The Breakfast Egg E-Book

Maria Cura

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 20

Beschreibung

Like our ancestors, many of us still like it to eat a soft-boiled egg for breakfast. But unlike 100 years ago, many people and technology must work together to enable and maintain the trade in eggs. Everything is easy for the consumer: fresh eggs are always found in the supermarket. But how much things have to function, so that we really find punctually our eggs when shopping. Almost all our products are embedded in countless dependencies. The breakfast egg is only an example of a profound change, which we do often barely perceive consciously. This little book is an excerpt from the German book "Geschenk Lebenssinn" by Maria Cura.

Leseprobe

The Breakfast Egg

NoteThanksAbout my translationForewordHow was it on a farm 50 years ago?The Dependencies in which our Breakfast Egg (from the Supermarket) stands todayCopyright

Note

This little book is an excerpt from the German book "Geschenk Lebenssinn"by Maria Cura.

Thanks

Grateful to the chickens,

who have been giving

tasteful eggs

to us

since ancient times

About my translation

Since I do not have the opportunity to hire a pro-fessional translator, I try to translate this little book by myself.

So if something seems unusual to you - please be lenient - I am doing my very best.

What is meant to be said in this little book can be understood even if some passages should be not quite clear. But I am optimistic, that everything is understandable.

Foreword

The breakfast egg, which was eaten 100 or 50 years ago, looked just like today and probably tasted about as we know it.

But the way and the environment, in which the egg was laid, transported and sold is now completely different to the old times. But the issue here in the book is not the well known theme of animal protection.

Rather, it is about dependencies that all play a role until the egg can be consumed by us. These dependencies have dramatically increased over the last 50 years. Dependencies are not only found in the process of laying eggs, transporting and selling them, but they also can be found in many other areas and these areas are widely ramified. If, as happened here, one tries to sum up the dependencies, then a surprisingly long "litany" comes about.

The egg (and its environment), that served as a breakfast egg 50 years ago I confront with an egg from a great chicken farm of today (2017). It may be that the list of dependencies is not complete, or the one or other point is not necessary (e.g., robots for packaging). The point here is not to provide an exact instruction for the construction and operation of an chicken farm. But the general impression, that comes up by reading the following text, shows typically, in how many aspects most of the products we consume are dependent, how many areas all must function and work together, until that the product can finally be acquired by us in the usual way. Very often, when we are consumers, we do not realize the many dependencies.