Cassandra Wood Professor Moton English B1A: Online 24 April 2015 Week 14 Project Thesis: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) practice abusive treatment towards animals to produce low cost food for financial gains, while these conditions pose a threat to animals, humans and the environment, consumers should boycott all industrialized meat and support their local free range farms until the CAFO’s starts practicing healthy humane farming. Outline: I. Introduction A. Factory farms are abusive to animals B. Factory farms are dangerous to the environment C. Factory farms are dangerous to humans health D. Thesis II.
Mad Cowboy This book was enlightening to say the least for me being a devout meat eater for the past Forty-eight years I was completely caught off guard as to how server the problem really is today. The way we treat other creatures is unbelievable and we call ourselves civilized, it’s almost as bad as how we treated the African people. We took them from their homeland and forced them to our hard labor for us all the while treating like they were our property rather than human beings. There are a lot of similarities in how we treat our cattle and the way we treated the black race. Once I started to read this book it gave me a new perspective on what I eat but not just that it also game me a new outlook on animals in general and how we treat
Although Sinclair’s investigation tells a story of the toll the meatpacking industry took on families nearly a hundred years ago, he still offers insight into the deceiving side of America’s food corruptions. Both writers brilliantly offer realization and awareness in their books that will benefit anyone who reads them to make better decisions daily. The description of the factory farming slaughterhouses in both books is enough to send chills down almost anyone’s spine; The Jungle opens with the cruel tactics, yet Fast Food Nation did not mention the slaughterhouses until midway. As Jurgis and his family tour the packinghouse where he will be working as a shoveler,(shoveling blood and guts) they first see what seems to be millions of cows. There are rail yards that carry the cattle to the slaughterhouse where the mechanics of the process are awe-inspiring.
Meatless Monday’s is an extremely controversial movement. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initially showed support for this cause by stating in an internal newsletter that “The production of meat, especially beef, has a large environmental impact. According to the U.N., animal agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gases and climate change. It also wastes resources. It takes 7,000 kg of grain to make 1,000 kg of beef.
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
In the documentary they showed an example of a family that cant afford healthy food because the price of this foods are too expensive for them to buy with their budget. The father of this family was already having health problems because he was taking medicine for his diabetes he had acquired from eating junk food. Many Americans are suffering from overweight problems because instead of consuming healthy calories they are doing the opposite. In another part of the documentary it showed, how immigrants that are working for these companies were being hunted down by immigration in their own houses. The bad part is that both the meat packaging companies and immigration knew that this people were illegals, but they still kept hiring them and letting them work for a while in there companies.
One of those reasons would be that President Roosevelt read the novel “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. The book depicts the horrors of the Chicago meat industry. Another reason is that there were many occurrences of food poisoning resulting in death. The Federal Meat Inspection Act contains many purposes that ensure the health of the consumer. It detects and destroys diseased meat before it gets to the buyer.
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.
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.
This take over has been aided by none other than the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More and more they are coming down with strenuous and tedious regulations that don’t make the food safer, just procedures that make it difficult for the farmer who is trying to grow more pure food. They make it so hard for anyone except a Mega Farmer to produce because they require such a large number of crops and animals to be processed in a short length of time as Joel stated in the Omnivore’s Delimma. (Pollan,2006) Just because a group produces more, doesn’t mean they produce better. There is also a direct correlation between the amount of money these farmers contribute to politicians, as to how much hassle is taken in by the farmers.