Exp 4 Rachel Nicodemus

The most important evidence offered, in my opinion were all the benefits of farming and raising animals "the old way". The documentary talks about how people need to understand animals and plants, and respect them, in order to produce them correctly. People interviewed in the film say things like "Take care of your grass and feed and it will take care of the animals" (Fresh). People after industrialization, started to believe that many different pesticides and antibiotics were necessary, but in fact they only became necessary when people made it a necessity, mainly as a result from too much mono culture. If I were to review the film I would focus on facts, and how valid they were in this documentary. Some strengths would definitely be that it draws ones attention, emotionally but also it just makes you think... a lot. It makes you think about how things got this way and what could fix it and even things like "what do I eat on a regular basis?"

In the film they talk about how it is a recently proven fact that we do not need big industrialized farms to "feed the world" in fact, doing it the natural way it could feed the world, and feed it better. During the film I was really wandering how many people have turned away from the big industrialized farms and went back to the "old way" of things. That question led me to some other shocking facts like that farmers spend around $4.1 billion dollars on pesticides annually. Also I found that the top major crops in America are corn and soybeans, planted on around 157.8 million acres. That's more than all of the acreage (117.4 million) Americas other top crops like hay, wheat, cotton. rice, and sorghum (grain) are planted on. Reading these facts, and man more, I came to a conclusion that America still has a long way to work, basically backward, in order to fix these many issues of pesticide and antibiotic use and the practices of mono culture all over out country.

(http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/croppesticideuse.html)