11:40 - Reflection on Food-onomics (Food Inc.)

Continuing with my eleventh hour of reflections, I would like to discuss the food cycle discussed in Food Inc. This terrible cycle is brought about by a series of very unfortunate events that lead to a cycle of trying to cut more corners to make food cheaper and quicker in order to outsell your competitors but harming the entire business culture as a whole. I believe that this is both detrimental and necessary for our current economic society. It is detrimental in the fact that it is a spiral of downward quality and coinciding cost. The quality is terrible to consume and worse for our environment and culture. However it is necessary to have the declining cost due to the increased hardships on our society. Plus all of these factors are causeing technology to progress much much faster than was initially anticipated. This is good for the fact that the quality is actually starting to improve with the increased demand on organic products. This means that we can actually go back and create higher quality foods in the cheaper model that is currently being designed. It is an interesting thought that the rapidly decreasing quality toward rations and then could cause a quality of food we have never imagined. Only time will tell.