#5 Fresh
The food that fills your fridge and pantry, where is it from? How was it grown? Does it matter? Why should we care?
Fresh is an independent documentary about our farmers in the United States. It's all about food and the systems that grow it. The farmers are either sustainable or conventional. The sustainable farmers follow natures circle. The cows graze, drop manure, chickens follow, and all of this is to keep the animals and the earth healthy. The conventional farmers are focused on the quantity, not the quality. They will cover the crops in pesticide and fill the animals with antibiotics, just to keep production high. In the end, their crops are still destroyed by insects that adapt. The animals are deteriorating from the strains of indestructible bacteria.
This film is very eye opening when you see clips of how the food industry treats animals. Chickens squeezed in crates, on top of chickens suffocating in crates, on top of more chickens miserable in crates. Pigs getting their tails cut off so they aren't nipped by another pig in tiny confinement. Then it cuts, to these happy cows who graze healthy green grass and not dry, brown grain. Chickens that are appreciated and told good morning when they come out of the coop.
While watching the movie, you see the disgusting process of how the dead, chicken carcass is being skinned. Then it's tossed on a conveyer belt to be delivered to some grocery store, then straight onto your dinner table. Should you care when you're eating tortured and unhappy meat?
Fresh wants to speak to consumers. People who eat food! All food like veggies, cheese, honey, beef, chicken, pork, etc. Everyone eats, everyone eats to live, to be healthy, even happy. This film was so impactful and shows the reality of the food we eat. Things like why it's cheap, tastes, and looks different than what these organic farmers are producing.
If consumers don't start picking a side, there will never be a change. The farmers can only do so much if there are no people supporting them in their efforts. Us as Americans need to start caring more about food. We need to support local farmers and go to farmers markets on the weekend to take advantage of these farmers, who bring their food to your neighborhood. Let's be good to the environment, by being good to our community.
Movie poster for Fresh
Fresh is an independent documentary about our farmers in the United States. It's all about food and the systems that grow it. The farmers are either sustainable or conventional. The sustainable farmers follow natures circle. The cows graze, drop manure, chickens follow, and all of this is to keep the animals and the earth healthy. The conventional farmers are focused on the quantity, not the quality. They will cover the crops in pesticide and fill the animals with antibiotics, just to keep production high. In the end, their crops are still destroyed by insects that adapt. The animals are deteriorating from the strains of indestructible bacteria.
This film is very eye opening when you see clips of how the food industry treats animals. Chickens squeezed in crates, on top of chickens suffocating in crates, on top of more chickens miserable in crates. Pigs getting their tails cut off so they aren't nipped by another pig in tiny confinement. Then it cuts, to these happy cows who graze healthy green grass and not dry, brown grain. Chickens that are appreciated and told good morning when they come out of the coop.
Two happy cows that were grazing in Fresh
While watching the movie, you see the disgusting process of how the dead, chicken carcass is being skinned. Then it's tossed on a conveyer belt to be delivered to some grocery store, then straight onto your dinner table. Should you care when you're eating tortured and unhappy meat?
Fresh wants to speak to consumers. People who eat food! All food like veggies, cheese, honey, beef, chicken, pork, etc. Everyone eats, everyone eats to live, to be healthy, even happy. This film was so impactful and shows the reality of the food we eat. Things like why it's cheap, tastes, and looks different than what these organic farmers are producing.
Farmer's greenhouse that's featured in Fresh
If consumers don't start picking a side, there will never be a change. The farmers can only do so much if there are no people supporting them in their efforts. Us as Americans need to start caring more about food. We need to support local farmers and go to farmers markets on the weekend to take advantage of these farmers, who bring their food to your neighborhood. Let's be good to the environment, by being good to our community.
I think you're right, we need to start caring more about our food. We need to care about what kind of food we are eating now but also about the kind of food we are growing for the future.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. If we don't start making a change in the food industry, then there will no changes to the food we are consuming.
ReplyDelete"We are voting with our dollar . Empowering about the food issue . A decision we can make now to change the future." -- fresh
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ReplyDeleteAs evidenced by the engaged comments of your peers, you are on the right track with this blog.
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