Lamb Farming By Colette Kessler Summary

American agriculture can produce more food on less land and at cheaper cost than any other nation. Did anyone ever wonder why or how? The documentary Food Inc., produced by Robert Kenner, is designed to put the spotlight on the unsafe preparation of food products, the inhuman treatment of animals being used, and the unethical treatment of workers in corporate farming. Robert Kenner uses multiple rhetorical analysis to get his aspect across to his viewers. Throughout the movie, there are several claims to appeal of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to uncover the true secrets of the American food during its journey to the table.

Do you control your technology, or does it control you? Written in 2002, M.T. Anderson’s Feed shows the world as a technology based society much like the one we live in today. The characters in this book use it an internet like service called the feed to communicate with each other, buy things, and even go to school. The feed in the story not only serves as the main point of conflict, but also symbolizes Anderson’s fear of the future in an age where technology is on the rise.

Over time everything falls apart. Everything starts to fade away into nothingness. Regardless of its magnitude or importance it all fades away. In Thane Rosenbaum’s The Cattle Car Complex, the author says, “The Holocaust fades like a painting exposed to too much sun.” (Rosenbaum, 5). He is showing that even something of the sheer magnitude of the Holocaust loses importance and significance and becomes obsolete. Nothing can last forever. Eventually everything reaches a point where it becomes forgotten and has escaped every tiny crevice of every living mind. By this point the world will have long forgotten and become utterly devoid of any trace of what has happened. Even something as horrific as the Holocaust will fall victim to this curse.

Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American community in California 1919-1982 by Valerie J. Matsumoto presents a close and in-depth study of social and culture history of Cortez, a small agricultural settlement located in San Joaquin valley in California. Divided into six chapter, the book is based primarily on the oral interviews responses from eighty three members of Issei, Nisei, and Sansei generations. However, many information are also obtained from the local newspapers, community records, and World War II concentration camp publications.

Production-based farming has provided small communities a new effective way of farming; however, this type of farming has created more issues than solutions. In "Renewing Husbandry," Wendell Berry discusses the way communities have lost the practice of husbandry in farming to production-based farming. Also, he depicts the side effects production-based farming has on the small communities by demonstrating the loss of connection the farmers now have with the land and community they provide for. Production-based farming destroys the unity of small communities.

The first introduction in the film is multiple images of farms, and agriculture of all kinds. Then the author quickly states that farms do not look like they use to. The message, and start of this film is to inform the viewer about the changes in agriculture, and present ideas about where our food actually comes from. The purpose of the film is to introduce to consumers the risk of eating foods that are owned by large corporations. This film addresses issues with large corporations owning all food sources, treatment of animals, and food-borne illnesses.

Kylee Kohls, a product of Minnesota farmers pursues a career to insure the education about “Farm to Fork.”

No till farming uses double-disc openers to cut out the last crop planted and dropping the new seed in its place. This farming technique does not disturb the soil as much as normal tilling. Many soil conservationists argue that soil tillage destroys the aggregation and microorganism of the soil. This in later terms reduces the sustainability of our food production and reduces the intake of water by the crop. No till farming benefits all farmers when used with cover crop, crop rotation or windbreaks.

No till farming by definition is simply “a system for planting crops without plowing, using herbicides to control weeds and resulting in reduced soil erosion and the preservation of soil nutrients” (1). “In no-till agriculture, the farmer uses a disk or chisel plow to prepare the field for seeding” (3). The plows create a big enough furrow for the seeds to be injected into the ground (3). “Plowing and tillage are major sources of erosion around the world” (2). Plowing and tillage “were key factors behind the Dust Bowl in the 1930s” (2). According to Brad Plumer of The Washington Post says “churning up all that soil can release a significant amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, helping to warm the planet” (2). Also according to Plumer

Recently in America, there has been a decrease in family farming; according to article “The Disappearing Family Farm”, since the 1930’s there are roughly 5 Million fewer family farms in America, and out of the 2 million remaining, only 565,000 are family operated. (USDA, 2017). The drastic decrease in family farming has begun to ignite questions and debate within the American population; why this trend is occurring. The first official reason is the new laws implemented by our government have made it insufficiently harder to build a profit causing many farms to shut down.

Even years later, survival on the land was difficult and the ranchers had to work at it every day. To prevent other cattlemen from stealing cattle form their herd’s Texan pioneers made barons for cattle. At Theodore Roosevelt’s National Memorial Park they sustained a herd of Buffalos; this was to conclude the extensive herds on the Plains (Ferris 45, 41). In the capital there was around four cents per reductions (Smart 142). In the mid-1970’s many of the land movement commenced which lead to more than five million cares national from advancements. Many groups had a budget for what they were going to spend, the grass banks had a funded that was granted and they received $160,000 (White 60, 119). Sheep rearing as well as farming itself were quite rewarding in this time and area. The running of the sheep and farm life had a very good living for heritage. Christopher Dyer says 20% at lowest was the profits that Stable’s received (Epstein 345). Before World War II many of the farms of family’s had flocks of chickens to pay the bills (Halberstadt 53). There were many problems that were in their way which they had to face. Many groups got grants from different developments which helped with paying off their gambling problems. Many of the acres were getting developed by houses and many buildings to form cities (White 78, 59). When deciding where you will hold your cattle the operation consists of finding natural boundaries such as woods and find steams which will provide food,

Farms Owner, Joel Salatin, regards society's continuous demand of specific wants from grown food, "fatter and cheaper" chickens and meat from cows, but they're not too eager in knowing what goes in those animals to achieve the demand. While Salatin uses some logos, providing information facts about the process the food industry goes through in order to achieve food companies' standards, Salatin makes better use of ethos as he provides us the portrayal of cows consuming self-sufficient grass; their manure goes to the grass and they eat the grass. He completes his ethos statements by providing a USDA reference, when USDA threatened to shut them down because of the unsanitary-open air shelter they're using to process chickens.

Peter Huttinger is the Director of Community Gardening at Turner Farm, a CSA situated in Indian Hill, Ohio. Turner Farm promotes “connections between people of all ages and the land that feeds them, in body, mind and spirit…” At most CSA's the consumer pays a subscription and is given a share of the harvest. Turner Farm employs a “Work-Share” model where the consumer not only invests monetarily in the land but also two hours of labor weekly to secure their share of the bounty.

After the visit to "Wayne Bradley's" farm, Peter Singer and Jim Mason share some very important information on the experience with farming. Singer and Mason together examine negative impacts that individual Americans food choices have upon farmers, they believe should be the basis of dietary basics. The negative effects of much agriculture on animals, human health, and our environment as they have little faith that the American government will actually take the initiative to force the food industry to change without a lot of pressure, with this being said consumers, such as Mr. Bradley, force for reformed market behavior through demand for the food product, animals. Singer and Mason spend considerable time at Mr. Bradley farm to expose the

Meanwhile, Conventional tillage practices is another practice which was once embraced to be sustainable to meet world food production due to growing population, but later result in significant losses of soil organic matter (SOM),