Wednesday, April 10, 2013
McDonald's Makes Hamburgers?
I knew that the food industry was just that, industrialized. I did not know to what extent that it had become now, but the Food Inc. video shed a very bright light on a very dark area. I realize that there are quotas to meet and orders to fill, but to what extent can we allow things to go? I believe that this "line" of moral and ethical boundaries has already been crossed. The farmer in the documentary who is sticking it to the corporations that are running with these practices is exactly right when he says that the people making the decisions thousands of miles away can cut a certain cost and move something somewhere else because they do not live with the consequences that in some cases can be dire. I was baffled at the statistic that showed people only spend a minuscule amount of their income on food with other expenditures that are nowhere near necessities trumping such a vital part of life. The worst part about the documentary in my opinion was the inhumane acts from large chicken suppliers to the chickens. I think it is completely wrong to basically turn a regular chicken into what looked like an Easter marshmallow peep candy when you put it in the microwave. The science behind this should not be going toward things like bigger chickens faster, but to re-allocate that money to be able to have human chicken houses and pay/treat your employees a lot better.
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Dylan Miller
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