Do you realize were your food is coming from?

The last two days in class we watched a film called “Food Inc.”. This film is so persuading that I have not been able to eat any type of meat for three days know. The topic about where food comes from and the harms it can have on you really interests me. I have grown up in a home with nothing but nutritional food. I thought I knew close to everything I could about the food that we eat, but this film showed me that there was still a lot to learn. I had an idea that our meat is not as fresh as they claim it is, and that animals are not treated like they should be, but what surprised me is to what extent the food we eat really is contaminated and how it’s received in cruel ways.

 

I started to think, what disgusted me more, the unsanitary conditions of the animals and packing plants, or how the people and the animals were treated. And honestly I found myself more disgusted at how the people and animals were treated. The chickens never saw light and they were injected with grow hormones, so that even with the short life they did have it made it a miserable one. And the people working in the meat packing plants were treated exactly like slaves. Their conditions were horrible and their jobs were restless because of doing the same thing over and over again for days upon days. And all of this work was done with very little pay.

 

Something that really interested me was that a large reason people have very unhealthy diets is because since unhealthy food is cheaper it is what is bough by those with less money, therefore the poor people don’t have much of a chance to be healthier. It should not be this way, if unhealthy food was more expensive and healthy food was cheaper it would be a whole lot easier to be a healthy person. But because unhealthy meat is made so rapidly, it is what most of the population eats, and in return the companies make a huge profit. 

 

It’s amazing how fooled we are into believing what they say about how our food comes from a nice farm, where really our food comes from machines. It also comes from hormones, and torture.

 

I believe every person and animal should be treated with respect, I get that we need the animals to be eventually killed for food, but I don’t think we need to give them such a cruel life before we kill them. If we just expanded the land that the animals lived on and let them grow up naturally without hormones then the animals would be way heather, which would be less cruel to them and heather for us to eat. We need to start caring about our heath, and these mass corporations are not helping us by feeding us what could be considered fake meat.

 

If we all started getting our meat from farms that we knew treated the animals correctly and didn’t add fake crap to the food then the world would be changed for the better, the mass producers of meat would realize that we want the real stuff, and they would met our demands.  The companies don’t control us, we control them. Like they said in the film, if we show what we want they will do what will make them money, even if that’s treating the animals, our food, better. As well as treating the employees better.  

 

I have learned how important it is to read labels and to know about what I’m eating because I care enough to know what is right and wrong for me. I will continue to eat what I believe in, not what has a chance of harming me. (638)