Survival response

Indigenous Resistance shows the issue of assimilation of the Salish people into British Columbia and Washington State. the salish occupied a region on the border of both countries. The children of these indians were forced to go to boarding school or face punishment and criticism in public schools. In the schools they were trained into white culture and sent to white foster families never seeing their family again. The natives were treated with racism and the americans did all to destroy their culture. They wanted their land and used assimilation to both take away their culture and take their property.

The Meatrix

I enjoyed watching the meatrix. It was very entertaining while also bring light to the meat industry. It shows how the family farms of the past are no longer and are virtually non existent similar to the matrix and showing the lie and the resistance. This would be very good for children and young adults who might not already know much about the meat industry of the day.
The meatrix ties in various things from the matrix and adapts them well to show the meat industry. With the antibiotics being shown as the red pill blue pill from the matrix.
something that the meat industry reminded me of was organic farming. In a quote i remember from somewhere, its been said that organic can only sustain around 4 billion people. So for any real progress to occur we must first reduce our population drastically.

food inc response

Genetically modified foods hold promise to end the worlds hunger problems. The catch is that there may be health risks associated with these foods. Long term testing has not been done to see the effects and they could be very damaging to ones health in the long run. These foods are genetically modified to have higher crop yield and resistance to disease and pests.
While GM crops could help the food crisis some think that its not the amount of food that's the problem but, rather that food distribution and politics are to blame.
I believe that GM foods are a viable option for solving the growing food crisis but, we should be careful that we don't modify too much that we endanger our health. This is hard to do for people strapped for money and can't afford organic foods void of genetic modification. 

Fracking and Water Contamination

Hydraulic fracking uses large amounts of water and chemicals pumped through underground rock to cause fractures to extract natural gas. Recently though federal environmental officials have investigated pollutants linked to these practices. In Wyoming people have begun to have a noticeable effect on their tap water. These researchers have linked fracturing to pollution of water causing toxic drinking water.

There are running debates on if fracking is a viable method in the extraction of natural gases or if it creates too much pollution irrepably damaging the area. Fracking companies stand by their claim that fracking is an overall safe process and that it would not pollute the water supply. They claim that if there is water contamination it is rather a fluke than a common occurance.

The EPA has found a different story, they have found hydrocarbons and contaminates that they believe is linked to fracking. This was later confirmed by a second round of sampling. The EPA released their findings and noted how they found chemicals used specifically in the fracking process. The fracking wells are far underground which lead the fracking companies to believe that there is no way for chemicals to reach drinking water. Even though these are far below some of the chemicals will always find its way into the drinking water.

I believe that fracking is an unsafe process; the name fracking just sounds bad involving the fracturing of the underground rock. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s found that fracking causes geologic instability to accompany its water pollution issue. Fracking causes evident dangers in the method used today. Better techniques need to be figured out if fracking is to be a viable energy source.