Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Fresh: The Movie One MUST Watch

First off, watching this for a second time has made different topics stick out and re-enforced other opinions I had formed from the first viewing. An example being that I believe monocultures are just horrid. I could best compare it to London during the industrial revolution where so many people where crammed together in a small area with horrible conditions around them, and diseases were spread easily from one person to the next.

Of course, from the first time watching Fresh the only thing to really stick out was the issue of food. How much of a "good thing" is pumped into these poor animals or plants that eventually leads to mass production of disease? But this time the topic of the environment peeked my interest. I know for a fact, near the Killdeer Plains, a hog "farm" is operating, and you know when you get close. The smell turns your stomach and the only thought is to get as far away from there as possible. That smell must be a sign of more though. And where exactly is all that waste being pumped to? And it goes beyond that really. How do chemicals that crop dusters spray effect the rest of the ecosystem? What other bugs are you killing that are a source of food for another creature? How does that effect us in the end? The thoughts on this topic are just too continuous.

Americans are great at turning a blind eye when something works for them. All this, the stuff shown in the film- the modern farming, the chemicals pumped into food, the way corporations go in and trap old school farmers- is what runs the country. Why would Americans acknowledge it? If it's not broken, why fix it? But no one is paying close enough attention to observe that the very system used is broken, and needs replace. It's the turning of the blind eye.

5 comments:

  1. I agree it really is a big question where all of the waste from all of these farms go, and how that affects our water sources.

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  2. "Americans are great at turning a blind eye when something works for them" this is pretty great and can be applied to a lot of things. It's hard to change someones mind once they like something.

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  3. Really enjoyed your comparison with monocultures and the Industrial revolution in England. A little humorous comparing pigs to people but without a doubt the same type of scenario with cramped quarters and spreading of disease.

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  4. American are good at turning a blind eye to something that works for us. We find an efficient way of doing something and we try and apply it to everything we do even when it clearly will not work and will just cause more problems for us in the end. PRIME example disease among the animals from all the "good things" were pumping into their bodies. Great post.

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  5. Most people are given very little reason to question where it is there food comes from, its cheap and its food, that is good enough for most people.

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