Entry #5: Fresh

Watching a documentary like Fresh, which is about farmers talking and sharing their thoughts about industrialized farming, how it not only hurts the animals and Earth, but it puts an impact on daily consumption of food, widens my knowledge and has me thinking about more than just how cheap produce products are but how hard these farmers work to provided of all of United States.

It wasn't after the movie that I had felt something. It was during the entire movie that  made me feel this tighting in my chest and frustrated as to why would big companies do such a thing to animals? And to the consumer? Why would consumer demand such cheap produce?  I was shocked to find that farmers don't get the amount paid for their products. I continued to absorbed the information that was given by all the educated farmers.

The movie Fresh was educating consumers and beginner farmers of the lasted industrialized farming that the big company produce for them. Letting them know that here is a problem and it needs to be fixed or soon there wouldn't be any farmers left to help produce naturally produce products and change the way we should consume the food we eat.

The documentary though out was very interesting, There are scenes that I still remember and made a huge impact on me.

One was when One of the farmers named Joel Salatin, was educating the viewers that in order to keep the animal in good condition and the land, It all had to start from the grass. Grass plays a main key in farming according to Salatin. Salatin Also continues to explain that animals are made to be in the wild and have plenty of space to run and feed. However, because of the industrialized farming they keep the animals in very close approximation and feeding animals like pigs, chickens, and cows, grains when they are supposed to be feeding on grass and vegetables, because they are herbivorous.
One quote he keep saying was " we have to get the chicken-ness out of the chickens and the pig-ness out of the pigs." Salatin says that because it was said that the company' would feed the pigs and chickens dead remains of  chickens and pigs. So to naturally feed them grass and leftover vegetation then the chicken would be chicken-less and pigs would be pig-less.

After hearing such clams, I felt not only upset and ready to scream at the farmer who had done such a thing. "Why? Why in the world would you do such a thing? I felt sadness, frustration and discus. It's similar to if they would've fed their own children dead remains of human waste. When the animal consume the remains its in their system and in her muscle, then consumer would soon eat them. That exactly what is happening. It not only bad for the consumers body but bad for the animals them selves. They are not meant to eat meat at all their body aren't build that way. 

Other scenes I remember is when they introduced Will Allen. He was an ex basketball player that left the south to pursuit his basketball career. He then married a lady that owned a tiny 3 acre land and decided to farm there. He of course had little space to do it so he created a green house that grew upwards, using as much space as possible. 

Will Allen has the passion to grown produce products as naturally as possible by using produce waste as vegetation for the plants and food. He gives lectures to  travelers and allows them to walk around his garden to better educate them on how to grow plants and that everyone should eat clean. Allen is a very inspirational person, Its great that his is teaching others on how to help better them selves and the land.

This documentary, like others, opened up my ears, eyes and thoughts on how to take on industrial farming, food and how they are produces. It helped me learn new things that I would have never though about. Taking a different look on produce and feeling more grateful that there are people willing to grown such food with care. I work in a grocery store, Fry's, in the produce departments, so I handle all the fruits and vegetables. The next day at work after watching this movie, I looked at the produce differently and appreciated it more. I how now watched the type of produce I had purchased. Like going to food markets, and eating less processed food. It did change my life a little at a time. 

Entry #4: Wall-E

Pixar movie have powerful means throughout the movie and Wall-E is a great example of that. This short clip from the movie Wall-E gave me a very different reaction then the characters had during the short clip. The characters were humans from Earth that were sitting on hover chairs transporting them from one destination to another. The humans were overweight and seemed like they didn't know their surroundings. They only knew what was on the screen in front of them and that products like drinks would be given to them automatically. while riding their hover chairs they had a joy of being connected with their friends, the technology gave them the pampering they want along with, portable food and drinks, change of clothes color and the relaxing scenery. This place was called the Human Dystopia.

However, as the short clip was playing, I noticed that my same reaction was like Wall-Es. I was in disbelief that the human society let themselves be over ruled but technology and that they have gotten over weight. I believe that exercise is everything and that people should have independence. This clip mad me feel like I was watching a horror film. I felt ashamed and embarrassed, even though its fiction, the feeling of watching it was to real that I would like to change my ways with technology and go for a run.

This clip does resonates with me because there are times when I watch television or use my phone that I don't  realize my surrounding and fall into the deeps of YouTube. So, I could be sitting on the couch in my living room then once I put my phone down I would end up laying on my bed. Just like the woman character in Wall-E, when he disconnected her monitor while she was siting in her chair in the train to transport her somewhere different,  she looked around her surrounding and didn't realize what was going on.

In continuation to that, this movie should also resonate with everyone else that use technology on a daily basis. I am not expert when it comes to technology, however I grew up with four older brothers so I know what happens to them when they are using some sort of technology they become zombies. Once they get into their video games, for instance, they sit there yelling at the television screen in their own little world. They wont answer to you at all and what seems like being controlled by technology, Because once again it controls the way they react, will they get angry?sad? happy? scream with excitement? Can't tell until the video game continues to play. Or , again, don't realize their surrounding.

But the most irritating one for me is that the humans rely on technology to much for everything. We rely on it with knowledge, Of course the internet was a great success on giving us new information everyday, however we also need to have self knowledge of the world. We have to fill information in out heads not our fingers. Get out and explore. But we are human we love to sit around on our phones, tv, and video games just like the human characters in Wall-E.

This movie was very educational and will give me a different look on technology and with looking after my health, because they gave me quite a scare.

Entry #3: I should go to the hospital now....

Technology. It creates new inventions from robots to airplanes or glasses to putting a chip in someone's body to help monitor their blood and heart. This chip was invented but Swiss researchers that had an idea to help spread new inventions throughout  healthcare. They created a tiny chip that will be placed under the patient's skin to analyze blood from the body and send test results instantaneous. New and improved technology is continuously being brought up or invented in the health care and this is another successful idea that will help the people around the world.

"It will allow direct and continuous monitoring based on a patient's individual tolerance, and not on age and weight charts or weekly blood tests,"  Giovanni de Micheli, the Swiss team leader. Another scientist, Sandro Carrara, said that the implanted chip could also detect a molecule that is tied in with a heart attack. It can detect it two to three hours before the attack could happen, Having enough time to get a ambulance there to monitor the patient.

Incredible is the only word that I could describe this new piece of technology. However its still on going experiments but hopefully it will be fully complete in the next four years.

To me this is a great idea that should be given to everyone. Its very convenient especially for those who live in the middle of nowhere and can't really be known if they had a heart attack or not. In New Mexico there are a huge amount of land, and because of that everyone lives so far from each other. The cities are at least a two hour drive from where most Native Americans live.

There is a place in New Mexico called Burnham. Its pronounced as Burn- ums. There is where a man lived in the middle of nowhere without and electricity or plumbing. All he had was his house and his farm. So, the ideas of health care was unreachable for him, unless someone took the time to drive all the way to see him but there is that "What if.." factor that if he were to have a medical problem or even a heart attack, how would he get the help that he needs if he is too far and don't have the transportation to get his to the hospital. That's what most elderly Native Americans are suffering from to this day.

This new implant could help the elderly with getting diagnose quickly and getting the medical help needed faster before something more serious happens to them in the middle of nowhere.