Food INC. p 183-218

After reading the section of the book written by Joel Salatin about his farming operation and what his opinions are on the subject of mass factory produced food I found myself leaning more and more towards what he thought on the subject. His farming techniques of grazing animals, letting them forage around as they were naturally supposed to seems much more ethical and "clean" than the mass production of food by large companies. They call his ways unsanitary because the meat he butchers is out in the open air, which I don't believe is true at all. That is mostly because my family as butchered our own cattle, pigs and hunted animals like deer, rabbit, and squirrel for years and I don't know of a single one who has ever been sick from eating any of it. Where just myself personally have gotten food poisoning twice from fast food restaurants. Also another large aspect that the large food producing food companies leave out is all the chemicals and antibiotics they pump into the animals. Then, they never once mention how the animals are kept in buildings knee deep in their own messes, that to me raises the question: which is really "cleaner." Then, as far as Salatin's procedure's for how he raises his animals is a lot more efficient. For example: he grazes the cattle, they digest it then excrete it, then it acts as fertilizer for new grass to grow and the cycle continues. Not once is it swept into water sources is large quantities, nor is it ever pushed aside not being used or are the animals ever living in it. Then, the last part that stuck out to me was how the term unpronounceable ingredients came up multiple times. I agree with that these are problems, and so are most other additives, because who knows what long term effects these things have on the body. I'm in a major concerned with medicine and human physiology which requires a lot of chemistry and when I can't read a third of the ingredients list I get to wondering how can all of this be good for me. I felt how he presented his opinions were very organized and each thought was explained fully, which did not leave many questions.

Another section that stood out to me was the "Questions for a Farmer" section. I felt this was very informative, but at the same time they started to get repetitive. I started to get this feeling during towards the end of the movie also. Yes they were portraying their opinions and information in different ways, but it was the same time the bottom line was the same. Not saying that it was ineffective, both the book and movie changed/is changing my opinions on the food that I put in my body. Just I'm almost to a point that "there is such a thing as kicking a dead horse."

Lastly in response to the "Eating made Simple" section I felt that it was a good part of the book because it gave a nutritionist's/biologist's viewpoint on the subject. I felt this to have more merit to it than if it were written by a spokesperson, writer or anyone directly involved in the matter because their opinions would obviously biased. Another aspect that I liked about this section is that she repeatedly used research to base her hypotheses. She made her statements using tried and true proven scientific facts, not a mere opinion to boost profit or passing ideas that she heard from someone so it has to be true.