The most important theme of the video was the idea of mass producing products. After watching how they have thousands of animals in little areas and pump them full of drugs is just gross. Another thing that stuck out to me was the idea of buying food fresh and grown by farmers who actually care about the quality if the produce. The evidence that is most convincing is when they show the barns that have 2,500 cows and pigs and they say to keep them alive they have to pump drugs into them. Also the chicken farms have 10,000+ chickens in there and its just a nasty sight.
Some questions i might have are, why must you mass produce the way you do? There has to be a better way to produce a lot of goods in a more humane and less gross way. We can apply these by buying less from the store and buying more from a farmers market, that way you know it is quality and done with care. Berry says "They relied on their imports". This was because a group on Native Americans focused on one thing they stopped producing food for themselves. The film and Berry's essay are similar because they both talk about how giant companies are destroying little farm towns because they can't keep up with producing. In the film it says " I'm not leaving here, until everyone says they can do it". This is when one gentleman was showing them how to make natural compost.
I agree with you that buying freshly grown products at the store will help us and would be healthier than the alternative! By watching the video I learned a lot about the industrial food chain and what types of drugs and harmful things they harm animals with--just for the consumers benefit. I wonder the same question you do: why must this be the only way to mass produce food?
ReplyDeleteI feel that the question to the food companies why do you do what you do is an amazing question I would wonder the same.
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