Agriculture Myths And Facts

One of the main concerns surrounding agriculture today is how agricultural influences will affect the society of tomorrow, including the effect of agriculture on adolescents, in addition to the agricultural workforce and its ability to sustain the needs of the global population. The most effective way to study this is through the impact of involvement in the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and agricultural environments and education on students, which Chelsea Rose et al. successfully highlight in their article “The Benefits of FFA Membership as Part of Agricultural Education.” Both Erin and Kayla added to this discussion with valid points brought up in their class presentations, reporting on whether agricultural

To conclude, our current way of agricultural life is not sustainable. The article “What’s for supper” has made me realize that if I hope for a better future for generations to come I should support a locally sourced lifestyle. This article is an eye opener to me and proved to me the importance of supporting locally grown produce. Locally grown produce supports the environment as well as jobs for people in the community. The current system takes a toll on every species on the planet. Humans are overproducing on a massive scale and are wasting close to half of our supplies and

In order to change the way the United States food system is operating at the moment, a change needs to be made in the education that people are receiving about the way their food is produced, manufactured, distributed and consumed. The U.S. food system has become increasingly reliant on mass production factories and multinational retail corporations while local farms and family owned food markets diminish. Economies of scale and opportunity costs represent barriers to change of the current food system because of the many different paths available, each creating different outcomes for consumers, sellers, large corporations and small farms, determining their profit, prices, capital and value. Educating the American people about the benefits of local food production and the downsides of large scale food production, such as nutritional value, disease and safety concerns, and economic advantages, will help to move our food system from “point A” to “point B”.

The film’s purpose was to reveal the secrets of the food production industry, as well as to call for change in the biased policies.

Food Inc. : A Rhetorical Analysis Food Inc., a documentary film produced by Robert Kenner and based on Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation, is designed to inform the American people of the food industry’s sinister side. The film paints the food industry in a more realistic light than the advertised and perceived image of an “Agrarian America.” Food Inc. not only uses compelling images, such as hundreds of baby chickens being raised in spaces no larger than a desk drawer, but also includes the voices and stories of farmers, businessmen and women, government officials, and victims of the food industry. As the film is being played, the audience sees the horrors and immorality of the food industry, feels disgust towards the unethical greed for wealth over safety of customers, shares in the helplessness of oppressed farmers, workers, and animals, finally feeling a sense of hope at the end where the film tells the audience they can vote for safer, better foods with what they decide to buy. Food Inc. effectively intertwines visual elements along with commentary, forging an ominous and foreboding image of the food industry that is furthered by its audio track and expert testimonies, creating a potent warning to the American consumer of the darker side within the food industry. In the opening moments of the film, images of corn and wheat fields spanning acres of land, along with a cattle rancher riding his horse among a magnificent grassy landscape surrounded by trees, are

Food Inc., a documentary on the secrets of the food industry in America, captures it’s audience’s attention by sharing some disturbing information on where their food really comes from. People in America are fooled today by the pictures and advertisements that paint an innocent picture of a farm, tricking consumers into thinking what they’re buying is real, grown food. The food industry has many dirty secrets about it’s food production methods and is scared to reveal any of them because it could put their product sales in jeopardy. The content of this intriguing film compare with chapter 19 of the history textbook in many ways. In chapter 19 of our history books, the topic of awful work conditions and standards are discussed.

Professor Food Inc. is a documentary showing what corporations hide during food processing. Today, farms are being controlled by big corporations. They are being told what to do by these big corporations like Tyson, Smithfield, Monsanto, and more. These corporations regulate farms to give both crops and animals steroids, antibiotics, herbicides/pesticides so that they can grow bigger, faster, and grow to a bigger profit. Monsanto forces the farmers to use their genetically modified bean that withstands pesticide sprayed over crops.

The way we eat food has changed drastically in the past few decades. When I think of the process of how our food is made and produced, I think of a farm with happy animals lying around, eating healthy green grass, with bright blue skies. In the fields growing is sweet smelling fruit picked right when fresh, all in order to be taken to our grocery stores. Most people usually picture our food coming from a farm in this manner; however, this image is far from the truth. The food industry purposely wants us to picture faming this way because they want to hide the reality of how our farms actually look and operate.

The documentary film Food, Inc. provides a critical look at the industrialized nature of our country’s food supply. It explores the relationship between how our food is produced and exposes the horrors and immorality of the food industry. The film highlights different topics regarding the mass production of corn, the treatment of the animals and the workers, the health consequences. food safety issues, and how big corporations have control over the food industry because they oversee everything from the farmer to the supermarket The first section of the film covered how a handful of companies have changed what we eat and how we make our food. Thr whole industrial food system began with fast food in the1930s and the concept of drive in restaurants,

Contrary to what some may believe, there are advantages and progression when it comes to food biotechnology and the genetically modified foods being produced by farmers today. GMO crops allow farmers less toxic pesticides on their fields. In the article Playing God in the Garden, the author discusses his experience of meeting a potato farmer. With further discussion the farmer Danny Forsyth explains how he cannot go out to his field until four or five days after its been sprayed because the toxic chemical including an organophosphate called monitor is a deadly chemical that has been found to cause neurological damage. With the New Leaf Plus which is protected from leafroll virus as well as beetles, he is able to skip a few sprayings at a time

A company known as Monsanto has been terrorizing the farm land for many years. This company in all honesty cares nothing about the environment. When Monsanto first crawled out of the mud, they were strictly making chemicals. The chemicals that Monsanto has created wreaked havoc on the country side of the United States of America. Many towns are still cleaning up the mess from twenty years ago that Monsanto caused. Now Monsanto has G.M. seeds that will not be affected by pesticides. While this is a good idea, the way Monsanto goes about their transactions is terrifying for farmers. Monsanto hires people whom the farmers refer to them as seed police, or the mafia. They scare farmers into buying their seeds and they threaten to take everything from the farmers if they don’t settle with Monsanto. Monsanto has made farmers live in fear, scared that one day the “mafia” would come for them. It is completely messed

thought about going to the meat department of your local grocery store and there is no meat, but

Many varieties of genetically engineered crops have been designed to decrease the need for chemicals, particularly pesticides. Herbicide-tolerant varieties are among the most widely used type of genetically-modified crop, which enables farmers to use a single herbicide to eradicate weeds rather than rely on a cocktail of pesticides and herbicides. Eliminating weeds in this fashion also decreases the need for soil tillage, which can negatively impact soil ecology. (Ford,

So many experts have discounted the results that showed a benefit to the environment on that crop. It is believed that the commercialisation of genetically modified crops could bring some species of plants and animals close to extinction due to the adverse effects that genetically modified farming has on the environment. On the other hand, a farmer involved in the genetically modified trials, Keith Millen who grew the genetically modified oil seed rape, said he had found "a marked increase" in the amount of weeds in his crops and also said there were no residue chemicals on the fields in the last year of the trials (op. cit.).

GM crops are highly disputed amongst scientists, farmers, and environmentalists. The potential of GM crops to improve upon current agricultural methods by increasing agricultural productivity and improving pest resistance has been met by claims that GM crops increase herbicide usage and threaten biodiversity.