Thursday, January 20, 2011
Throughout the movie Food Inc the issues within our society are made impeccably clear. The biggest issue that I see our country currently grappling with is the search for a more sustainable and affordable food source that we can readily produce and sell for a reasonable price. In essence The United States as a whole needs to restore to our people honesty and faithfulness in the production of our food. We need to rid our markets of unhealthy foods and replace them with wholesome choices such as vegetables and organically raised meats. The factory system has deeply harmed our society and turned something as primitive and humane as eating into an issue over which we must delve. One can no longer lay complete trust in the hands of the grocery store. What we might easily believe as a healthy substance such as spinach or tomatoes could very well be infected with ecoli or salmonella and pose a great threat to our lives. Something as raw, simple, and true to the earth as a vegetable has been polluted by overproduction and the greed of human kind. The desire to earn a profit has turned our production of food into a barbaric system. The images that were shown to me of pigs and cattle awaiting their imminent death were strangely reminiscent of images of the holocaust. While we may be able to justify the killing of these animals for food, the treatment of these animals cannot be justified in any way shape or form. While society seems to have advanced technologically and new means of producing food have allowed us to do so much more effectively we have lost the primal sense of need for this food. It is almost as if society has gone back in time rather than improving. In order to regain this sense of purity and our food we must take as step back away from the factories and simplify our system. Organically raised foods are not only the healthiest options but what our country survived on for many years prior to the invasion of the factory. There is no need for the over priced vegetables. I would rather eat an apple with holes in it than one drenched in pesticides. Our current food production system is corrupt and in order to fix it we must return to the ways of our ancestors benefitting not only ourselves, but the planet as well.
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