When you are frightened by the endless and blooming food problems in China, when there are rumors on the Internet how strict the food safety in developed countries is, this documentary tells you in a timely manner that in the most developed countries in the world, food problems are still terrifying! The instant chickens of McDonald's and KFC still can't stand up, the E. coli in the beef and the fecal pollution outside the beef are still disgusting, and the chicken breasts of the instant chickens are still amazingly large. All these are not the creation of the Chinese, and the United States has a precedent.
Rather than saying who was earlier, lamenting the amazing similarity, it is better to say that this is brought about by the natural intensification of the development of productive forces to a certain stage. The degree of intensification of American agriculture is so high that it is explained as a classic case in high school textbooks, listing its various advantages, such as saving resources, facilitating rural planning, accelerating urbanization, etc., and it is claimed to be the future development direction of Chinese agriculture. Today's central government's instruction is to speed up the transformation of the economic development mode and accelerate the modernization of agriculture. The purpose of agricultural modernization is nothing more than this kind of intensive agriculture. All farmers use the same tools, use the same seeds, and use the same irrigation method to plant crops with the same yield on the divided contracted land. The same is true in the breeding industry, through a unified feeding method, and then entering the assembly line to produce exactly the same food under the precision of the machine. It is not allowed to have one's own way, and it is not allowed to hide seeds privately. This is also the necessity of intensification. Only in this way can we achieve the largest intensification, create the greatest benefits with the least resources, and avoid pollution to the greatest extent.
Is that right? The media and textbooks generally promote the safety and hygiene of individual farmers or small-scale farms, but intensification can solve this problem. But in this documentary, we see that is not the case. The individual space brought by intensification is small and even airtight, which will cause the sickness of animals and plants, for example, chickens that cannot stand up because their bodies are too heavy. And slaughtering thousands of cows a day also makes it impossible to wash the feces from the cows, not to mention that the grains eaten by the instant cows will multiply the E. coli in the cow's stomach. So, is intensification safer and more hygienic?
Now, there is another group of people who yearn for the quiet and simple life of their ancestors, put down their jobs, leave the city, settle in the mountains and forests, and start the most primitive farming with their own hands to produce the cleanest and safest food. Such life and crops have become today's fashion and low-key luxury. The handmade crops that are produced in small quantities but are rarely seen in today's ingredients are often sold at high prices, but they quickly swept the city. This is also the product of the development of productive forces to a certain stage. Just as the few American farmers in the documentary have awakened and struggled to defend a truly healthy agriculture, the Chinese are becoming more and more aware of the various drawbacks of agricultural intensification, and have a more objective and in-depth understanding of primitive farming, just like when KFC entered the market when they were young. China was flocked to, but then gradually regarded as an unhealthy fast food, this is a process. It is only in the pursuit of maximization of benefits under intensification. Of course, chlorine gas and ammonia gas will be used to sterilize the food in question, rather than considering the source.
There was a leader at a food safety conference who believed that China's food safety problem is actually related to the overall quality of the Chinese people. It is not an independent problem, so it is impossible to eliminate it in a short period of time. On the contrary, it will take a long time. a period of time. I agree with his point of view. Unlike the United States, China's food safety problems often come from individuals, not big American interests. From this point of view, the overall quality of the Chinese people is indeed an important factor. At least in the United States, it is not uncommon for farmers to fight against big interest groups and defend healthy agriculture, but not in China.
But even if all the food on the market is safe, we have to eat it, unless everyone hides in the mountains to grow rice. Intensification is also the future of agriculture. It's just that this film shocks and inspires the world, and it also completes its mission.
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