Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Industrial Food

In the movies of the Meatrix, I thought it was horrible of what they do to the animals, especially when the pig put on the glasses and saw that all the cows turned so unhealthy and deteriorated. And when they show how they take out the milk from the cows using machines and the baby cows have to drink blood, which causes the mad cow diseases to spread. All because they want the process of getting the final product to be as fast as possible. It is sad that even the workers are getting injured because the bosses wants to make money shows that our dominant foodways is bad and horrible. Even the process of turning the meat into products is bad, the organization and sanitary is very unhealthy and disgusting. In the movie 2.5, the way they cut the meat and by hurrying the process, bacteria and other bad things gets on the products makes me feel that we do not appreciate the animals that has been killed and rather than eating them like God has given them to us, we are doing the opposite. 
In the article, "
Industrial Food isn't Cheap", it talks about how the food that we buy that we think is cheap is not actually cheap at all, considering all the expenses that we need to pay to cover the damages industrial farming has done such as "tens of billions of dollars in taxes, medical expenses, toxic clean-ups, insurance premiums, and other pass-along costs to subsidize industrial food producers". I think it tells how it takes up a lot of work just to grow a land of plants because the farmers needs these equipments and needs a huge amount of pesticides because the insects would get immune to it and the damages it gets in to the workers and the payment needed to cover those costs. The consumers that are not farming would not notice it because they are only trying to get the cheapest and good-looking vegetables or meat. It shows how this culture's dominant foodways work that we do not really care about how the plant had gone through but as to whether the plant is cheap or not. Additionally, the "topsoil" that the nature produces, we are destroying it many times faster, causing more chemicals to be put into the soil and into the plant. And I don't think many of the consumers know that we are eating more of the chemicals than the plant.

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