Exploration 12

Exploration 12

The ideas that seemed most important in the documentary were that our community as a whole is eating less fresh foods. All of the fast foods, packaged foods, and other foods all go through an extreme process to get them ready to sell. They do the best to make everything easy and convienent. "Americans fear only one thing; inconvience." They focus more on how the food looks before they look at taste and quality because they know that look will sell. The pointed out how eating fresh foods is actually healthier for you. The processed foods have so many preservatives in them to keep them longer that they are really bad.

Exploration 12

In the documentary, the thing that seem important to me was raising the animals  the right way instead of the big corporations do. So called it is important to have fresh food not ones that got things in or on it.You have to feed them what they actual need, not dead animal because it helps them grow. You have to let them be free and roam on land not be confined. If you have a lot if species that are confined, you have to give them antibodies so they don't get sick. But you if you have a lot of one species and they are not confined, you don't have to give the antibodies because they are not as close as they would be in a confined area. Just as it says in this quote I took from the movie, "The only way of having so many species is by antibodies." I need more information about fresh food, not so much on the fruit and veggies we eat but the fresh meat that is supposedly better for you.

Exploration Twelve

I think the most important idea in the documentary Fresh was that organic food is more sustainable and better for you than chemically processed and grown foods. The documentary follows many different organic farmers who claim that their farms are far more productive than farms that use herbicides and pesticides. They make a good point about how the farmers that do use those products are pushing Mother Nature to her limits of production, and that ultimately it will end up failing sometime in the future. "We can tip the balance of nature to a certain extent, but if you tip it too far it becomes a problem." I am kind of worried about our country's future because we are such a big supplier for argriculture and if something bad happened the results would be catastrophic. I think that using pesticides and herbicides is dangerous because whatever it is that is trying to be killed will build up resistance, so over time it will get harder and harder to kill, meaning we will have to increase the amount of chemicals used, or change what is being used. It is however very hard to buy only organic food because it is so expensive.

Harvey Milk

Standing for who you are can be terrifying at times

Especially when who you are may be considered a crime

Harvey Milk wanted the American Dream

But with all of the criticism it wasn't as close as it seemed

He got caught up in the hippie era, peace and love

He loved politics so he had to stop looking like a bum

He cut his hair and for supervisor he decided to run

By leading marches with gay activists by day and by night

He knew he had to fight for what was right

Sexuality doesn't make you different 

And everybody just needs to learn how to cope with it

He did finally get put into power

The tragic end got Harvey face to face with a gun

But as for LGBT it has only begun 

Exploration 12

I thought that the documentary Fresh was very eye opening and informational. The thing that I thought was most interesting was the farmer who would move his cows and then have the chickens follow them. I know some farmers move their cows from pasture to pasture, but he was going above and beyond taking care of the land. They really stressed the importance of not relying on just one source of food or a limited number because what would happen if we lost that. "When you grow too much of the same thing, you end up with too many pests of the same thing". That is interesting to apply to farming today and just this last year with the drought devastating the crops in the Midwest and food prices immediately started to go up. We heavily rely on all of those crops to make almost all of our food and for a main commodity export for the United States. I thought that the farm in the middle of the city was a little confusing because most towns have rules against certain animals within city limits.

Exploration 12 Fresh

  



     I am a wimp I guess because I had a really horrible time watching this movie.  I understand it's importance but I found myself ready to Stop eating all together.  I feel we could treat these animals with a little more respect and I wish those who run the animal farms were in them.  Let them be confined 24 hours a day in crap.  I could not believe my eyes that I have been buying food from these companies.  I do not have much to say and this exploration is my shortest.  Fresh opened my eyes to the cruelty that we humans have.  It's all about the mighty dollar for the companies which run these farms.  I plan to educate myself more and change my eating habits.


                                                      

Exploration 12: Fresh

“Americans fear only one thing: inconvenience.” 

To start Fresh with this quote was a wise choice. I believe we are new breed to humanity, one that will only accept things, be it food or electronics, if it fits into our fast-paced life styles.  If not for processed food, we would have to sit down to a family meal, and God forbid we do such a thing in the 21^st century.

One of the most important ideas, or bits of info, that I thought was good was on monocultures.  When I think of a farm, I don’t think of one dedicated to just chickens or just cows or just whatever. I think back to my grandpa Prater’s farm and apple orchard where he had chickens, cows, and horses all living together while the main source of income was the corn crop and apples. Of course, we see these monoculture farms everywhere. A pig farm near Marion (that I drive always past while holding my breath) is near the Killdeer Plains. Like the documentary pointed out, this farm smells foul.  

 

Now grant it, no farm smells like peaches, but this one example of a monoculture farm wins the ribbon for stink. If something smells that bad, one can only imagine the conditions in which the animals have to live. To walk in a confined space (if it’s even possible to move), in their own waste, possibly among dead animals is a sickening thought. These animals are not cared about because they are just money. Of course not all animals can be treated like Kobe cows, but they do deserve better than these filthy “farms”.

One area of interest that I would do more research on would be on pesticides. What exactly are the crop dusters putting on the crops? We know the animals are pumped with medications, so would that also be the case for plants?

 

Truth be told, after watching this, Fresh has really made me wonder about what is actually healthy.