Food, Inc. is a documentary about the people who work in the food industry, specifically those who work on farms. The film documents the farmers' day-to-day life as food producers. They also include how some of the farmers feel about large companies taking hold of more and more of the food that is distributed to the public. A small group of people are interviewed about their own perspectives on their own unique situations. For this blog, I will be talking about one person in the film that really stood out to me, not only as a farmer but as a human being. Will Allen is an urban farmer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who is shown touring and informing people in his community about the importance of organic food.
The first time Will Allen appears, he tells you exactly what his goal is. The reason why he is doing what he is doing is to change the existing food systems. By attending, he starts by making sure everyone has access to healthy foods. Throughout the tour, his passion shines through the screen, telling us that he genuinely cares about how people live and wants them to have access to nutritious food. Also, during the tour, we get to see his farm, which is only 3 acres, and we get to see how he is really smart about how everything can coexist with each other. The thing that really surprised me was how he doesn't throw anything away. Everything has its use on his farm, even waste. His waste was used to feed the worms on his farm, which you can say is the foundation of his farm.
I feel people don't seem to care anymore about organic food since it can be expensive in some cases. Large American businesses have a good job of keeping us from seeing the bigger picture. From how they treat their animals to what they put inside them to make them bigger than what nature intended them to be. All of these elements are what a lot of people don't see. To be honest, many people just ignore it because, at the end of the day, what can they do? Are they willing to spend more just to eat the same food? Are they going to go out of their way to protest? Many Americans just don't have the time or the energy to deal with stuff like that. That's how these major companies are still around. We see them as being too big to take down. It's just the way it is. I'm not here to preach about how to eat healthy because, at the end of the day, you don't know me. You're not going to do what I tell you to do. What matters is how you go about it.
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