Americans were appalled by the truth in their meat products, including how dead rats were ground together and sold as sausage, and how guts were packaged and sold as “potted ham.” When President Theodore Roosevelt read it, he was disgusted, among with other U.S citizens. This sent America into the rush to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which provided federal inspection of meat products in the United States. This also started the Meat Inspection Act, which required the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all of the animals raised in order to be slaughtered and sold for people to eat. The book made many people in the United States convert to vegetarianism. Before The Jungle came out, .72% of Americans were vegetarian, which was about 548,726 people.
I firmly believe that these corporations have put to the side and have purposely tried to hide the actuality about how unhealthy the food they create truly is for the American community. The documentary “Food Inc.” produced by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, takes an in depth look at America’s food business and the awful but
The government needs to be stricter when it comes to product inspections. 2 weeks ago Georgia Peanut company were caught selling salmonella-infested peanut butter to the public. according to the CBS news article on the subject, “Former peanut corporation of America owner, Stewart Parnell was convicted on numerous counts including conspiracy, wire fraud and obstruction of justice related to shipping tainted peanut butter to customers.”. Stewart Parnell knew about the tainted peanuts, but shipped it to customers anyway. The peanuts failed the safety inspection and Parnell made an effort to hide the evidence.
The cows have no say in what they have to eat so they are pretty much fed toxic garbage. Next, the food industry should be changed because each burger contains one-hundred different pieces of cows. Imagine people eating all of the cows on one farm. John White, a meat farmer, said that people are always calling him, complaining about people getting sick because of eating two bites of a burger and he is tired of it. Before, tobacco farming was very popular, but now it has changed to meat farming.
Food can be an addiction and with fast food corporations literally telling us to eat their food how can we resist? They know we cannot and therefore reap in the cash slowly killing every one of their consumers, but do not worry they are already conditioning a new generation of cheeseburger, french-fry eating consumers to take your place once you have died from a heart
Pathos is the tenet of rhetoric that appeals to the emotion of an argument. It shows a viewpoint and tries to hit a soft spot or provoke a course of action. When Schlosser talks about the dangers and greed of meat packing plants, he tells us of a truly saddening story about a man named Kenny. This story of Kenny Dobbins really made me sad and mad about how greedy people are. He gave his body and his life to a meat packing company and they screwed him over when
McDonald's molded it's marketing tactics on Disney which inspired icons for advertising such as Ronald McDonald. Schlosser also mentions that 80% of sponsored textbooks are biased toward the sponsor and 30% of high schools offer fast food in their cafeterias. Most packaging done for the fast food meat industry is done my the immigrant labor force. Injury for workers who hold these jobs are among the highest of any other occupation in the United States. Many unsanitary and just plain disgusting routine procedures of this industry are unknown to most consumers.
Alternative Dispute Resolution LAW/531 April 4, 2011 Alternative Dispute Resolution William T Robinnett filed a lawsuit against Saveway supermarket Stores, Inc., a grocery store, and the picking B&B Company of Orlando FL, a meat picking and distributor of meats. In his complaint, plaintiff alleged that the defendants were liable for negligence for injuries his suffered when he fell in a poll of blood that was came from the meats cart. The Meat was stacked on the cart of the supermarket when he was shopping at the supermarket. Defendant Saveway took plaintiff William’s deposition, in which he stated that he had entered the supermarket, and upon entering the store, he immediately walked to the Meat aisle. William stated that he did not see the poll of blood or the shopping cart full of meat and the poll of blood on the floor before he fell on top of the poll of blood.
But it wasn’t until I watched Food Inc., that my perception of the food industry shift and I started to watch out for what I eat. Food Inc. is a documentary by Robert Kenner that exposes the secrets that the food industry hides from the public. The documentary uses contrasting images of an ideal country life with the harsh truth of the food factories with their unsanitary conditions. By using horrific scenes, interviews, testimonials, and many other ways to convince their audience that the food industry does not have our best interest. Food Inc. affectively convinces the audience with the use of logos, ethos, and pathos, that there are problems within the food industry that are negatively affecting everyone’s lives thus we should take action against big businesses in the food industry.
Those who still eat beef are, in my view, foolishly exposing themselves to the risk of contracting the horrifying human version of Mad Cow Disease. Add to those hazards the fact that if you eat meat you may be consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals that have been fed to the animals before they were killed and you can see the extent of the danger. No one knows precisely what effect eating the hormones in meat is likely to have on your health. But the risk is there and I think it's a big one. Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm.