Saturday, March 13, 2010

Wow! it's been about forty eight hours passed and I'm still in shock of what I have seen in the film that we watched in my English class. Thanks to my professor Dr. Lizzie Mc.Cormick for opening my eyes on what I'm cooking next at home or even eating in general.
Supermarkets carry over 47,000 products. The industry doesn't want us to know the truth on what your eating, because if you did, you might not want to eat it. For example, tomatoes are first green then their ripened with gas in order to become red. I had no clue of this. Lots of animals are being abused just so that they can get food that they need to sell to supermarkets, so we can buy and eat. The first restaurant came about in the 1930's. The workers were payed very little because they were only trained to do one thing, which was to flip the burgers. By the time the 1970's came about they were the top five beef packers and controlled 80% of companies. We now eat meat who are reproduced by these companies. Today farmers no longer control the bird. All birds must be the same size coming off of the farm. Birds are being slaughtered. Antibiotics are put into the feed to kill any bacteria in the chicken. Carol Contract, a farmer who was honest enough to be filmed. So we saw the process on how it works as far as the chicken business. Other companies such as, Perdue and Tyson declined on being filmed. Maybe they weren't doing the right thing. Maybe their minds were set on if you can grow a chicken and get one in forty nine days, why want one every three months. They might have made a bigger and quicker profit this way. Unfortunately Carol refused to upgrade and raise chickens in a dark house, so she was terminated. Thirty percent or our land basis is planted by corn. It has conquered the world for many years. Corn can be used for many purposes. Such as for, corn syrups and absorbic acids. Larry Johnson says this food is engineered so it keeps from getting stale. Cows are fed corn so that they get fat quicker and it's also much cheaper. When in reality they should be eating grass. Ammonia has also become a processing tool to try and kill bacteria in your food. A food that is cleansed with this chemical is none another than the hamburger. Our food system has been skewed to bad calories because it's very cheap to buy. One in every three minorities that was born after the year 2000 will become in contact with diabetes. Some bacteria that can be found in your food without you being aware can be, ecoli or even salmonella. Your peanut butter can have salmonella in it,or even ecoli may be found in food such as, spinach, juice and even meats. We have more technology being utilized, but food is still being contaminated. As for a family who went on a vacation back in July,2001. When they bought their little son Kevin a hamburger, twelve days later he would be dead. He was diagnosed with ecoli and his kidneys failed on him. Just from eating a hamburger. They now have a Kevin's law, but food is still out there not processed or grown in the right manner. A shock that i came across, was not knowing that some foods we eat consist of some diesel oil. Is this right? Doesn't this harm person in some type of way? Why are farmers or companies being allowed to continue this crime? Why aren't they being penalized for this? Money isn't everything. Maybe if a tragedy happens to one of their closest family members, maybe then it can change. Food can be handled in the right way. But then it's too late for that individual who has experienced the act of being food poisoned. I wish that this can stop and they can step back and think not only are they harming animals but innocent people who were hungry and just needed to eat.

4 comments:

  1. Its is only us who can stop it. Everyone should stand against this and government should take action . Its time to raise curtains from their ugly truth.

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  2. Yea..i am agree with you..its a really horrible things..But we need to wake up now..if we will die slowly by eating this type of food.

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  3. Janet,

    I was also horrified to learn that the tomatoes we eat are mostly manipulated with gasses to seem ripe! Gross!

    You mention so many good points from the movie. However, there's not diesel oil in the food - they just use a ton of diesel oil to move everything around the world (i.e. the trains full of corn, etc.) which guzzles a lot the world's gas!

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  4. Like you, my question also,why farmers and companies are allowed to continue to this crime? why they are not being penalized? youmention lot of issues from thie movie.

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