Source: hullstudent.com
By revolutionizing one aspect of even a single food crop can entail enormous positive results in an unrealized way. Perhaps in the least, increase motivation to not only be mindful of environmental causes, but to gain actualized knowledge of where food originates, how it lands at the supermarket, who the buyers are, what price fairness means, and what a food item represents before it is enjoyed. This is where necessary reform and attention needs to be- it is not just an environmental concern, this is a human concern. The emphasis is not only on the potential harms of a plastic six-pack ring and its final destination (a landfill, we know this by second grade) but where a certain country is located, who those people are, who is behind their job to harvest the fruit? What do phrases like, price fixing, bioengineering, or food politics… mean? In addition, the vocabulary involving the most basic tenants of farming and how food is “generated” is in fact disturbingly unknown or grossly inaccurate. Food is not generated. A banana is not plucked off a banana tree. Koeppel demonstrates this so well in his book. Even more so, a banana isn’t simply “plucked” there is an exacting science behind it, one that the average consumer has no idea. This is the unfortunate truth, but hope exists in the possibilities that are gained through education concerning bioengineering and the longterm benefits it offers.
