Food Inc.

What we have created
is what we have destroyed.
We have remade nature
out of metal
and organized the forests
into rows.
In a world where corn
is the only thing on the menu
and the word 'chicken'
conjures up the image of a pink,
featherless breast wrapped in plastic
it is hard to imagine what is next.
We can look back however,
when farms weren't factories,
but homes.
Looking back is what gives us
hope for the future because maybe
we can recreate what once was.
Not in a romantic Little House on the Prairie
way, but in a sustainable and healthy way.
Why did we need to make cows into machines?
Why did we make chickens into disproportionate
beings that can no longer stand up naturally
for the rate at which they are
engineered to grow?
A grain of corn can be modified
and genes of soybeans can be owned.
We have moved and created too fast,
so fast that we never stopped to think
that maybe what we were creating
wasn't how it was supposed to be.
Sick herds, river contamination, erosion,
monocultures, super weeds, pesticides and
disease are common vocabulary words
when talking about modern day farming.
Let us return to crop rotation, grass feed
and natural pest control. We need to feed
a nation and a world, but we are not going
to do that with desert like fields of soy.
We cannot do that with cows full of antibiotics
and chickens that can't stand up.
We have to not only think of our health,
but the health of what sustains us.
The world is bigger than us.
So we need to set about undoing
what we have created,
and therefore live life in the palm of the earth
instead of fighting her with
industrialization and science.

                        -inspired by the film Food Inc.

"Please stop growing genetically modified soy"