Farmer in Chief Seminar

I found that the seminar took a bad turn when we began discussing junk food. Not because it was a dull or uninteresting topic but once we hit junkfood we didn't get anywhere else. Once I believe it was Diana that brought up the idea of banning junkfood we got stuck on the topic, and the seminar seemed to die just then. I found various aspects of the packet interesting like the idea of feedlots and the counterproductivity of feeding the livestock antibiotics that would lead to stronger new strains of bacterium and virus'. The fact that the livstock were in kept such horrible conditions that they no longer had a legitimate functioning immune system struck me profoundly, and disturbed me. The idea that came to mind was rather than attempting to create more effective antibiotics we reform the whole system of livestock. I believe that we should return to the basics and go back to farm-raising and free range animals. Not only does farming need a reform but our whole system of food production needs to be reformed, we're burning through fossil fuels at an alarming rate and at a ratio of one food calorie per ten fossil fuel calories burned we won't be getting anywhere. This is a great task and I believe the best place to begin is educating the public. Before we put new policies into play we must inform the general public of what this destructive cycle of consumption will lead to.