Do they expect me to get rid of all those other foods to? Surely they don’t have a bias for just eating turkeys, but meat in general. I just can’t do that; meat is part of my daily life. “On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime.” (pg. 121) I am one of those Americans who eat meat, and to give it up on Thanksgiving for someone else’s selfishness is not going to happen.
We rarely think completely about where the food we eat comes from and how is it produced. "Food, Inc.", a frank and sometimes grisly expose of the profit-driven food profession in the United States, is sure to shake up our views of what we eat. Factory system was conveyed to the back of the kitchen, after which food began to be formed on assembly lines. From the film, we can see that health and safety are frequently ignored by those companies, and are often overlooked by government in an struggle to provide cheap food heedlessly of these bad penalties. According to data, 70% of antibiotics are used on farm animals.
Swanson notes that intensive animal farming first started with the poultry industry and now, hog farming is following the trend. Swanson continues by saying that for centuries, animal have adapted to new environments however because of confinement the animals have issues developing themselves correctly. Swanson says that critics of factory farming argue that these practices are the cause of mass “suffering” of farm animals. But many
The CAFO Conundrun The iconic family farms of yesteryear are gone. The towering silos and red barns are replaced by industrial buildings more closely resembling warehouses than farms. The vast green fields of grazing cows has been replaced by lurid, cramped, pens with the animals being fed grains that they are unable to properly digest, as they wade through ankle deep swamps of their own manure. The hardworking, up-before-the-sun farmhand fell long ago to hordes of cheap, disposable, abused workers; the independent farm owner succumbed to the monopolous agricultural corporations that push them farther and farther into debt by contractually requiring ever-modern equipment, though never increasing salaries. Farms are no longer farms;
Diamond mentions on page 107 that a possible ideology that many people that knew about the processes of farming were thinking was, “Shall I spend today hoeing my garden (predictably yielding a lot of vegetables several months from now), gathering shellfish (predictably yielding a little meat today), or hunting deer (yielding possibly a lot of meat today, but more likely nothing)?” Humans and animals are always prioritizing by availability and preferability of food choices. Availability played a key role because as wild game was hunted, its numbers depleted and became harder to hunt, offering less possibility of a decent payoff. This is possibly why in central and southeastern Europe the hunter-gatherer lifestyle became less effective, thus being a less likely life
Instead of relying on the land to supply food for us, people can go to their local grocery store and buy pre packaged, ready to cook meat. This is much easier and ethical than sitting and waiting hours at a time in the wilderness for an animal to walk by. People know that they will not starve because all they have to do is drive a mile or two down the road to pick up some food at the store, unlike in the past when people had to hunt for their survival and didn’t know when the next time they would eat or if they would eat at all. Today, almost no one is involved in hunting only, because hunting for survival is no longer a concern. If people hunted just for the meat, then no one would do it.
Then we grab all the potatoes and rinse them off with cold running water. We cut each potato into dices and put all the potato dices into a pan to let them boil. While we cooked potatoes and a turkey, with my dads help, my brothers and I put a ham with pineapples on a grill. The smoke coming off the grill about an hour later really made me so hungry. Who likes pie on Thanksgiving?
The use of synthetic fertilizers made plants grow and a faster pace. Then came the discovery of the vitamins and animal nutrition in the 20th century. In the late 1920’s farmers were now allowed to give their livestock vitamins. By giving the animals vitamins they no longer needed sunlight or exercise and were raised indoors in close quarters. A majority of the world’s farm animals live in miserable conditions.
Ethical Treatment of Animals Christine Conklin SOC120 Instructor Getachew Wakgira May 17, 2013 Ethical Treatment of Animals Walk down the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store and you will find numerous items that were once part of an animal’s body or produced by various body parts. They have been butchered, sliced up, processed, packaged, and sold to humans for many years so that we may continue to be well-nourished and happy creatures. What the average person doesn’t think about when purchasing and consuming those tasty bacon burgers with melted cheddar cheese is the process by which those products were delivered to them. Was the animal treated ethically as a living creature or did it live a short and painful life with many others of its type only to have its feathers ripped out and head chopped off so that its body can be deep fried and dipped in sweet and sour sauce? This report will demonstrate the differences of the treatment of animals comparing cultures.
The giant corporations that run most factory farms have found that they can make more money by cramming animals into tiny spaces, even though many of the animals get sick and some die. Recently in 2011, Sparboe Farms, located in states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado, had an MFA undercover investigator expose appalling cruelty at the fast-food giant's major egg supplier. Ask yourself, “What is really in a McDonald's Egg McMuffin?” Hidden-camera footage shot at Sparboe Farms, the fifth-largest egg producer in the country and a significant egg supplier to major companies like McDonald's, Target, Sam's Club, and other smaller companies, revealing hens