Food plays a role in every person’s life, without it human kind would have died out many centuries ago. A person basic nature is to survive and therefore one needs to eat. However, as society progresses into a new age run by machines people are starting to take for granted the simplicity and beauty of the food that fuels their bodies. Instead of choosing fresh fruit and meats they are eating processed food that are chemically made in factories. No longer is food thought to be a product of the land that needs to be skillfully prepared, something that takes time and effort, instead food has become a product for one to buy at a store. The dying tradition of a family meal has much been a side effect to the new type of food that people are eating. Frozen meals, fast food burgers or take out Chinese have replaced the fresh vegetable and chicken meals of the past. Food is no longer thought to be an extension of the ground but as a product for an individual to buy at a store. The type of person who choosing to buy food because the box its in looks pretty or because its quick and does not consider where it comes from but instead sees it no different than mere product manufactured by a factory is an ‘industrial eater.’ In the past few decades American have began to see food as a product and themselves as consumer forgetting about the real origin and function of food. Food is supposed to come from the soil grown by farmers who take joy to tend to their cornfields and collecting eggs from chickens. Sadly, with each upcoming year farms seem to be disappearing, replaced by fast food restaurants and supermarkets chains concerned with making money and vast amount of products. According to Wendell Berry, that “as scale increases, diversity declines; as diversity declines, so does health; as health declines, the dependence on drugs and chemicals necessarily increases.” Berry is trying to express how by replacing farms with factories m