Entry #7: Fresh.

 Fresh 

Have you ever considered what you put in your mouth when you eat? The documentary "Fresh" will make you think twice about the "healthy" stuff that you consume. "Fresh" focuses on offering us an alternative viewpoint on how food is made and grown to be distributed to your local fast food companies or grocery store that supplies everyone around you. The documentary challenges viewers to rethink their dietary choices while examining why they can cause an unhealthy environment for anyone around us. The film persuades its viewers to dive deeper into why these issues may affect our society. 

Factory Farming: What It Is and Why It's a Problem

"Fresh" targets everyone as it can affect their diets and make them rethink why they shouldn't be eating this. The goal of the film was to inform viewers about the true source of their food by examining the food industry. The film focuses on a small local farm and its methods of production management. You can see that the livestock is typically placed in small spaces where illnesses can spread easily among them. To prevent their livestock start storming with diseases, farmers constantly give antibiotics to cure the animal's health but don't realize the damage that this causes to the consumer. These antibiotics when eaten by a human can cause that person to feel extremely ill making the meat not consumable.

Farmer in the film have adapted new ways that they could fix this and give the consumer something good to consume. their problem was that they wanted more cheap stuff without actually looking at the consequences. All their food becoming inedible because it's filled with pesticide and diseases. Will Allen actually found a way to get rid of all this and this method was fixing the soil and not adding any pesticide. His method is worms to break down the waste to have rich soil to grow variety of micro-green in an urban agriculture. 

Across Midwest Farm Fields, Pesticide Exposure Is Tracked Unevenly or Not at All | Nebraska Public Media

Overall these big farms with loads of livestock or planting fields didn't think of the effect that the addition of antibiotics or other formulas would have on the consumer. They did this to continue their farms and get money to hand out cheap food. People like Will Allen wanted a change and he got it by discovering new ways to grow healthy food, this change will take time as not all big companies are willing to change. So before eating your meal think about all the things that happened to make your food possible. 

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