The following is the dialogue in the film and my little thinking. The numbers are the time of the dialogue, which is easy to find.
32:00 The mother who lost her son said the following in disappointment:
We put faith in our government to protect us, and we're not being protected at a most basic level. As individuals, we should take a precaution. In general, this sentence is true: only when the country is strong can we have personal happiness. But sometimes to protect ourselves we have to rely on ourselves, on our own thinking and judgment. Those in Taiping 1949 who felt that overloading the ship would be a problem, and those who chose not to board the ship saved themselves.
35:52
The industrial food system is always looking for greater efficiency, but each new step in efficiency leads to problems.
I very much agree with and feel this point. Is modern technological progress really a kind of progress? Or is it accelerating the pace of its demise? This is a question worth thinking about. Mencius has a similar saying: Ingenuity can disturb a person's original mind. This brings me to artificial intelligence. . . Let's not talk about it, it's useless to talk about it, I'm in it, but I can't do anything about it.
If you take feedlot cattle off of their corn diet, give them grass for five days, they will shed 80% of the E.coli in their gut. But of course that's not what the industry does. The industry approach is … when it has a systematic problem like that…is not to go back and see what's wrong with the system, it's to come up some high-tech fixes that allow the system to survive.
My understanding is to cover up the last lie that went wrong with another bigger lie, rather than solving the problem at its root. There will always be a day when this lie cannot be solved. This day may be the collapse of a certain company, the disappearance of a certain industry, the demise of a certain country, the decline of a certain civilization, and even the extinction of the entire human race...
44:59
Joel Everything we've done in modern industrial agriculture is to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper. Nobody's thinking about E.coli, type 2 diabetes and the ecological health of the whole system.
47:44
We have allowed ourselves to become so disconnected and ignorant about something that is intimate…as the food that we eat.
Yes, we often turn a blind eye to important things. This is the case now, and it will be the case in the future. Even if we have paid a huge price for this in history, we are very good at forgetting, and the carnival-like life continues!
48:49 Cowboy glasses guy comes on, he's my favorite guy in this documentary, even though he's a farmer
, but with the temperament of a philosopher, with a gleam of wisdom in his words.
That whole thing is such a specious argument.
What a different this is to be out here in the fresh air, sunshine, birds singing in the tree, you know? But you see, according to the USDA, this is unsanitary, because it's open to the air. They tried to close us down. One of the biggest showdowns (showdowns) we had was when they tried to close us down because this was unsanitary. Can you imagine? So we had them cultured at a local microbiology lab, our averaged 133C.FU and the ones from the store averaged 3600. Of course, those have been through 40trillion baths. Ours haven't seen any chlorine. A lot of people wonder “Is this real? I mean, can you really feed the world?” that whole thing is such a specious argument. Because ,yes, we're every bit as efficient, especially if you plug in all of the inefficiencies of the industrial system.I've had people come up at farmer's markets and say "what? $3 a dozen for eggs?" and they're drinking $0.75 a can of soda. I'm always struck by how successful we have been at hitting the bull's-eye of the wrong target(one sentence goes to the bones). I mean we have learn… for example ,in cattle we have learned how to plant, fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology, and nobody sits back and asks” But should we be feeding cows corn?” we’ve become a culture of technicians. We’re all into the how of it and nobody’s stepping back and saying “But why?”fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology, and nobody sits back and asks” But should we be feeding cows corn?” we've become a culture of technicians. We're all into the how of it and nobody's stepping back and saying "But why?"fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology, and nobody sits back and asks” But should we be feeding cows corn?” we've become a culture of technicians. We're all into the how of it and nobody's stepping back and saying "But why?"
Many people have lost the ability to think. In other words, they are unwilling to think. When encountering problems, see what experts have to say, or ask about the thoughts of those around them. Then follow the choice of most people as your own choice, and believe: I am the majority, this is always true! Then put a tick next to it, this problem has been solved, haha! More than 2,000 years ago, Mencius said the same sentence: Do it without sticking to it, practice it without observing it, and follow it for life without knowing the way. It seems that although the language, region and age of life are different, the wisdom is the same.
I mean a culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever creative design that humans can foist on that critter will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations with the same type of disdain disrespect and controlling-type mentality.
All living beings are equal, and a person who treats other creatures rudely will not have any sympathy for his own kind.
