I have viewed Food Inc. as part of previous courses and the message has never left such an impression on me before. This semester my English class discussed The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. While many people interpret that novel as a an expose on the meat packing industry, I truly saw the unsanitary mistreatment of meat products as a metaphor for the labor of the meat packing industry. I convinced myself that all those hygienic, abuse issues with the animals and meat products themselves were resolved. Viewing this video again after my recent experience interpreting that novel and discussing the Monsanto legal disputes the past couple of weeks in Environmental Science 202, my opinion has made a 360 in a matter of minutes. Agriculture is where I see my major in Environmental Science taking me. While I hoped to see the transformation of the industry for the better in terms of pesticides, crop rotations, conservative tilling practices and many other resourceful methods implemented through strict regulation and standardization in order to protect individual farmers without harming food security, local farming proves it is truly the perfect solution. Unfortunately, until that time
I will have to try harder to find local farmers, especially meat farmers. I
will have to make it through meal plan for only a couple more weeks and figure
out a way to support myself locally next year. I’m just extremely pleased with
my decision to order a vegetarian burrito before this class.
it is a hard movie to watch! I feel the factory-farming industry really serves the execs of a few multi-million dollar corporations, but they have a huge lobby. The industry really needs more attention from law-makers
ReplyDeleteFood Inc. was an eye opening movie. I can't believe I used to eat that food. I have totally changed my view of food from fast food corporations and even the food I buy in the grocery store. Local farmers markets are the way to go!
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