Rural America Part I

This is some rough video but I am going to go ahead and show it because I think it has important content...

It was my intention to document the events that led up to the closing of the Washington County Arkansas Livestock Sale Barn in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This documentary is an account of an exchange center for cattlemen that was in operation for 73 years. Since 1936 mostly men and some women have come to the sale barn to buy and sell livestock. I am compelled to acknowledge the changes for the small rural livestock farm and would like to understand more about the large commercial livestock industry and its effect on the food chain. Moreover, how does this change in agrarian culture affect human relationships with the landscape? How does the commercialization of agricultural products and genetically engineered enhancement detach and dehumanize our ethical investment of human labor and respect for livestock animals?