Entry #7 Fresh

   

  Has anyone ever truly cared about where their food comes from? I mean everybody has to eat and as more and more people are being born, more and more meat has to be produced. This kind of thinking has led to the food industry being industrialized. Instead of having tons of family farmers producing our food, just a few companies produce it in large manufactured buildings instead of the open world. The movie Fresh shows us that there are thousands of animals being forced into small enclosed spaces, being pumped with antibiotics, and fed food that they should of never been fed before. It opens the question as to is this humane? Is this really the way that we're supposed to produce our food? Is this how we feed the world?

   Fresh shows us that it's not the only way we have to live. There were farmers earning more money per square footage with their animals grazing on grass than crammed into corners in a huge buildings. These buildings cost insane amounts of money to produce and on top of it, they have to spend exemplary amounts on the antibiotics they have to force into their animals because of the way that they keep them together. The film is optimistic of our future in that maybe we can change one day, maybe we can go back to family farming and raise these animals in a way that we don't have to feel guilty about it.

    The most surprising thing to me is that nobody wants to produce food this way. They don't want industrial farming. It's the big companies that own them that force them into these 7 year contracts and keep them in debt so that they have to buy their live stock and their food from them. Our farmers simply do not have the choice and it's unfair. These big companies don't see what their doing to these animals and to these people doing their dirty work. All that they see are the dollar signs that come flowing their way, and its heartbreaking for everyone it impacts.

    We are so far from change because we don't choose the prices of what food we want to eat. If we want to eat these free-range and organic prices, we would have to pay a hefty price for it. That's why things don't change, people just can't afford it and as long as the industrial farming produces its cheap products, it never will. Maybe one day it can, but it will be a deadly long process for all.