Farmers

A lot of the reading material and talks in class on how our food is made some what pointed the blame on the framers. I am writing this to try and change your mind on that. I come from a farming family where one of my uncles owns a hog farm and another cattle farmer and both harvest crops. Everyone works together to get the job done.

Crops: The movie that we watched in class it showed how framers are being forced how of growing their own crops and can only grow the big seed companies seeds. This is truly happening for the soul fact that after one person buys the genetically engineered crops plants them if the framer next to them plants the same crop both fields will cross pollination and after that has happened the company can sue the framer next door and make them only buy, plant, and grow their seeds until everyone has no choose but to follow. Now on the other side the genetically engineered crops brings a lot of good. The U.S. has been able to feed the world over with the fact the crops can grow bigger, bear more fruit or crops. With out this many people would die of hunger.

Meat: Yes we have genetically engineered animals to grow lager faster, but its all on us as the consumer farmers have just been trying to meet the demand. If we wish to change this we need to have better health codes that have to be enforced.

So to sum up its not the farmers fault the people demand has made them change how they do their jobs. Yes their has been good to come out of it but it does not out way all the negative that needs to be fixed. Know where your food comes from, buying from your local butcher/ farmer markets, and demanding that the government cleans up their act and gives power back to the people who are suppose to protect us.