Blog #5- Food, Inc.

Have you ever thought about where the food you eat comes from? Does it even matter to you where your food is coming from? I never put much thought into it myself. I didn't really care where my food came from, all I really cared about, to be honest, was that it was yummy. That is until I watched this documentary called Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner (I posted a preview of the documentary above this paragraph). I have never watched a documentary that upset me as much as this one did. What stood out to me the most in this documentary was the condition of the animals and the environment that they were in. I was baffled by how the animals were being treated! I was so disgusted and angry by what I saw in this documentary that I had to stop watching it for a few minutes and so I could calm my nerves.

The fact that the animals are in such horrible conditions; standing belly deep in their own urine and feces, getting no medical help, and some don't even get to see day light the entire time they are alive is just plain evil! What I can't seam to wrap my head around is the fact that none of that is illegal. If I had chickens kept in the dark, surrounded by other dead chickens, and cows belly deep in feces and I'm not giving them proper medical attention; animal control would be at my door so fast, I wouldn't even have time to say "hi" before they put me in handcuffs and hauled me away to jail. But yet the big companies are getting away with it everyday!

I thought the government was suppose to protect us? But instead, they are allowing animals to be kept in these horrible conditions, which ultimately puts us humans in harms way because all the bacteria on these animals contaminate the meat that we get off of their bodies which is causing E-coli out breaks, that in some cases result in death (like the six-year-old boy in the documentary). I really don't understand why the slaughter houses don't let the animals roam free (to a certain point) because in my eyes it seams like the healthier way to go and it looks like it would be a lot cheaper than to build 'houses' and 'fencing' (like in the picture above). I think the animals would be happier being able to roam the land than being cooped up in a small building with hundreds upon thousands of other animals.

I think the problem is that people are seeing these animals as food instead of seeing them as live beings with feelings. Animals feel emotions such as sadness, loneliness, happiness, they get sick and hurt just like us humans. So why are they being treated like they aren't living, breathing things? We would be much better off, health wise if someone would step in an stop all of this in-humaneness because after all, the animal's health ultimately effects our health.










I hope that someday it will be more like this.                                                         And less like this.