Fresh, entry 5

I recently watched film, Fresh, which is an independent documentary about farmers and how they treat their animals in the United states. Before watching this film, I had never considered how our food was made. Of course I know that hamburgers comes from cows and bacon comes from pigs, but I never thought about how each animal was treated, or even how uses of pesticides affected the Earth.

Throughout Fresh, they show two types of farmers: sustainable or conventional. The sustainable farmers follow natures natural patterns. Cows eat grass, fertilize the ground, and chickens are not stuck in chicken coops. Picture your stereotypical farm in your head and that is what a sustainable farmer does.

The conventional farmers are focused on the quantity. They could care less about the quality of the food they are putting out for the public to eat.  They will cover the crops in pesticide and fill the animals with antibiotics, just to keep their numbers high and are meeting the standards of the contract the farmer is usually under. In the end, they still lose though, because their crops are still destroyed by insects that adapt to the pesticides.  Overall, conventional farmers are just in the farming business for money.

Honestly this film was eye-opening to see how the animals are being treated and how I am putting unnecessary chemicals in my body while I am eating vegetables trying to be healthy. There is a problem with conventional farming, and I think the best was to fix it would be for more companies to have higher standers like Chipotle does when they pick out their foods to serve and for more companies to post of they use food grown with GMO's.

Chill, Netflix entry 4

Netflix, one of the largest streaming sites in America, has recently decided to raise their prices from $7.99 to $8.99 then to $9.99. (moving to $10.99 for viewing on two screens and having HD).  Personally, as a college student, these price raises can be really inconvenient. Like most college students, I can't afford cable. Netflix is a great solution. Granted, $7.99 paid monthly can still be expensive, adding up to $95.88. But once the prices raise the streaming service will cost $107.88 a year (when you pay $8.99 per  month) then $119.88 (when you pay $9.99 per month). (If you have the duel screens it will move to $131.88 a year).  If Netflix, offered some type of discount for students like Hulu does (which is only $5.00 a month for students) then they defiantly would be able to keep more of their regular users

Along with price increases, Netflix announced that Disney will be pulling their movies and shows. As a major Disney fanatic, this is rather upsetting. I wouldn't be surprised if many users extremely upset. Overall It would be smart for Netflix to offer a student discount like other streaming services and music services as well.