#6 Monsanto Response

Assignment #6 

Many of the articles we have read for class have affected me, but this particular topic really hit home. My family owns a farm and farm that runs on the traditional farming ways. We raise cows from the time they were born and sell them at a traditional stock house for money, it’s how the farm survives and what puts food on the table. I have personally watched the movie Food Inc., and truthfully it made me sick. When watching the clips from this website it makes me feel the same way. Why does something that once ran traditionally have to be industrialized like everything else? If it once worked perfect the way it was why do you have to change it, not everything has to be changed. Traditional farmers like the one’s I have grown up with work from dawn to dusk, everyday, rain or shine. They get no sick days, no vacations because it’s how they make a living. For someone to come in and ruin the way of life its traumatic and wrong, no way around it. We are over populating what is supposed to be natural. We are damaging our food for more quantity. Has anyone ever considered that maybe the reason the world is so sick and overweight because of all the chemicals we are putting into our food. Chicken should come out of an egg and take time to become an adult like a child out of a women’s womb. A chicken should be able to walk around and eat normal food, not injected to the point that it sits it’s entire life miserable. I am an animal person, I grew up on a farm, and this may be cliche but animals have feelings too. If you injected a baby to grow rapidly there would be repercussions and lawsuits, so why would you do that to an animal and their babies. This country once survived without certain things, it survived with not enough chicken some months, so why can’t it now? It is wrong to advertise that overproduction and industrialization is a good thing for our world, because honestly its slowly killing us. If you want to live healthy and happy then it’s best to leave things the way they need to be, natural. The overproduction and industrialization of farms is what takes the money and profits of what the little traditional farms survive on. You are putting peoples lives at stake and causing a lot more harm then good. It needs to be stopped and until people prove that this is more harm then good we are all going to continue to hurt the future for our children. So lets’ change it!