Professor Santos
ENGL 102-042
6 April 2018
Blog Post
Throughout the week we learned about agriculture in a physical and philosophical way, and how they can be very different from one another. By this I mean the difference from the video we watched in class Wednesday and reading The One-Straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka. Fukuoka really makes your mind think especially how she feels about nature. In a shorter and simplified way, Fukuoka speaks about that when nature dies or when their lifespan comes to an end it is ok because there is a new beginning and more will come out of it. But for humanity, we decide to sulk in our sorrow when one's time is over. Of course we will be sad by loosing someone, especially when the two of you are close, shared many memories together, didn't end things on good terms, or unexpectedly passes away. But we have to put that aside at one point because there is more to life than being sad about something you can't control. Now the video in class, that was more eye opening to me than anything. Mainly because what I witnessed is like nothing I have ever seen before. There was a festival for hunting and roadkill, that is just not a common thing you see, at least in the New England area it's not. During the festival they would actually give out awards such as "Ms. Roadkill 2017", they actually made this pageant idea available for killing animals. Something just doesn't seem right to me. There were hunters skinning animals such as goats, deer, and others for clothing and other materialistic things. What I am in shock about is how you would place both Fukuoka and these people at the festival in a nature category but their views and approach are in complete opposite ends. I guess nature can truly do some incredible things by making these two different sets of people closer than what most would. Also in the video, something that I found very interesting was the mushroom farmers. These farmers drove their trucks literally right through the forrest and they would find a spot and start searching the area for mushrooms. It was not what I was expecting to be quite frank. I thought mushrooms were grown on a farm and given their own area but instead they are grown and picked in random forests. It just something that we don't think about and when we see the actual way it is very mesmerizing.
I have also never seen anything like the hunting festival and thought it was interesting to see that many people together doing something I have never seen.
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