Entry #7: Fresh, an Insight to Food

 

Have you ever thought about the origin of what we eat at restaurants, fast food chains, and at home? Fresh, a film about the background of the cruel and unsafe methods of how farms produce our food, and the possible solutions people can make. 

Featuring people who are like us (people who love to eat), it targets regular people to inform them of how our food is being treated and produced. Some of those ways are through shock value as exhibited in the film. In the beginning, the chickens are shown being thrown to the ground from the baskets they were held in, along with an audible thud from the impact. This shows the inhumane treatment livestock are victims of in the proceeds of efficiency.

The film also features the vast amounts of pesticides used on crops. Monocultures are large fields of one specific plant being grown. Farmer George Naylor actually states that there are so many weeds and bugs that decide to grow in these fields, that it is just necessary to spray the fields to preserve their crops.

    I have thought of how our food ends up on tables before, but after this film, it has really confirmed my thinking and really helped me see how we all eat without giving thought. I also thought that the farmer, Will Allen, teaching people how growing fresh and the tricks to it was another impactful scene. By doing so, it displays that even us regular people can grow our own natural and healthy foods. Though we may not like the way our food is brought to us on a large-scale, it is inconvenience which stops us from putting in the extra work to maintain our own sources of local, healthy food.