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Why do we blame the government?

While reading a lot of my colleagues work, I've noticed a recurring pattern. It seems that almost all, if not everyone, thinks that all the blame deserves to be tossed on the government. That they are only after power and money so they are letting us pretty much rot. And don't get me wrong, I think there are some flaws with the way the government is handling some business. They aren't keeping the farms as sanitary as they should and they are not cleaning up enough. But I stand by the idea that the government is not entirely to blame. It is also the mistakes of the consumer that accounts for a portion of the issues we are talking about today. After all the research done, it appears that the biggest threat in bacteria and illness comes from a strand of E.Coli called O157:H7. After a little more browsing, a lot of the evidence states that the bacteria comes mostly from things like "raw, uncooked meat." Just like most bacteria, the bacteria is killed when properly cooked. Is it the government's job to cook our food for us? It isn't. Yes, they should do a better job cleaning the food but if the problem can be resolved with the food being put on the stove a little longer, then we don't have the right to put all the blame on the government. We aren't taking care of ourselves either it seems so we should take the time to learn about the bacteria. The general population blames the government for the entirety of the problem when we should consider the fact that we, as the consumer, are partially to blame too. And, not that this is the best of evidence, but I have eaten and seen a lot of others eat meat and never get sick from E.Coli or any bacteria for that matter. Seems legit.

Facts on E.Coli:
http://www.foodsafety.gov/poisoning/causes/bacteriaviruses/ecoli/
http://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/e_coli/fact_sheet.htm

MOOOOOOO! goes the cow !

Our breakfasts, lunch and dinner are pretty tasty huh? Well personally I cant enjoy my food as much knowing how much pain animals go through for us too eat. The cows are forced to eat corn which is something they cannot even digest "before they are transported to feedlots, where they are fattened on unnatural diets. Within six months, they reach market weight of 1,200 pounds and are trucked to slaughter" and on top of that they are stuck around small little stables with many other cows with no space to do anything but eat, sleep and poop. they stand in there feces all day waiting to get slaughtered because that seems to be all they are good for, And on top of that when these cows are slaughtered they have E. Coli in there system because of the corn being fed to them. But that doesn't stop food corporations from selling this meat to us as if it was healthy. The workers should have the decency to treat the cows how they should be treated, feed them the food they need to be healthy and can digest and give them clean places to stay.This will allow our food be safer and cleaner we wouldn't have to worry about what might be in our meat. WE CAN EAT WITH NO WORRIES!

(http://www.californiacowsarenothappy.com/how-cows-are-really-treated)

Phat Farm

Viewpoint : Ever wonder why when you eat a burger from McDonalds today you feel so bloated compared to a burger from 10 years ago? Well, it’s because of the hormones that they’re injecting into the animals that we eat to make them grow faster. This all has to deal with the supply and demand on our favorite food because when the demand is high but the supply if low the cost goes up, and big companies have to do something to make sure their food is getting out there. So for example when McDonalds customers want more Angus Burger the company has to find a way to make sure that they get more meat, lettuce and other things. This is problem for us because they’re chemically messing with our food and as a result chemically messing with our bodies.

According to an article in the huffingtonpost.com (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/hormones-in-food-should-y_n_815385.html) they discuss the growth of animals over the couple of years, and the fact that hormones in our food is bad.  In the article it said, “ … a salmon that grows to market size twice as fast as normal. Dairy cows that produce 15 percent more milk. Beef cows that grow 20 percent faster.”  This is actually crazy because of the fact that people are drinking milk, eating beef on the regular without actually knowing the effect of what’s going on with their bodies.  In addition, in the article it also said “ Thanks to injections and implants (in the case of cows) or genetic engineering (in the case of salmon), they contain artificially high levels of sex or growth hormones.” My question is that how is these hormones affecting the way how our children are being developed.

Fried chicken or fried cruelty ?

Many animals in the production of food are treated less than humanely. But the one that i will focus on is the chicken.  Chickens in my opinion is probably the most used animal for our food supply. Chickens are born every day just to be mistreated and killed for our food. Chickens have feelings too. but due to the stigma put by our society that chickens are okay to eat and they don't matter but something like a dog would be cruel to mistreat and eat is crazy. They're both animals and they both have feelings and should be treated as living things. But our country makes it seem that some animals are okay to mistreat but others it would be shameful to do. to me its shameful to mistreat any animal.

In a website based on the mistreatment of chickens in our making of poultry items to sell (http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_cruelty/chicken.htm) it says that "shortly after being born, the ends of their beaks are cut off, which is known as "debeaking." it also says that "Broiler chickens are genetically altered to grow a lot faster and produce more meat. These genetic alterations causes serious health problems for the animals. Their legs have trouble supporting their heavy bodies and their underdeveloped heart and lungs frequently result in congestive heart failure." So basically animals don't even get the chance at a full life. Their time is being rushed just to mass produce food. Even though as a country we waste so much food a day.

In another website by PETA, it says how KFC uses chickens that were mistreated in the way they were grown. The website states "KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious. It would be illegal for KFC to abuse dogs, cats, pigs, or cows in these ways." I believe any company that mistreats their animals to make their products should be shut down and not in production. You cant just treat living things any way you want to get ahead in life. That type of behavior shouldn't go unpunished.

--Samantha 'Seahorse' Tirado

With a cluck cluck here and a cluck cluck there!!

More is better than less because if there's more less stuff, then you might want to have some more. We want more, we want more! Well people today ask for bigger and better meat portions, so that's what our government is going to offer us. What most people don't know is how they made the chickens bigger and what the modern farms do to these poor chickens. Some people think that chickens are in farms and are well nurtured by farmers. When in reality, these chickens are treated without love and care. According to peta.org, "They are fed large amounts of antibiotics and drugs to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them. The antibiotics make chickens grow so large, so fast that they often become crippled under their own weight. This reckless use of antibiotics also makes drugs less effective for treating humans by speeding up the development of drug-resistant bacteria." Sad isn't it. Then the chickens are transfer to the slaughter house where they suffer pain. Making the chickens fat does give us the satisfaction of having a bigger meat portion, but is there any better solution that can work? Remember, "You are what you eat!" So whatever the chicken consumes, is what we consume. We eat chicken without knowing their actual background story. You know, chickens have lives to!!!! They don't deserve to be treated in that way!! 

Sodium is killing children!!!!

Sodium is known for making your heart beat fast. According to the New York times a women name Beth Dunn, the president of multimedia company is proud that she exposed her son to organic food to prevent his heart to beat fast from getting away from food with sodium. But what about everyone else that cannot afford or even exposed their children to organic food, What should they do? But studies had prove that parent that are over barring about their children diets are actually the one that are creating an unhealthy aura around food. Mainly because they are not exposed to other food beside organic food that will cause them to one do it when it is they are expose to unhealthy food. I think that a healthy diet for your child could be with  healthy and unhealthy food that will have them expose to them both without them totally lost when they are forced to handle the situation alone. What do you think?

Evidence: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/health/nutrition/26food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&