1. I read pages 158-217, chapters 10 thru 14
2. Most of the chapters I read had to do with organic farming, and how it can help our economy and environment. It explains the corruption of multinational corporate giants, and how their use of "organic" is misleading. Towards the end, it briefly goes into how damage to other parts of the world, affects every OTHER part of the world.
3. I learned that whatever consumers demand, is what we get! By going to the grocery stores and purchasing organic products, we are voicing what we prefer, which in turn will lower the price as more and more of organic is offered. If businesses start noticing that certain products are not selling, they will stop selling them and give the consumers what the want.
By organically farming, we can actually help the global warming issue, by reducing fossil fuel use. Organic farming uses 30% less fossil fuels than industrial and monoculture agriculture. An issue that has risen from a new motive to organically farm, is the multinational corporate giants, also known as organic factory farms. Though they are MUCH better than the industrial corporations, they are still forgetting about crop diversity, are taking over farmlands and burning many fossil fuels. These large-scale industrial organic farms and the small-scale sustainable farms are compared like shallow organic and deep organic are. Shallow organic is familiarity, limited selection, and sameness, while deep organic is committed to biodiversity, rotation of animals and plants, and replenished/respected water sources.
With our increasingly growing population, it is hard to keep up with the food demands. Forests and traditional farmlands are being destroyed to make room for more crops. This is the wrong way to go at this, because the soil needed to grow the food is being ruined and washed away. We are decreasing the amount of land able to grow, and the food that we do grow is not even being distributed properly. While some are suffering from starvation, others are dealing with obesity. This is an ongoing chain that will lead us nowhere.
4. We need to stop supporting these huge corporations that are only worsening our chances survival. We are ruining our nutrient-rich soil for growing crops, and in the doing we are consuming more than our earth can provide. Organic farming needs to be taken very seriously, because it will soon effect every single one of us, as it already has begun to do so.
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- I am a Junior at the University of Minnesota Duluth. I love love LOVE the crisp smell that Fall brings, but also need the vitamin D that summer brings. I thoroughly enjoy photography and watching movies. To anyone that likes the outdoors, I'm sure we will get along quite well-- I dig fresh air :) I have a cat named Kozmo, who is quite crazy, and If it were more convenient at this time in my life, i'd have a dog as well. As you might conclude, I am an animal junky.
It is shocking how things we do here affect people in China. Or things that occur in England can affect people in Australia. Somebody somewhere is getting the short end of the stick. Since we never see that, we just keep abusing our environment. I agree with you that we need to stop supporting huge corporations. Small steps in changing the way we live and becoming less dependent on these corporations will be beneficial in the long run.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be awesome if we could have the power to abolish those evil corporations, like Tyson meat? It's sad how things are working out right now, all these poor organic family farms are at the bottom and the worthless industrial farms are at the top, where they don't belong.
ReplyDeleteFrustrating isn't it? I think it's been said a few times in class now, "Why can't we just let nature do what it was intended to do?!"
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your book. I was very moved by the movie we watched, it sounds very similar. I think that more people should read this book and see the movie, it's very eye opening.
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