If I were to review the film, I would have to re-watch it to pick a finer subject to focus on. For the moment I'll choose externalize costs of "cheap" food. What costs are being forward on nature as
well as the consumed and consumers. The strength of the film is the heart and mind of the film. These people live what they say. A weakness is the low amount of emotion shown, beyond obvious fear on the Fox's account. Don't take me wrong, I'm not looking for tears.
I relate most to the film that organic or non antibiotic grown food and meat is the best for us in general. Why would I say this? I know how I feel after eating certain type of foods, processed and unprocessed. I also know that my asthma takes more kindly to the unprocessed way.
I wanted to explore the commentary made by Joel Saltone from the documentary "Fresh"; that by feeding dead cows to living cows we have caused the outbreak of what is known as Mad Cow Disease (AKA bovine spongiform encephalopathy). I know that humans, if cannibalistic, run the risk of catching a form of prion disease mainly due to eating brain tissue. My thoughts are that if any particular flesh type was consuming it's own flesh type then prions would most likely be present and harmful. Or at the very least found in a few of the population. My findings found the original comment to be true. Backed up by research done by the government organization FDA and by Independent research as well there are quite a few websites dedicated to the subject. Some with scary statistics of cases found in the UK in their herds. One of the scarier notes is that the prion is not noticed by the organism, and it doesn't matter what the species is, as being foreign or abnormal making it impossible to fight off the disease.
These are my resources:
http://www.cdc.gov/prions/
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/mad_cow_disease_and_variant_creutzfeldt-jakob/article_em.htm
http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/AnimalHealthLiteracy/ucm136222.htm
Cow with Mad Cow Disease
That is very interesting information you found out about Mad Cow Disease I didn't even know that happened and was a thing until this movie.
ReplyDeleteI was really interested in the data you had on the Mad Cow Disease. I did not realize that it was caused by consuming brain tissue. My question about this is that if brain tissue wasn't consumed, could a cow still contract Mad Cow Disease?
ReplyDeleteIt's fascinating how these "farmers" fed dead cows to living cows. You are right about the cannibal aspect to it. I found this to be absolutely disgusting and inhumane. Cows are herbivorous and should not be fed meat in the first place, yet alone meat from dead cows.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your concept of the industry being changed with the old fashion way of gardening, I think we need to go back to that kind of farming, It's disgusting what these farmers are feeding their animals and then later turning into food and feeding us. I think something needs to be done about it. Also I was very interested in your share of Mad Cow Disease!
ReplyDeleteI never even heard of Mad Cows disease. I do not agree with how the farmers are treating the animals. I do not think that they should be confined to such tight space. I think its very cruel that feed cows their own species.
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