VEGGIE LIBEL LAWS / ANTIBIOTICS AND GROWTH HORMONES

VEGGIE LIBEL LAWS:
Food industry sued Oprah Winfrey because she not only dedicated one of her talk show topics on mad cow disease how cows are fed dead amimals which leads to mad cow disease which can kill us but she stated on her show that it stopped her from eating meat. The food industry decided to sue Oprah because she stopped a lot of profit for them. This started the veggie libel laws which gives the right to the food industry to sue any individual who speaks against the industry itself. These laws only apply in 13 states Alabama Arizona Colorado Florida Georgia Idaho Louisiana Mississippi north Dakota Ohio Oklahoma south Dakota and Texas.

 ANTIBIOTICS AND GROWTH HORMONES:
 European countries have made progress in reducing or eliminating the use of antibiotics in animal production. some European countries have banned the use of variety of antibiotics frequently used for people.

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CITED BIBLIOGRAPHY

"It is in the context of these qualities—qualities that constant interaction with animals make impossible to ignore—that the psychological "benefit" of factory farming becomes clear. Its impersonal, highly rationalized structure is designed to protect those involved from the emotional consequences of killing" (McWilliams). The killing of these animals is not considered murder because these corporations sugar coat the reality of what it really is.

McWilliams, James "The Dangerous Psychology of Factory Farming." The Atlantic.
Aug 24 2011, 10:49 AM http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/08/the-dangerous-psychology-of-factory-farming/244063/  

BLOG FIVE: THE CAFO SYSTEM

To me, human and animal life means nothing to the CAFO system. the animals are breed to be nothing but waist and food. Humans are treated like crap , they hire illegal immigrants who were falsed advertised into thinking that they will recieve a better life in the U.S, when really they come into factory farming life making less then minimum wage and they struggle to get by. The workers get drugs from there bosses only to work harder and when the animals are fed and then slaughtered whatever gets sent to the stores we eat and in the long run pay for it all.  The system organizes life artificially I say artificially because it's made, it's fake not organic. Through steroids antibiotics and steady streams of subsidized industrial feeds our food is made. I believe the organization of this doesn't matter 50 years ago we didn't have factory farming the way it is now and we were perfectly fine. The mass production of factory farming evolved into what I call murder. There is no right way to slaughter an animal pack it up and ship it off to a deli or supermarket but there is noway I can say getting joy out of abusing these animal slaughtering them with joy is not murder. Abusing the animals is one thing eventually they are put down and sent off but when they are alive waiting to be executed and just fed there daily steroids and food to get bigger the conditions of this life pays a price on us. The animals get sick ecoli can get through there systems and when we buy this meat and we eat it we can get sick and we will die there is no cure for ecoli. This system is corrupt there are no good things that come out of it. Animals get slaughtered physically they are in a prison waiting there execution when d-day comes thats the end of the road for them. Us humans get slaughtered mentally with hardworking labor drug addiction and bad income takes a toll. Both animals and humans pay a price for the system, a life threatening one.

BLOG FOUR: FARM TO FRIDGE AT LAGUARDIA

     The contents of the video was to show viewers what we are not suppose to know about our food. In the video it showed us the mistreatment of our meat poultry and dairy. I seen workers snapping the birds necks sticking them in garbage bags to suffocate. I seen workers cutting off cows tails the killing of cows also how piglets are castrated and many thrown against the floor to be killed. The contents of the video connect with my video project by the harsh treatment the animals go through. My video project is basically statistics on whether or not a student will pay more for an organic burger rather then a processed one and if the student is aware that there is no organic food within walking distanced of laguardia. The video shows factory farming it shows the harsh treatment our "food" goes through to get to our fridges. The dirty conditions that our food is in before it comes to us. I feel that the video helps to inform the students were interviewing what factory farming is what processed food is and also gives them a dose of reality when they watch the video, makes them open their eyes the way it made me open my eyes.

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The End Of Overeating

             Kessler goes into detail about the significance between sweets and fats is to drugs."The breaking point at which the animals will no longer work for the reward, she told me, is slightly lower than the breaking point for cocaine (Kessler, Chap.6, page.31)." this quote shows that sweets fats many food products are addictive like drugs can be. this quote is very important because it shows us the reader that processed food although artificial is bad for us and if we banned drugs we can ban sweets and fats. many people in America are obese and they are obese because they eat a lot of sweets and fats they are addicted to certain foods that are unhealthy for them. food is obese peoples drug.

CONTRADICTION

In the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, chapter 8 describes the slaughterhouses. Throughput is fast speed labor but fast is dangerous. there is a contradiction that Schlosser assumes that the slaughterhouse companies assume they call themselves safe but we don't know if that is fact. this is fast speed labor Schlosser writes "today some plants slaughter up to 400 cattle an hour"(Schlosser 173). we know for a fact that this throughput labor has its flaws with injuries at this speed. I would say that this corporation does own up to the injuries and they don't hide it. Schlosser is contradicting that the slaughterhouse companies are calling themselves safe but it is never stated that the slaughterhouse's call themselves safe.