Keolas's Daily Blogs

  Before watching Food Inc. , I thought I had a decent idea of where our food came from but wow, this film really opened my eyes. If you haven’t seen it yet, Food, Inc. is a documentary that dives deep into the industrial food system in America. It uncovers how large most of the food production process from what’s grown on farms to what ends up on our grocery store shelves. It also looks at the hidden cost of cheap food the treatment of animals, the health risks to consumers, and the effects on farmers, workers, and the environment. One of the most powerful parts of the film is seeing how animals are treated in factory farms. I expected it to be bad, but actually watching the footage was heartbreaking. Chickens packed so tightly they can't move, cows standing knee deep in their own waste, pigs living in total waste it was hard to watch. And what’s even more disturbing is how normal for this process has become, all for the sake of fast and cheap meat. But the film isn’t just about...

  After watching Fresh , I honestly started thinking way more about where my food actually comes from. Like yeah, I knew processed food wasn’t great, but I didn’t realize how deep the system goes how messed up it is for farmers, animals, and even the environment. I hadn’t really questioned it much before, but this film definitely got me thinking. The purpose of Fresh seems to be to wake people up to show that our food system is broken, but that there are also better ways to do things. It’s trying to inspire change, not just depress people. The audience feels like regular folks who might not know all this stuff but would care if they did people like us, basically.  The tone is serious but hopeful, which I liked. It’s not just doom and gloom it shows farmers and communities doing things right, which makes you feel like change is possible. One part that stood out to me was seeing how big food companies have so much control, and how hard it is for small farmers to survive. That w...