While browsing through documentaries on Netflix, I came across one titled Food Inc. It immediately grabbed my attention with a dairy cow that instead of black blotches had a bar code as shown below.
The picture caught my attention #1 because of how strange it looks. #2 is I have thought a lot about how people know very little about where their food comes from. As some of you might already know, I trap raccoons in the fall, and I do this for their fur. Once I obtain a raccoon I need to skin it, a process less than pleasant. my theory is that if people had to process their own meat, they wouldn’t eat it. As I watched this eye-opening documentary I wanted to be the only one to process my meat! While an unpleasant thing to do regardless, I would be able to ensure the quality and safety of my meat. This documentary shows how our chickens and cows are raised, and the conditions in which they are harvested.The most unnerving thing about how our food is produced is not how the animals are treated, but rather how the multimillion dollar companies treat the farmers. They treat them as you would another one of the animals, or a machine; by trying to get the most out of them with having to give the littlest. This means that companies like Tyson, Smithfield and many others pay their farmers very little, and at the same time changing regulations in order to keep the farmers under their control. In the case of chicken farmers this means that they need to go into vast amounts of debt in order to purchase the chicken houses required by Tyson and stay in debt to meet the upgrade requirements. In short I highly recommend the film to anyone who wants to become informed about the food that they are eating.
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