Essay #416 "The Development of Food Industry" 10.03.19 Over recent decades people has developed drastically in many different spheres of their activities and food industry is one of them. Many of us cannot even appreciate the beneficial changes that happened in this area in the last years. In my opinion, this has affected people in a highly positive way and made our lives much easier than it used to be. The development of food production has greatly impacted people’s lives and helped them to make them much more convenient. Nowadays people has a great access to any kind of food and are able to satisfy all their, even the most exquisite, demands. This has become possible only because of the great leap which this industry has made in recent decades. At the same time developed food infrastructure can ensure the quality of food which has a highly beneficial effect on our society. This not only raise the bar and improve our living standards, but also this makes shopping much safer as people can be sure that all food they buy, maybe not always of a great quality, but at least it is not a threat for their health. Also the widespread of restaurants and cafes has given people a great opportunity to diversify their diet and therefore diversify their lives. As cuisine plays a huge role in people’s lives it is very important for them to have a wide range of different choices as this dramatically increases their living standards. All this has become possible only because of our technological progress in this sphere. To conclude, in spite of the fact that many people believe that the development of food industry has provided quite a negative effect on our lives, it is not true. With its development people has gained many opportunities and drastically simplified their lives. Thus, we have to look at things much wider that we used to, only by doing so we will be able to appreciate all great things about technological progress and its influence on our lives.