A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.B.F……
TEXT B
The fridge is considered a
necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with
the label: "store in the refrigerator. "
In my fridgeless
Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the
grocer, the butcher, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three
times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and
milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled
by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables
are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the
fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast
way of well-tried techniques already existed--natural cooling, drying, smoking,
salting, sugaring, bottling...
What refrigeration did promote
was marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks,
marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good
price.
Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be
found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy
countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary.
Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense,
busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated
house--while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of
charge.
The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been
evident, while its contribution to hu- man happiness has been insignificant. If
you don’t believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off
your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers, but at least you will get
rid of that terrible hum.
Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges
A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.
B.Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.
C.Food was sold fresh and did net get rotten easily.
D.People had effective ways to preserve their food.