredient like turmeric can react to plastic when stored in plastic bottles and sachets.

Is this the price we all have to pay for being "modern"? Does leading a fast life necessarily mean that we compromise on our health by artificially creating conflict in the body through "contaminated" food?

Is this natural part of human evolution? Or is Kalki on His way here sooner rather than later?