We Are Not Free By Wendell Berry Summary
Berry tried to tell us that the food we eat is neither healthy nor natural anymore. He gave his public these hints by saying the following; “There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else” (Berry 7) and “Most urban shoppers would tell you that food is produced on farms. But most of them do not know what farms, or what kind of farms, or where the farms are, or what knowledge of skills is involved in farming.”(Berry 4) I believe everyone has different opinions and arguments but mine happens to disagree with Wendell Berry’s argument.
Wendell Berry argues that the farms are not even farms anymore and the foods we eat are GMOs. Yes, this might be true but I disagree with Berry in the “we are not free because the food we eat is being controlled by someone else.” first of all I think …show more content…
Berry also said how we don’t know where the farms are from or what they do to the animals we eat or how badly they get treated but have we died? That’s the question. There hasn’t been a big amount of deaths per month but they add them up by year. And not every food company is like that, also as the years go by the population grows bigger and it gets harder to make a huge amount of food in just days so the easy way out is to feed them corn. Call me cruel but those animals will die eventually, we will die eventually so why are we worrying about the type of food we eat or feed to
Wendell Berry argues that the farms are not even farms anymore and the foods we eat are GMOs. Yes, this might be true but I disagree with Berry in the “we are not free because the food we eat is being controlled by someone else.” first of all I think …show more content…
Berry also said how we don’t know where the farms are from or what they do to the animals we eat or how badly they get treated but have we died? That’s the question. There hasn’t been a big amount of deaths per month but they add them up by year. And not every food company is like that, also as the years go by the population grows bigger and it gets harder to make a huge amount of food in just days so the easy way out is to feed them corn. Call me cruel but those animals will die eventually, we will die eventually so why are we worrying about the type of food we eat or feed to