先哲早就把人的功能活动概括为“食色,性也”。在人类的这两大功能活动中,食的功能和活动当然是占第一位的,所谓民以食为天。然而今天我们吃的是什么和怎么吃的呢?仔细看看我们一日三餐就会发现,我们正在吃下的正是我们极力想躲开的、可能会毒害我们的形形色色的食品。(一)早就有人在担心转基因食品的安全性问题,担心引入食物的外源性基因对人产生危害。但是如今真正要担心的却应是为人们熟视无睹的食物成分——大量的生长激素。美国如今生产的牛肉就是一个例子。过去的一年中,欧盟对美国出口的2600万头牛进行检查,发现它们被注射了生长激素,而且欧洲人怀疑美国的肉牛50%被 Sage philosophy has long been summarized as “food color, sex also ”. Of these two major human activities, the functions and activities of food of course take the first place. However, what we eat today and how to eat it? A closer look at the three meals a day we will find that we are eating exactly what we try to escape, may poison our food of all kinds. (A) Some people are already worried about the safety of genetically modified foods, worries about the introduction of food exogenous genes harmful to humans. But what really needs to be feared nowadays should be food ingredients that turn a blind eye to people - a lot of growth hormones. The beef that the United States now produces is an example. In the past year, the EU examined 26 million cattle exported from the United States and found they were injected with growth hormone, and Europeans suspect that 50% of the beef cattle in the United States