I got to watch the documentary "Food, Inc." last night. Well, what can I say! It's contemplation, important enough to justify.
As per my views, the purpose of the documentary is to compel mankind, as one vast fraternity, and make them feel obligated, by a sense of duty towards Mother Nature. It has to be a moral obligation as a defender, one which is not just an impulsive reaction, but a premeditated one. Ideally, it should have been a legal obligation. But mankind is selfish enough to exploit its own source of living to the extent of destroying oneself, obscured by the glare of “species chauvinism”, in other words, an antagonist of mankind.
You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. On an optimistic note though, it’s true that its difficult to revert back in time, but hopefully we are learning our lessons as is evident from the new additions to the ever growing lineage of organic and local farmer market lovers, slowly but steadily. In this fight, I think, Education is Power, one which can depress this misfortune by enlightening the lost mankind and bringing it back on track.
Here’s some quotes that stress the truth about defying nature:
Humankind has NOT woven THE web OF life. We are but one THREAD WITHIN it. Whatever we DO TO THE web, we DO TO ourselves. ALL things are BOUND together. ALL things CONNECT. ~Chief Seattle, 1855
Sickness IS THE vengeance OF nature FOR THE violation OF her laws. ~Charles Simmons
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future FOR man IF he spent LESS TIME proving that he can outwit Nature AND more TIME tasting her sweetness AND respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays OF E.B. White, 1977
THE deviation OF man FROM THE state IN which he was originally placed BY nature seems TO have proved TO him a prolific SOURCE OF disease. ~Edward Jenner
FOR 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it TO death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted IN Francesca Lyman, THE Greenhouse Trap, 1990