What does truly matter?

Have you ever wondered why such innovations have been made in some things but in others not? Science is acknowledged as a very important science, while many other not so knowledge required areas are known for. Cooking for instance, is very important to us, but we pay very little attention to it. Why people have given new technological advancements in areas for oil industries, than in gardening? Well obviously because one is more imperative and important than the other. However who makes that choice? Who decides what is more important and what we should place our attention in? 

Ladle (n): a deep-bowled long-handled spoon used
especially for dipping up and conveying liquids

For example, to make my point I ask myself: is science more important than cooking? Many people would clearly answer that science because it is the basis of our technology and knowledge about the world. However, have you ever stopped and thought that without food, and therefore cooking we wouldn't be alive to develop new technologies?  People underestimate the importance of cooking, and leave it as a hobby or second hand chore. Bee Wilson states in her book Consider the Fork that there was very "little impetus-until very recently-to develop labor-saving devices" (Pg 165).  I hate thinking that the reason behind this is the fact that people tend to ignore what's most important, such as cooking.

Usually what we least value is what we desire the most once we lose it. No one thought on making the housewives work any easier, as it seemed a simple job. No one though in relieving physical work from servants in the eighteenth century, or from burning turnspits. Likewise Wilson says that "the technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth" (Pg 170). The truth is not nice, or colorful. Its harsh and sad. Many people think that having money is enough in the world, and they are terribly incorrect. People should care about the welfare of others, and especially those who are served my many, such as kings and queens. These people however, are those that many times care the less, and the more they have the more blinded they become. To them, it doesn't matter if someone is killed to provide them the most exquisite food. Women skeletons have been found with "signs of acute arthritis, with knees, hips and ankles severely worn by kneeling down and rocking back and forth to crush grain against stone" (Pg. 153). Isn't it absurd the price people have to pay, in order to serve fat selfish wealthy people?

Pestle (n): a usually club-shaped implement for
pounding or grinding substances in a mortar

We humans are selfish and we tend to overcome others hard work, as we didn't had to do it. It seems much easier to say something, than to do it. People have "very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own" (Pg 166). I really liked what Wilson said because it is the truth, and it is a truth many times we don't acknowledge, and surpass without noticing it. It is something we should have noticed a long time ago. Cooking nowadays isn't as harsh as before, but the problem is that cooking was one of many examples. There are many situations of hard, unfair labor that people don't pay much attention to, and should. Colombian sweat shops for instance.