Food #8, Industrialization

When did America become artificial? Apparently, in the 1950's, or so the Meatrix tells it. Between the Meatrix and the video watched in class yesterday, I have never wanted to be a vegetarian more since the summer of 6th grade when I tried to be a vegetarian. The Meatrix is quite informative once you look past the quick bits of humor. What truly scares me is that this is the reality of the world. People ar ignorant of the world around them, because they simply accept what they are shown as everything there is, when in fact the corporations filter what is seen. People tend o accept this surface value, which I feel is at their disadvantage, because they can easily be lied to and manipulated into buying on product over another. Watching the Meatrix is actually physically upsetting for me, because the unwarranted cruelty gets to me and makes me want to lash out at the corporations. If just the animations get to me like this, you can imagine how he footage of the chicks affected me.

When watching the Colbert Report interview with Michael Pollan, Stephen Colbert made a passing comment about how even as a baby, the corporations try to convert the young into artificial beings, switching from the natural (Breast milk) to the unnatural (Formula). This is reflected throughout childhood, as the TV plays commercials of "fruit roll-ups", and "fruit loops", when in fact the closest thing they contain to actual fruit is corn syrup and artificial coloring. As an adult, this is reflected in commercials on TV that advertise fast food joints over home cooking, including commercials that say things that illude to the general idea of "Why cook if somebody else can make it for you?", which draws people into the allure of the future corporations and unhealthy living that rule many American lives.