Posted by Loren MN on January 28, 2010 at 13:30:36 from (64.65.174.118):
In Reply to: O/T Movie: Food Inc. posted by MF1155 on January 28, 2010 at 07:22:15:
Wife and I watched the movie earlier this week, after a coworker lent me the dvd to watch. Since we sell our beef privately by the 1/4 & 1/2 as naturally raised, our coworkers are excited more than ever to buy our beef after watching it. So for us, the movie's message helps our farm. Wife's comment after the movie was we should plant the whole farm in grass/alfalfa and go grass fed. I'm not ready to do that yet, but at least she's more interested in the operation now.
I really don't have a problem with the granola eaters taking a swing at the big ag companies. If the movie is full of lies, then I would like to see someone call them out on the specifics, not just write it off as so much BS. The demand for $1 hamburgers, etc. has driven the industry to mass produce products that honestly aren't much better than dog food. As long as the demand is there, there will always be a push by the Cargills, tysons, etc. to further cut costs, meaning the small farmers aren't benefiting.
If the demand for fast food and the overly-processed crap were to decrease because of consumer awareness, it would be replaced by better meat that small farmers can compete with. Farmers would adjust to the market shift, and overall I think it would be a positive turn for most of us. You could just as easily sell your finished steers to a smaller slaughterhouse than to a big corporation, if the industry were to head that way. People still need to eat, and we'll still provide the food, but maybe the system does need a change, and the food prices may need to reflect that. Look at the dairy industry. The big producers can provide enough milk to keep the prices low enough for the consumer, but most of the smaller farms cannot compete and are driven out.
I also don't have a problem with people daring to question the practices of chemical farming and seed genetics. Is it practical for farmers to continue to soak the ground with herbicide, pesticide, & fertilizer until the end of time? Should be abandon crop diversity in favor of everyone planting RR corn & beans, then find out one day that disease wipes out all of the crops? There are a lot of questions we need to ask ourselves and soulseaching that needs to be done, but it's easier to bury our heads in the sand and continue on our path. Gotta do what you have to to make money, right?
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