This weight gain is not necessary, it is just desired because cattle can be slaughtered at a younger age and more meat can be produced. Another huge ethical issue concerning mainstream red meat processing is the way the cattle are treated. They are often mistreated before slaughter, and are constantly mistreated while they are being “grown.” One example of the mistreatment is the confined spaces they are forced to live in. The spaces are small, unsanitary, and unnatural to the cattle, along with that they are constantly being fed, and have no room to move so they develop strange disabilities and deformities from living in such a confined
He continues by saying “We pigs are brain workers, the organization of the farm totally depends on us” (Orwell 42). Here Squealer puts the sake of the whole farm (and Animalism) on the pigs consuming the apples & milk. He uses the fear of Jones coming back to end the conversation. Squealer also uses guilt as a way to persuade the animals. When the other animals discover that the pigs have changed their residence to the farmhouse.
Michael Pollan suggests how industrial food system is unsustainable because of monocultures, which means a lot of the same species are grown together and that’s only possible by using antibiotics to keep them alive. To keep crop healthy, fertilizer is needed. For example, in Iowa, all the farms were corn and soybeans, which are for industrial use mainly. Separating the animals from the farms raises a huge sanitation problem and the animals are not happy with the conditions, a pollution problem occurs as well. Society is obsessed with productivity becoming cheap, which has made more problems regarding pesticides.
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.
Noah Taylor Jason Stanwood Gifted and Talented Science 7B March 1, 2012 Mad Cow Disease Makes You Not Want To Eat Meat In 1986, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease, was first diagnosed in Britain. Epidemiologists conducted studies that suggested that the source of BSE was contaminated cattle feed. Several cows became sick. Some suspect that they were fed sheep that were infected with Scrapie, a fatal disease that affects the nervous system. It took several years for the government to admit that humans could die from the infected cows.
Grandin did not agree with the methods used to slaughter cattle in the major meat-processing plants. She recognized that cattle, like some autistic people, exhibited signs of tremendous stress and anxiety when confronted by certain visual or audio clues (Temple Grandin Biography, 2006).The employees at the Arizona ranch put the cattle through tremendous stress when sending them through the line to their death, so much that some cattle would even tip over in anxiety and drown in the water as they were walking through. With this she developed a master’s plan to design a whole new system to send the cows through an obstacle course parse, to keep them under as little stress as possible as they were being dipped into the water. "We raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. Nature is cruel but we don’t have to be.
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.
In his article,” In defense of food “: Michael Pollen established “what is food” and why do American’s eat nonfood in such large quantities?” Definitely, I’m agree about food labels do provide enough information for consumers to make an informed choice about what to feed their bodies. However consumers do not pay attention of the food labels because they do not really know about it as long it’s delicious. Surely, most food provides food labels because it is a
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.
You still got all the nutrients and vitamins from foods that are not local. Plus they still taste good. If our community were to start a locavore movement it would affect everyone because we would have to make more space for crops and farmers. Also farmers from around the world would also have fewer costumers. As Source C shows, it actually takes just as much fuel—and thus, just as much pollution—to ship a small load from a local farm as to ship a large load from a farther location.