Letter to the President
Pollan’s proposals are not out of
the reach of what we can do and it would help with our current crisis. His idea
of bring America back to the way farming used to be when we did not have to use
herb killers and pesticides: had to feed cows corn so they will get bigger
faster. He proposes that we bring livestock back to the farm and use more human
and animal power than mechanical power that uses oil. That is a great idea even
though that would bring food prices up but it would give better quality and
better variety back into the stores. Plants and the environment would be much
healthier and our carbon footprint would be reduced tenfold. Our culture needs
to wake up and see what they are eating so they know to change because right
now everybody does not know what they are consuming or do not care enough to. The
current way we are doing things is harming mother earth and needs to be
changed. Animal cruelty is not right and we should not continue to take advantage
of defenseless animals to make a buck, we as humans should take care of what
feeds us. We need to stop passing the buck and make sure the buck stops here,
so that in the future we do not have to worry about more pressing issues like
fast spreading diseases and diseases that have no cure because they built up an
immunity to antibiotics. We as humans need to return to what was in place
before the industrialization of “farming” if we can even call it that now. As
Pollan is saying we need to get back to our roots and actually give the people
what they need.
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