Assigned Entry #3: Mary Shelley's Frankenfood...

      So for this entry our instructor had us first watch the movie Food Inc. If you haven't seen it, Food Inc. is a documentary showing off the horrors of what big business in the ways of food are like. It shows the blight of farmers around the country and how multi-national corporations are ruining food in the US. We were later told to write our response of watching this movie. I find that this new eraa of food is quite disgusting actually.

 

 

 

      After seeing footage after footage of animals living in squalor and misery,  some even knee deep in their own feces, I just couldn't help but cringe. Since then, I feverishly scoured the internet looking at foods I should avoid, foods I should eat, and places to shop for all of it. Since I noticed the closest Whole Foods Market was an adventure's length to Scottsdale, I decided that the best thing I could do was Sprouts as well as attempt to grow my own garden out back.

 



 

 

 

      Since then, I've mulled over why certain companies decide that destroying food, experimenting on it, and creating something to resemble food, is the best option. In reality,  it's quite disgusting. Sometimes, I come to think that these large companies (knowing full well that they're only out there for profit) are glad to be hurting people. There are simple, clean alternatives to such destructive elements such as washing chickens with Ammonia (which in fact, is dangerous). Why, in their minds, would they use something that makes up one of the most dangerous parts of Venus' atmosphere to address a food safety issue? It's absurd!

 

 

In closing, buy local, buy green, buy smart.

 

 

Tonight's comment question: Is there a food you grew up with eating that you never will touch again?