58:13
Is cheapness everything that there is? Who wants to buy the cheapest car? We're willing to subsidize(fund) the food system to create the “mystique(secret) of cheap food, when actually it's very expensive food when you add up the environmental costs, societal costs, health costs. The industrial food is not honest food. It's not priced honestly. It's not produced honestly. It's not processed honestly. There is nothing honest about the food.
Even an ordinary farmer in the United States can see the truth that what we now call cheap food is not cheap. Don't the decision-makers in the United States know that? According to common sense, this is unreasonable, so there is only one answer, that is: I know I can't do it and do it, as long as I don't get hurt by it. But is anyone really immune to it? Whoever you are, unless you don't live on Earth! Behind all the cheapness, the premium is far more than the original price, and the difference always has to be paid, it is just a matter of time, or a different way. The time I typed these words was March 5, 2020, and I was wondering when and who would take advantage of the cost of coping with the current epidemic?”
59:04
I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best food in the world and heal. And if in doing so more people come to our corner and want stuff, then heaven help me figure out how to meet the need without compromising the integrity. That's where I am. I have absolutely no desire to be at Wal-Mart. As soon as you grasp for that growth, you're gonna view your customer differently, you're gonna view your product differently, you're gonna view your business differently. You're gonna view everything that is the most important you're gonna view that differently.
The middle way is the opposite.
According to the Chinese people's thinking, the business must be bigger and stronger, and it must follow the path of opening branches, engaging in chain stores, listing and financing, and overseas mergers. Just like Jiro Ono in the Japanese documentary "The God of Sushi": For decades, the small shop has maintained only 10 seats, even if the minimum consumption is now 30,000 yen, it still needs to be reserved 1 month in advance. to expand. After receiving the prize in the morning, they went back to the restaurant in the afternoon to make sushi and continue to work.
1:14:51
The way the system appeared to work to me was Lady Justice had the scales and you piled cash on the scales and the one that piled the most cash on the scales, hired the most experts and was most willing to tell the biggest lies, that was the winner. That seems to be how our justice system function now. it's terrible. How can a farmer defend himself against a multinational corporation like Monsanto?
Simple farmers know that the so-called justice is to see who throws more money.
Although the big environment is not satisfactory, there is always hope and solutions. The parties on the show came out at the end to give their advice. I think they are all thinking, intelligent people. The advice given is very practical, and we can do whatever we want. Start now, start with yourself.
1;27:00
When we run an item past the supermarket scanner, we're voting for local or not, organic or not. Individual consumers changed the biggest company on earth.
The biggest weapon is in the hands of our consumption, and we have the right to choose.
1:28:07 Advice from my favorite denim glasses dude
Imagine what it would be if, as a notional policy, we said we would be only successful if we had fewer people going to the hospital next year than last year. How about that for success? The idea then would be to have such nutritionally dense unadulterated food that people who ate it actually felt better, had more energy, and weren't sick as much. Now see , that's a noble goal .
He calls all the goals he has achieved in his work as the noble goal, the courage and self-confidence to do his part.
1:29:05
You have to understand that we farmers, we're gonna deliver to the marketplace what the marketplace demands. If you want to buy $2 milk, you're gonna get a feedlot in the backyard. It's that simple, people have got to start demanding good, wholesome food of us. And we'll deliver. I promise you. We're very ingenious people. We'll deliver. That's all I had to say.
Demand determines supply. To a certain extent, today's unscrupulous businesses, especially those big brand companies, are raised by our consumers themselves, and now we can't blame others for being harmed. The right is in the hands of our consumers, and our trump card is "don't buy". Simple but the most effective one. But few can do it. Because this requires the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and judge a large amount of information, and requires knowledge of various disciplines as a foundation. These days, it is not easy to make money, but it is even more difficult to spend rationally, scientifically, environmentally and sustainably.
At the end of the program, the following suggestions are given:
You can vote to change this system. Three times a day.
Buy from companies that treat workers, animals, and the environment with respect.
When you go to the supermarkent,
Choose foods that are in season.
Buy foods that are organic.
Know what's in you food.
Read labels.
The average meal travels 1500 miles from the farm to the supermarket.
Buy foods that are grown locally.
Shop at farmers' markets.
Plant a garden. (even a small one)
Cook a meal with your family and eat together.
Everyone has a right to healthy food.
Make sure your farmers' market takes food stamps.
Ask your school board to provide healthy school lunches.
The FDA and USDA are supposed to protect you and your family.
Tell Congress to enforce food safety standards and re-introduce Kevin's Law.
If you say grace, ask for food that will keep us, and the planet healthy.
You can change the world with every bit .
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