Monday, February 17, 2014

Kaylah's Exploration 4

In the movie Fresh, one of the main themes is convenience.  Most people don't eat healthy because it is more convenient to drive down the street and get a cheeseburger from McDonald's.  What they don't realize, though, is that the food that they are consuming is full of hormones and pesticides.  For farmers such as Mr. and Mrs. Fox they know that conventional farming is best, but because of the economy they have chosen industrialization.  Mr. and Mrs. Fox had to sign a seven year contract or else they would not receive any chickens and therefore not make any money.  Sooner or later they will realize that efficiency doesn't work, though.  Russ Kremer tried industrial farming and had the thought of "how many pigs can I push through?"  He later realized that it doesn't work that way.  He exterminated his animals and began to start over.  For farmers like Michael Pollan, he believed that conventional farming should be the only kind of farming.  Pollan said, "Nature doesn't have monocultures" which means that sooner or later she will destroy them.  Joel Salatin believes that we need to respect the design of nature.  He said it perfectly; "Nature is screaming ENOUGH to our industrialized culture."  Instead of feeding cows other dead cows, farmers need to treat the herbivore as an herbivore first, and then the rest will fall into place.

3 comments:

  1. "Most people don't eat healthy because it is more convenient to drive down the street and get a cheeseburger from McDonald's." People consider time to be a factor, and fast food typically is served quickly. Also it costs cheaper so people would rely on eating a cheeseburger rather than eating a authentic meal at a restaurant.

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  2. The convenience theme was not one that stood out to me initially but now thinking back, I think that is a great theme to have found and pulled out. You make a great point that people want what is most easily accessible and less about eating healthy.

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  3. "Most people don't eat healthy because it is more convenient to drive down the street and get a cheeseburger from McDonald's"

    I completely agree with this. It is going to take something huge in this country for this to change and take health to the next step. Sadly though I dont think that time will ever come as for fast food though because it is just so cheap and so convenient. I believe legislation will have to be enacted in order for change to occur.

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