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most important themes are Culture, Farming, American Life, and Respect. The evidence is most convincing when it
shows how monocultures do not work and explains why they do not exist in
nature. It shows a serious lack of
respect for animals, nature, and human life in general. Raising a farm on antibiotics,
pesticides, and herbicides is not good for anyone and in turn it is just
poisoning rather than increasing their quality of life, which is what farming, has
always been about. Even with animals as small as bees, there honey can actually be so full of chemicals that it is hurting the consumer. Raymond Hawlee is a bee keeper that told us "Chinese honey is banned in the U.S. due to the amount of chemicals in it". I have plenty
of doubts about the current farming methods and how industrialized they have
become. I am aware that animals
are not always treated well on family raised organic farms but the way they are
treated in industrial farms is grotesque and unethical. Chickens get their beaks/feet chopped off, piglets get their teeth torn out, and their diets consist of other dead animals, bugs, and rotting food. According to Russ Kremer "70% row crops are grown for multi-stomach herbivores that shouldn't eat that anyway." They are not fed well, not even fed what they are meant to eat in nature
and it is coming back on us by creating anti-biotic resistant staph infections
and diseases such as mad-cow. We
can apply these ideas to our own culture by realizing what we are doing to
ourselves by purchasing industry raised meat and having enough sense to know
how things grow the way nature intended.
Your ideas are very good one and the you were able to cover all the different themes of them film since there were so many in this film.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it made me not want to eat fast food again, since the meat they use is generally from these factories, to know that animals were abused and fed all those medications, when in their natural habitat they rarely get ill. It's all pointless, we should revert to old ways.
ReplyDeleteRespect is definitely a major theme in this film. The farmers who do work hard and raise their animals without all those chemicals and pesticides do not get the credit they deserve. They work hard to make their food healthier for the people, and also to make the environment healthier, but in turn they get hardly nothing. No one praises them for their work, and most of it goes unnoticed. We, as Americans, take a lot for granted.
ReplyDeleteA similar film which focuses more on additives and preservative chemicals in foods as well as pesticides is Food Inc. It would be a good one to watch if you are interested in the types of chemicals you can find in our food. It's pretty gross. What's worse are the guidelines that the FDA has in place allowing certain amounts of disgusting things to be present in our foods.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree that we should be aware of what we are doing but I think that we are so hung up on the fast and cheap we can't see it, It's sad to say but I think there would have to be something big hit our food industry and it has to have negative affects before everyone wakes up and does anything about it.
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