Cattle were herded up wooden ramps to the top floor, where they were struck on the head with a sledgehammer, slaughtered, and then disassembled by skilled workers. Not only are animals being mistreated, but also the workers. The working conditions in these meatpacking plants were brutal. Upton
Workers are forced to butcher animals and process their meat at fast rates, too often causing injury. The stories told by workers who suffered injuries on the job are gruesome and heart breaking. Many were forced to work right after their injuries like Raoul, an immigrant who came to the U.S. looking for work, who had a tendon severed and was put immediately back on the production line “A tendon had been severed. After getting stitches and a strong prescription pain killer, he was driven back to the slaughter house and put back on the production line. Bandaged, groggy, and in pain, one arm tied in a sling, Raoul spent the rest of the day wiping blood off cardboard boxes with his good hand.” (Schlosser 202).
Corporations like Monsanto who are attributed to producing over 80% of the corn, and over 90% of soy produced each year, don’t care if the seeds they create are harmful for us and the environment. Same goes for the meat and poultry companies they are producing food that is unhealthy and making billions on it. All of the monsanto seeds are unleashed on the public with no prior testing for safety. So eating genetically modified food is like participating in a global
Food Inc. Review After you see the unsanitary habitats cattle are in, the horrible way Tyson treats the chickens, and the way our farmers are cutting corners and are basically being forced to work. You seriously may not pick up a fork for days after watching! I advise you to stop eating and stuff your face BEFORE watching the stunning, HEART- WRENCHING, stomach-turning documentary by Robert Kenner called Food Inc. You will be amazed at how blind and helpless we are as a people when it comes to the food we eat every day… well every 20 minutes if you are like me. The documentary starts us off in the aisles of grocery stores, but very quickly shifts to the slaughterhouses and seeds that make a large portion of our foods. This is when the film very strongly establishes its side and position in this argument.
Insofar as I can make-out, people are uncomfortable to know how animals die and to assume such a responsibility. When I've showed people videos of --seemingly credible-- factory farm footage they either react in two different ways: (1) either they quiver-away or plea me to turn it off (2) or they uncomfortably scoff at how ridiculously cynical it all is. Albeit, appalled, this doesn't generally discourage people to stop eating meat altogether. They simply look past it when they go-off and buy animal-based products. The fact of the matter is that the animal products we buy are the source of considerable pain and cruelty.
Meat inspection is a part of everyone's daily lives, they eat meat at breakfast, lunch and at dinner, and the things put into the meat we consume daily is horrifying. “ Meat would be stored in great piled in rooms; and the water from the leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it.” (Upton , Sinclair. "The Jungle." Viking Press 1905) 6000,000 is exactly what is needed to put these horrifyingly disgusting things behind us. Children from 5 to 18 in factories, coal mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, home industries, canneries and other horrible jobs.
learned the following information after watching the Food Inc. documentary film: 1) Farm owners treat the livestock and poultry in their farms in a horrifying and sickening manner; 2) Farm workers are also being abused by the farm owners and made to work in farms where the minimum standards of safety are not being met; 3) The food products being sold in the market such as the chicken, pork and tomato and others are being fed artificial food so that they grow faster and become bigger, and fatter in lesser period of time; 4) Processed food are basically and ultimately come from the same product which is corn; 5) There is a new strain of E. coli which causes illness to 73,000 Americans and death to thousands more; 6)More Americans now have diabetes
(Remarque 101) The rats ate all of the soldier’s food, and contaminated all of their belongings with droppings. Even if the food was contaminated, the soldiers had to eat it because they couldn’t waste throwing it away. (Remarque 102) “We cannot afford to throw the bread away, because then we should have nothing left to eat in the morning so we carefully cut off the bits of bread that the animals have gnawed.” (Remarque 102) Many of the soldiers were scared to go
The video then talks about the meat packing industry and how it is the most dangerous job in the world so illegal immigrants have become common. The government has started cracking down on workers not the companies so this is an ongoing process. Jumps back to the honest farmer that does it old fashioned and has him talking about how the whole system of industry will be changed from the excessive demand. The system has become very vicious and consequences for not following regulations have become so severe that the accused farmers are put out of business. The video closes with statements like buy organic and support do good farmers.
Many harmless animals are mistreated and they should not be. There was a time when I was shown a video about where the meat we eat comes from. That video showed chickens caged inside a small area, also in bad conditions that were probably bad for their health. The workers there tossed them around carelessly and ignored their cries. There were also many chickens that were already dead in the mix of other live chickens.