First off sorry if i posted in the wrong part of the forums this looked like the best place. Okay now to the question, i was talking to my science teacher about it. I thought that it was a good idea. If food had no taste we would only eat when we needed to fixing obesity. It would also be cheap to make tasteless food thus less hungry people/less people dieing from hunger. Lastly if we had no taste in food we would never complain about someone at lunch having something better then you. Thanks for the feedback.

Discuss..

so your advocating taking something away from all people to coddle the weaklings that have no willpower and cant put the goddamn fork down?

and if your complaining about someone else having something better then you need to grow the fuck up and be happy that you have something to eat.

God damn calm down. The last part about the better things at lunch is a joke. Im just saying. Im just asking a question

i would be fully against it. im not sacrificing the taste of my food so some lazy person can lose weight w/o having to do manual labor.

/e what i got from your paragraph is all food be tasteless.

This post was edited by cialda on Sep 21 2011 01:31pm

Who said food without taste would be cheap to make? Food's nutritional values would have a much higher role in producing food, so most nutrient rich and healthy foods would be most expensive. So there will be expensive and cheap food. Also, if food's value is determined in terms of nutritional values (and maybe composition and feel in the mouth), you would still be envious of people eating better food, if you are envious of people eating better-tasting food.

It could have possible effect regarding obesity, but there's two things: people with a messed up hunger-centre (hypothalamus iirc), will get obese easily anyway. They eat to satisfy their endless feeling of hunger. Then also, food might be a pleasure for some in terms of composition (mentioned above), maybe some fatty foods have a better composition than ones containing less fat, so inactive people would spend their days watching sports and eating anyway. But yes I still believe this would decrease obesity.

There is a reason also for why we taste foods; we distinguish the edible, the food-gone-bad and the inedible things (toxins often taste bad). I don't know if tasteless food would taste bad if it went bad, but I assuming it wouldn't that's not good. We spit out food that tastes wrong.

Lastly, I enjoy tasty food, and many, many others do so too. I doubt people would want to ingest tasteless nutrition when we can do it with pleasure.

To tell you all the truth what im seeing is semi-greed. No one is willing to give up eating flavorful food to better the world. I would.

Maybe try reading the first paragraph I wrote?



Ah, then I must apologise. Nevermind.

This post was edited by Holod on Sep 21 2011 02:20pm

I said "semi" By this i ment some people had good arguments. Like you. I understand were you are coming from.

I am also saying that i know this will never in a million years happen i just want opinions on the madder.

Its ok its my fault. I should have said that.