In regard to the company's plan to cut 15 percent of its workforce he protests, "Nestle can't do whatever it likes? He says, "There are men and women who work here? Morally speaking the water and the gas stored below this ground belong to the whole region.? (From attached file) Misunderstanding (communication problems; inadequate information) average. Management does not agree, perhaps due to a lack of information of the real problem (what is causing the lower production at this plant?)
The analysis of the employees working at the Hondo plant shows that it is very detrimental to move the plant to Mexico because all employees will lose their jobs. A + was given for scheduling the heavy work because this will ensure that no jobs are lost. The customers were given a - for moving to Mexico for the reason that all of the expenses of relocating may cause product prices to rise. Otherwise, customers are not much of a factor in this decision making. The community of Hondo was given --- for moving to Mexico because a high percentage of employment comes from the plant and closing it would be crushing to the economy of Hondo.
The documentary also shows how animals are given antibiotics to make them grow much more rapidly. In addition, Food Inc. presents that factory farming does damage to the environment due to the loss of biodiversity. The article “Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming” from the Washington Post emphasizes how factories have taken a hidden toll on humans’ health. It mentions how factory farming fails to provide humane treatment of animals. The article also talks about how that modern agriculture like factory farming is responsible for about the twenty percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas production.
But how did humans even get to this kind of lifestyle? What about this period in time made all these transitions possible? The answer is that their climate changed. Although climate changes happened all over the world, one of the most prominent examples of this change is shown in the Fertile Crescent. Humans here were forced to give up their hunter-gatherer ways because “there was a decline in the availability of naturally occurring wild grains and a fall in the size of the antelope and deer herds” (Harman 10).
However due to illegal logging and the government’s agricultural policy, it had resulted in the loss of many forests. Without these forests there will be no vegetation to intercept the rainwater. Besides that since Thailand is geographically sloped at angle without trees to secure the soil together, it will increase the chances of soil erosion so the soil and mud will be washed into rivers causing them to be shallower. Furthermore the bare slopes that remained will result in increased surface runoff. Similarly in Boscastle, farming in upper course had led to deforestation and removal of hedgerows decreasing the amount of interception from higher ground.
Due to the colonial introduction of borders by the European nations, many Nomadic tribes were trapped in their villages unable to continue to migrate, their herds repeatedly fed through the existing vegetation leaving stripped barren land. Other poor agricultural practices such as repeated plantings and the lack of adopting modern farming methods, has left land depleted of nutrients critical to farming and created soil erosion problems. Inappropriate irrigation methods and the overdrafting of aquifers are other human processes degrading the region’s agricultural land. The deforestation plays an important role in Africa’s and North Africa’s economic status and an even more important role in the
The immediate cause is the removal of vegetation, the removal of vegetation happens due to a number of factors. Firstly too man live stock on too little land, this is called over grazing. Over grazing has led to a reduction in the remaining vegetation, the animals become desperate and resort to eating roots as well as leaves. The plants cannot recover and they die. The removal of crops to feed families and build on the land where the crops were.
Creating and enforcing environmental regulations would be economically disastrous for a poor country. The country is then forced to choose between buying food and having a clean environment. The former is always the more pressing concern. Rich Western countries often take advantage of the dilemma of Third World countries; they dump garbage and hazardous waste in developing countries. Plants, which emit considerable pollution, may also be built by First World countries in Third World nations to avoid the regulations the company would face at home (Dagger, 1994).
Most people would think that is not a good idea, but the reality is that corporate greed, devaluation of human life and the natural environment, economic oppression and other issues allow the systematic destruction of people and sacred lands. In most poor countries, creating and/or enforcing environmental regulations would be disastrous. It would mean, choosing between having a clean environment and buying food, and for a poor country, the answer, though not simple, is obvious. Rich, Western countries often take advantage of the dilemma Third World countries face; dump garbage and hazardous waste and even build plants in those countries that emit dangerous and/or toxic fumes causing even more pollution and health problems. These Western countries also avoid the regulations and restrictions they would face at home, so they go to Third World countries for their cheap labor and absent environmental regulations.
People were being constantly threatened by unsafe working conditions, long working hours, dirt, pollution, and infections. Government was finally forced to employ restrictions on businesses since people were questioning whether the businesses turned into completely self-regulatory money-making factories. However, since it was not possible for the employers to employ children as a cheap work force and had to provide care for the other workers, they tried to look for a solution elsewhere. Another problem was the fall of agriculture since almost all the work force moved to the industrial field. Thirdly, the lack of resources, or rather the high amount of expenses that had to be made in order to gain access to the resources created problems for manufacturers.