Carefully Describe one Point Made in the Film About (or Related To) Technology That You Believe Is Worth Discussing
Autor: 517littlerice • February 25, 2013 • Essay • 888 Words (4 Pages) • 1,303 Views
Prompt: Carefully describe one point made in the film about (or related to) technology that you believe is worth discussing.
Describe any defense of the point that was offered for it in the film (from the filmmaker's perspective). It's best to show how the film is related to the course content from the same week and other weeks. (300 words maximum)
Point: We are looking forward to a healthy diet which is formed in a natural way. It needs to meet the animals’ growth pattern and not become the commodities under the industrialization of agriculture. Defense: Americans love to eat beef, chicken, pork and a variety of vegetables, grains. Actually, they are not truly agricultural products, but low-cost industrial products on the fast and efficient standard production lines. Why did this happen? In the film, each food companies emerged as the implementation of a high degree of industrialization to monopolize the entire food industry. The industry chain has met the growing population’s need for food, but also brought a lot of drawbacks---in order to make the products faster, it breaks the species of animal and plant growth rhythm. Using the technology changes the society, and it brings both positive and negative effects. Like Mesthene said, technology creates a new opportunity and a new problem at the same time. Such as agriculture, livestock were fed by artificial feed, resulting in accelerated growth. Also, without a reasonable and balanced diet, a number of inherent shortcomings appear in animals, and it has caused a number of bacteria. When these bacteria are not completely eliminated by company, the human beings have to suffer these injuries. However, this situation rarely happened in natural foods. High yield crop, genetically modified foods, shorter mature period of animal, how to change the current situation? This is the film aims to do. In the breeding industry, if people stop using corn and antibiotics to fed chickens, ducks, cows, fish, etc., we would not have had the bacteria, and then food would not endanger our health. The movie is trying to wake up the people who do not know the status yet by such examples in the food industry. Our daily food has many problems; food insecurity has resulted in a variety of new diseases. What we need is very simple, just green and healthy, from the natural production.
Prompt: Give two reasons why this point is well taken, or two reasons why it is a bad point that is not well-taken, or one of each reason. (300 words maximum)
Well taken point: In our white paper, we discussed how a person we do not know decided the health insurance
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