man food

MAN & FOOD:

Man can not live without food. In fact no living things-animal or plants can survive without food. The search for food was mans first occupation. He made first weapons to hunt animals or food. Gradually he learnt how to grow food plants. Thus he invented agriculture and settled in communities besides his corn-fields.

People do not eat the same food all over the world. It varies from place to place. The eating habits of the people of a country largely on its geographical position, climate, soil. That is to say the kinds of food that people eat depend on what the can grow or afford to buy from other countries. For instance people inn the tropical countries eat a lot of foods and vegetables which grow abundantly in these reasons meat is eaten in the countries that have large pasture for grazing livestock. Large meat eating countries are Australia, Argentina, Canada and the U.S.A. it is quiet natural that fish would be important food in the countries with large sea-costs, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Japan are examples of such countries. Much of the food of Japan which is a country of islands comes from the sea. They eat a lot of sea foods such as shrimps and oysters, as well as mineral-rich seaweed. Cereals however are the important part of the world’s food supply. About half of the world population lives on rice. It is the staple food in Asian countries like Bangladesh. India, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, Philippines and Sri Lanka. Others depend on wheat, barley, rye, oats etc. Thus we see that the kinds of food that people eat vary through out the world.