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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Jana - Melina's Blog

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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.

Survival of the fittest

Jana Tellez

Eng. 101

Monday, September 26/27, 2011

Ken Monfort stated explaining although he lost to the Supreme Court he gained $270 million in stock when ConAgra asked him to become a top executive, he became a part of what he tried to prevent. “There should be at least three large players instead of just two” (Schlosser 158). He joined them after he realized he couldn’t beat them. Monfort tried to beat the courts but couldn’t so he took the money and job position offered to him by ConAgra instead of receiving nothing.  Ken Monfort became a hypocrite. He became a hypocrite because all this time he was pointing the finger at the two merging companies and in the end after losing he figured he can win by accepting the deal with ConAgra. Money can change a person’s perspective, Monfort joined the two merging companies when he realized he lost the battle but gained because he became a part of what he tried to prevent. The second he was offered a large amount of stock he was not hesitant to change his views. Ken Monfort would become a very rich man like the two company owners would when they merged and he figured if they can get why can’t I? So he did except ConAgra’s deal.  Survival of the fittest! Monfort switched sides thinking of himself and his well being.

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        The relationship between food corporations and corporate food workers is poor and displeasing. In the book "Fast Food Nation" Eric Schlosser explains that fast food companies allow de-skilled teenagers work for them because they don't know any better these kids are coming from working class families who have one thing on their mind MONEY!  The teenagers settle for the little bit of money they will make in the fast food companies and they will do this because they are vulnerable inexperienced children who really don't know any better. Schlosser says "Fast food kitchens often seem like a scene from Bugsy Molone, in which all the actors are children pretending to be adults"(Schlosser,68). We have children working in these fast food companies in reality to compare the movie to the film makes sense. This is meaningful because if you picture the scene from the film you may giggle while picturing it, but this is what it is, this is whats going on in the fast food industries. we have children inexperienced they don't know any better the only thing they see is money and the one place they can get money from is working at a fast food place because the fast food companies aim for the children and they aim for the children to work for them because they don't know any better.

MY SECOND DRAFT - POV, FOOD INC. ERIC SCHLOSSER

JANA TELLEZ

ENG 101

TITLE: SECOND DRAFT POV FOOD INC ERIC SCHLOSSER

The relationship between food corporations and corporate food workers is poor and displeasing. Eric schlosser witnessed firsthand the conditions our factory workers go through to be abused and underpaid. The work environment these men and woman have to endure for less than minimum wage is sad and it shows us firsthand how vulnerable these people are. If you think of it these are big food corporations they make millions every day and these poor workers go through hell to make nothing. If you think of it these big corporations are taking advantage of these people who they know are illegal and they need them. But what would these big food corporations be without these people?

The majority of the workers are vulnerable immigrants who don’t have a voice to speak of what goes on. Schlosser explains that the workers are underpaid and are physically, mentally abused on a daily basis.  Strawberries are very popular but what many do not know is that a lot of time and effort goes into getting it to the supermarkets. Each strawberry have to be handpicked one by one you have to be delicate and you have to have a lot of patience. Strawberries are grown on farms and you need hundreds of workers to be out on the farms every day rain or shine. Eric schlosser said that he seen that the hard labor is exhausting and it’s even worse when you know at the end of the day you make a little money.

Woman are sexually abused, harassed, touched these woman go through it every day.  Men talked down to its sad because they are human just like anyone else it should not be allowed. . In 1991 a woman finally spoke up and was given 2.4 million dollars by the federal jury she explained that men were allowed to rub themselves and scream absentees at her  while the supervisor’s watched and laughed.(FAST FOOD NATION 175-176 by: Eric Schlosser) Schlosser states that the supervisors tend to be in late twenties early thirties and each one is like a dictator on their high horse. The power they think they have over the people is pathetic.  in some cases woman at times have a consensual relationship with their supervisor for marriage a green card and freedom even to transfer to a new plant.

What these men and woman go through on a daily basis no one should have to go through. Eric Schlosser summed it up the way these vulnerable people live is rough. We worry about what we’re going to eat on a daily basis but what we don’t think about is how our food got to you, every time you eat a strawberry think about the life of the person who picked that strawberry underpaid rough abused it’s you pay these big corporations for the food but majority of that goes straight to the corporation not the man or woman behind the strawberry.