Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Seeds of Doubt, The end of food



In the passage, Seeds of Doubt, Vandana Shiva is clearly against the idea of globalization and genetically modified crops. She focuses on how dependent people are on fossil fuel in order to genetically modify these crops. She's also really concerned that the farmers are destroying "This beautiful world" as she mentions early in the passage. Her priority is to preserve the environment and she doesn't want to see it be harmed by such pesticides and cheap use of water. In the other passage, The End of Food. Rob, Rhinehart who is an entrepreneur, stresses that the physical for of food is unnecessary and inefficient. He bought the food in pill form made a drink infused with the essential chemical components that food contains and blended them with water. He felt as if what he did was the most efficient way to survive and that he didn't need real food. This man thought that food was coming to or should be coming to an end and that food needed to be synthetically processed in a form that was efficient unlike, in his opinion, farms. He felt as if farms were inefficient factories. I feel as if he may have stumbled upon something revolutionary but it may go against what a lot of people are used to and the transition could take a while. I also agree with Vandana Shiva about how the environment should be preserved but i agree with Rob even more because if it is efficient; why not use it? 

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