China Shrimping

When Yu came to talk to us, she made me realize that this problem with industrializing food is worldwide, and not just a problem in the United States. She talked about how China's shrimping industry has been quickly changing from small local farms to big industrialized procedures. And because of these procedures, China is having to pay the consequences. Big shrimping machines and closed in shrimping farms put the enviroment and other animals in danger. It is taking away small. local family business for unhealthy and bigger farms which can sell cheaper and make more of a profit.
This reminded me exactly of ruth Ozeki's book and what we talked about. It is directly parallel to the industrialized farming of potatoes and other vegetables. Injected chemicals to make the shrimp and vegetable look better or last longer, put the consumers in danger. We don't know what is in what we eat anymore that is not organic. Farmers these days will sacrifice anything to make a bigger profit and to dominate the market. Smaller family farms have seemed to diappear only to be replaced by these bigger industrialized ones that consolidate what they are raising into smaller areas so that while they are unhealthy, they can raise more of them.
This problem is worldwide. And it applies to almost everything--plants and animals. At this point in time, it seems to me that we have dug ourselves in to a hole that's too big to get out of. It's actually kind of scary to me thinkiong about how what we are eating is being prosuced, and if it's even worth it.