Introduction
For our last project we had to create a collaborative research project with a purpose of collaborating with at least one other partner to research and compose a project that explores a complicated issue related to America's production and consumption of food. After viewing the documentary "Food Inc." during our Writing, Research, and Technology class, my group consisting of Kaitlyn Bill, myself, and Ashley Pfaff became overwhelmed with the thought of generating our own research topic. After changing our approach multiple times, we mutually agreed that we were curious as to why average American's, including two members of Kaitlyn's family, choose to put out the money to raise their own livestock. Naturally, we assumed that most did it for the money, but we knew that there had to be a deeper explanation to our biased judgement. As average college students, our main focus during the day is just being able to feed ourselves in general, sometimes paying attention to the health benefits, but we wanted to know what could come out of raising livestock on a few acres of land.