Movie Review: Fresh - The Alternative Consumer

The yearly summer flu season has started and there may be no better way to pass the time stuck indoors then educating yourself on the things you eat everyday and agribusiness in America. If you?re sick in bed, or just looking to escape the hot summer sun I fully recommend catching the movie ?Fresh?. This film is available on iTunes and is a great look at how the farming business works. Fresh is an inspiring tale of farmers who have successfully created fully organic and free-range farms. The film details the importance of mimicking nature in farming methods to eliminate the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. The documentary examines how rotating animals and crops to different parts of the land allows farmers to fertilize their soil in a more natural manner. Additionally, lessening the reliance on mono-cultures, or only growing one crop, will make our food supply much more stable. Growing only one type of crop or only raising one animal makes these farmers vulnerable if disease hits and kills off an entire crop or species. By diversifying, farmers gain the ability to raise their crops and livestock in a way that is much more natural and much safer to ultimately eat.

Fresh outlines the modes of which livestock are raised in the most popular industrialized farms, and contrasts this with the organic and free-range approach. Seeing how baby chicks are treated in the industrialized farms would make an animal activist of even the most enthusiastic of carnivores. The organically grown chickens are hormone and antibiotic free, and they eat what chickens naturally eat. This is a stark contrast from the more industrialized farms where beaks and claws are chopped off and chickens are fed cocktails of drugs hidden inside of their processed corn feed. After watching Fresh, I am even more enthusiastic about buying organic and supporting local farms. This type of agriculture is so much more sustainable and natural, and therefore healthier for both the consumer and environment.

Source: http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2012/06/28/movie-review-fresh/

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