LE Reflection Blog

 Today, we continued watching the documentary and the section today talked about the damage caused by chemical advancements. There were mainly two problems that we touched on today, and the first was made to help sell more agriculture and the other was to be used to clear forest for war in Vietnam. Despite this faint difference in motive one similarity is that they were created for the benefit of humans with many unfixable damages to humans and nature. Firstly, the pesticide was a chemical to kill unwanted bugs eating farmers' crops. It helped farmers sell more food. The second is Agent Orange, a life-killing chemical used in the Vietnam war used by the US to balance their battle area with the Vietnamese. Both polluted the soil, connecting to the water source and contaminating thousands of families living near the usage site. Even though the initial contamination was done years before the problem, the damage still lingers within families around the world. But the problem with this ...

 Today we learned about the correlation between the movie Matrix and the meat industry. We started with the gist of the original movie, then moved on to the parody made by Free-Range Studio on the dangers of the meat industry.  When watching the videos, it was interesting how similar the meat industry and this movie have in common. the innuendo on how we are blinded by the powerful felt as if it was not just talking about this one industry. Throughout this year, we looked at all the ways people, companies, and even countries deceive their supporters for their own profit and when noticing that I was also unaware of this, it made me want to research these censored topics.  The Meatrix video was an epitome when it came to this idea and the way they presented it also made it likable for the younger generation. We often think that society is made from adults right now, it may look true in a short-term view, but when thinking about this from a long-term problem, it becomes clea...