2-15-2010 Omnivore's Dilemma: Resisting Nature

Grass, one of the most overlooked natural abundance that affects our entire ecosystem in a way that we cannot imagine. Even though we, human, as omnivore don’t consume grass like many others, we live and thrive through it as a balanced system. The sun give solar energy to the grass, the animal that consumes it takes the energy, and the animal that consumes that takes the energy. The cycle goes on to us, in each stage, energy is lost by roughly 10%. Polyface farm look at our already developed system and adapt to it. With rotational grazing, they were able to take and give back to natural, without harming the earth and on the contrary, enrich the soil. Every animal in the farm has their own job that contributes to the successful of the farm. When we think of farming, this is what we think of. Not overly processed, chemical filled, industrialized farming, where everything is sanitized and everything is overly processed, to a point where the energy is just cheap leftover. When we compare the pros and cons, we see that even though industrial farming is “cheap” and efficient, it is nothing more than our nation’s struggle to power. Where the nation that holds the most grain holds the power; corn is just more sustainable in the sense of containment, breaking down, and storability. That’s why our government decided to switch over to corn instead of using the nature system that works so effectively.