In many countries traditional food is being replaced by international fast food. This has adverse effects on families, individuals and the society. Do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion

Food

is a principal need in human life. Some people believe that it is better to have international

junk

food

rather than countries' specific

meals

,

while

others claim replacing fast

food

with countries' own cuisine has a negative impact on families, individuals and society itself. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter. I feel

this

way for a number of reasons, which I am going to illustrate in the following paragraphs. First and foremost, having

junk

meals

will harm family gatherings. In most countries, families gather on Sunday to have their traditional

meals

. If they have snack

food

instead

of traditional cuisine,

this

ceremony will lose its meaning.

For example

, in my family, we always gather to have our traditional meal “plov” on Sundays. All the family members come on

this

day to have it and

this

is like a ceremony for us. Once we replaced it with other international

meals

such

as a pizza, but in the end, no one was satisfied with the meal and most of them went earlier at home. Everyone can eat

junk

food

on their own, but classic

meals

should be a must for family gatherings.

Last

but not least, new generations will not know the way of cooking traditional

meals

, if they are replaced with

junk

foods. Everyone learns anything by practising. If no one in the family cooks traditional

meals

, their kids will not know about the meal and the way of cooking them. My nephew’s experience is a compelling example of

this

. When my nephew was nine years old, no one in his family cooked our traditional

meals

. He mostly ordered the

meals

, since his parents worked all day.

Hence

he only had our local

meals

on Sundays when he came to his grandparents. He had no idea how to cook our local foods and I think if new generations do not value our traditional

food

,

this

will affect negatively our society. All in all, I definitely think that international

junk

meals

should not be replaced with local foods, since it has an adverse impact on families, individuals and societies.

This

is because traditional

meals

are a must in family gatherings, and new generations will not value our traditional

meals

.