Thursday, May 9, 2013

Mystery Meat Being Mysteriously Mysterious

In more recent years it has been found that feeding farm animals corn is more more affordable than feeding them food that's actually designed for their bodies. Genetics asks for cows to graze on grass but farmers are being taught to feed them corn. Why not? According to Food Inc., the government gives money to produce more corn than what is needed. Why waste money on making farm land available for cows to graze as they please when there's all this extra corn to feed these animals? When corn fed to cows doesn't digest properly the cows get sick and they develop a type of e.coli called 157H7. So now everyone that eats that cow will become sick. But it's not as if the e.coli stops there. Since cows don't get the opportunity to roam and eat, farmers keep them in a small cramped space where they pretty much live in their waste. In the movie Food Inc. it's shown that the farm land for cows is in areas in which trees were dug up to fit the cows. When land is destroyed like that, it can't protect itself and when it rains it'll flood. So that e. coli that the cow's infected with? It's in its waste and that waste gets washed away in rain water that eventually leads to a larger water source. And then that water might wash up on some healthy cabbage or tomatoes. Now people that eat those vegetables have e. coli. Whoever eats any of those cows have e. coli. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. I understand that it's cheaper to feed cows corn. That's great it's good for the economy. Double great because corn makes cows fat and fat cows means more meat being sold and who doesn't love the sound of a more money? But is it really fair that these cows are sick and then people that eat them are sick? Is it fair that people don't even have to eat the meat to get sick? Come on USDA. You guys are in charge of everything that involves meat from when they're babies to when they go on people's plates. Somebody do something.

6 comments:

  1. I agree that this is a serious problem due to the fact that this is affecting our nutritious meals and health. Indeed its upsetting to know that FDA officials aren't stopping these people/farmers from letting them feed the animals corn. It's also upsetting to know that if the menuir is getting on the other crops, thats just telling me that the farmers aren't cleaning after the animals and as insanitary as that sounds, its troubling to think that our meals aren't being taken care of.
    So like from the video we saw in class, those animals werent being cared for nor cleaned up after. Some of those cows collapsed and were close to dying and no one cared about that. Sure they acknowledged that it was wrong but i guess money speaks louder then pleas.

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  2. The way we process food is disturbing. Don't get me wrong i love to eat meat, but all of this that is going on with our food all has a down hill effect i agree with you guys. In the vicious cycle described by Bacchus i ask, when does it all end? Before we know it we will all get sick weather we eat meat or not. Explained by Lisa :). This isn't accurate but i think that if we don't fix this in time future generations are going to pay for this including future animal generations.

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  3. I agree with you Bacchus. I dislike the elusiveness of the meat factories. Most of the time, they will put that their meat is 100 percent natural. At first, I thought it was silly to do that, however, they do have the right to put whatever they want in front of the label. It is our job to figure out what goes on in the meat. But that job is nearly impossible to accomplish, simply because of the secretiveness of the meat factories.

    I've also had a first person experience with the quality of meat when I was going to eat a Whopper from Burger King, and the meat looked like it was made with smushed peas.I have also found an article that connects to what you have said in your post:
    http://www.naturalnews.com/011148_processed_meat_meats.html
    Here's the McDonald's website to take a look at how they market their products:
    http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/home.html

    Here's a question for you:

    Do you think that the government should no longer rely on monopolized meat companies, and instead give licenses to local farmers in different states?

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  4. Post Score: 27/30

    Bacchus, what do you think they should actually DO?

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