Some
people in the world are completely oblivious to how we get the things
we eat. For instance chicken, I bet a lot of people are not aware of how
chicken is brought to our plates before it reaches the grocery store.
In huge factories with big machines where the baby chicks are sorted by
gender, the female chicks are sent away to farms and the male chicks are
sent to their immediate death where they are grounded up with no
anesthetic. The female chicks get sent to farms where they are overfed
and drugged then sent to another factory to be slaughtered and processed
to be consumed by the people of America. The male chicks are sadly
grounded up alive to be sold to various food places. I feel like this
should not be done I feel like the factories and people in charge can
have something more humane done like maybe give the chickens anesthetic
or not even ground the male chicks up in the first place.
-Iyona L.
I totally agree. Most of us are oblivious about how we get the things we eat. Sometimes i don't know whats worse , the process of which the meat is handled or the drugs and chemicals used to preserve or enlarge them . Steroids are given to the animals so that they are a abnormally large size before they are slaughtered (hyper productive animals) . The FDA actually regulates use of hormones like steroids . According to the huffingtion post there has been studies done that claim that because of the hormones put in the meat we eat girls are going through early puberty, its contributing to cancer and other health issues. Clearly this is something that should raise eyebrows . I guess the FDA doesn't care as much as everyone likes to believe they do .
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ReplyDeleteWhat connections can be made to government and economics? What do you think should be done about this issue? The post illustrates your viewpoint that it is a problem but you do not suggest how the government should address/is addressing it.
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I for one know how the food is brought to my plate. I learn in Government just as you did. Given the chickens steroids is illegal, but it is still happening in the US. Or how the men are just slaughtered for meat right away. An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor. Our food isn't treated like it should be treated. In the undercover video the male chicks are being thrown into a grinding machine alive. That is bad for us and the germs from the chickens go into the meat and it's just really nasty from my point of view.
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1) http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_chicken_wings.htm
2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/chicks-being-ground-up-al_n_273652.html
Gross.
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VIEWPOINT: I completely agree with this, Its horrible that farm animals especially chickens have to go through a bit of torture before they actually killed and processed. It may be to much to say that they shouldn't kill chickens at all because it's the way of life but to put them through pain first is not okay. PETA did a private investigation to see if and how the chickens were being treated and they found workers caught on video stomping on chickens, kicking them, and violently slamming them against floors and walls. Workers also ripped the animals' beaks off, twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-painted their faces, and squeezed their bodies so hard that the birds expelled feces—all while the chickens were still alive. I'm pretty sure those aren't ways to make our chicken taste better or a process before killing them, workers are taking it into their own hands to harm chickens for absolutely no reason.That is and will never be okay. But what are we trying to do to stop it ?
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@ Iyona Should we even be aloud to feel bad since that is the food we eat ?
This is an extremely cruel practice that it used everyday to violently kill millions of male chicks because these slaughterhouses and companies believe male chicks have no value. In Government + Economics, I learned that this is because male chicks don't produce eggs or develop large breast meat (which is the meat of choice in america and many other countries). According to telegraph.uk, male chicks are thrown into electronic grinders or gassed to death with carbon monoxide immediately after being hatched. They are murdered as soon as they have had the chance for their first breath simply because of their sex.
ReplyDeleteA way to protest against the cruel treatment of male chicks is to limit or all together end the use of eggs or chicken in our household. Use substitution eggs or vegan meat to protest this horrible practice.
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