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I find it so disturbing the way animals are being treated from being raised, to the slauter house, to our plates. But its all business isn't it? It seems like companies main priority is to find a way to make cheep and fast chicken for a greater profit. Watching Food Inc. really opened my eyes to it. They show the chickens all copped up, lined up like a school of fish but worse. They die right next to each other, they walk around in there own feces, and they don't even get sunlight. I know that it is important for humans to get sunlight so what about another animal that generally lives outside? When do big businesses stop cutting corners and make quality meat that will make us healthy. It shouldn't be all about the money. When are they going to stop dressing up dead chickens in business suits, this should be about more than that.
Question:I wonder what is going to happen to us later in life if we keep eating this food that they are mistreating?
Evidence:http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming.aspx
http://www.aspca.org/Fight-Animal-Cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty/birds-on-factory-farms
--Raquel
I do agree with you that chicken should be treated better than they do now because they eventually gets eaten by us. All the bacteria comes with the meat is being prepared by the people and consumed by the people. I guess this should be counted as indirect self-inflicted pain and unhealthiness. But living in a country that believes strongly about capitalism and money driven, its hard to find the balance between food and money. If we were to give up money in order for the food to be prepared the right way, the people there's nothing that will keep the money-driven people from sneaking something into the food in order to devalue it to earn something. The demand for meat is very high in the united states, and it's very hard to find the balance between demanding for big breast meat on the chicken and treating the animals comfortably before they are consumed.
ReplyDelete"SCIENTISTS at the Food and Drug Administration systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics."
useful source:
- http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/slaughterhouses.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/antibiotics-and-the-meat-we-eat.html?_r=0
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ReplyDeleteGreat connections to gov and econ.
Raquel,
ReplyDeleteObvious connections here to economics. I would love to hear more about this idea of big businesses "cutting corners".
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I completely agree with animals being mistreated and "cutting corners". In the movie food inc. a farmer said that why would i grow a animal for a year when i could do it for 6 months. They feed animals corn such as cows, chickens,pigs,etc. The fact that the farmers don't grow the animals the right way gives citizens different kinds of diseases like mad cow disease, gives foodborne illness,Bovine Leukemia, E-coli,etc. These can be pretty dangerous and the way that the animals are being treated is pretty disgusting walking in each others feces, dead bodies,etc.
ReplyDelete"Abstract: Many emerging infectious diseases in human populations are associated with zoonotic origins. Attention has often focused on wild animal reservoirs, but most zoonotic pathogens of recent concern to human health either originate, or are transferred to, human populations from domesticated animals raised for human consumption
Piece of evidence: http://are.berkeley.edu/~dwrh/Docs/EcoHealth_2009.pdf
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DeleteI agree with the fact that animals are being mistreated. In Peta.org explains why people should not eat chicken but have more awarness of what is actually going into the chicken. That is going into our system.
ReplyDeleteAn example is "Chickens raised for their flesh are packed by the thousands into massive sheds. 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". Show that chicken was raised a certain way so that the companies will sell chicken to the people that are bigger.
Piece of Evidence is
Deletehttp://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/top-10-reasons-not-to-eat-chickens.aspx
Viewpoint: Big Businesses use undocumented workers to work there factories. They are easy to get rid of, they won't speak out against the company for fear of be being deported, and they work for cheep money. Under these circumstances it would be easy to hide any wrong doings because the workers don't have a choice on not to speak out. Big industries also don't provide proper medical treatment to animals. For example, workers are trained to just throw pigs across the room and this causes broken bones and open wounds for the pigs. This leaves the door open for infections and even death, which isn't good for the food we ingest. Undocumented workers and no medical care for animals are just two ways that big meat industries cut corners. And i'm sure there are many more ways too.
ReplyDeleteEvidence: http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/06/spam-factory-conditions
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/06/meat-industry-abuse-not-just-workers
Comment Score: 20/20
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