Javed but hey see Gregory for more information

STRENGTHEN AND ENFORCE EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS (324): Government fails once again to do its job.
-          Companies now self-regulate themselves
-          There are also no routine inspections. This leads to terrible working environment for workers. Mainly because, a company needs constant and routine inspections for them to maintain safer working environments and treat workers accordingly. Routine checkups
-           Keep companies aware that they are being monitored and need to maintain a certain standard at the workplace.
-         Government is not providing enough money to the right people, and towards the right places to enforce existing laws that protect both the environment and human health.

WAYS IN WHICH THE LAWS CAN BE STRENGHTEN & REINFORCED 3(25).
-          MORATORIUMS ON FACTORY FARMS( limiting harmful activities that take place)
-          A proper air pollution approach to ensure that the air that we breathe is not contaminated.
-          Of course treating sewage problems which can cause major land air and water pollution to the environment, destroying the homes of millions of animals, while sickening people.
-          Allocating funding to the right people for more appropriate reason.
-          Clean water- everyone needs clean water, diseases can be spread rapidly through water, and the home and lives of much sea life can be destroyed.
-          Regulating greenhouse gases causing. PUTTING A STOP TO THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF the harmful gases that penetrate our planet.

Javed & Gregory's findings!

THE VEGGIE LIBEL LAWS(320): The freedom of speech is diminished and food companies have the “right” to sue other companies and other individuals within the thirteen states(Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North& South Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.) due to the law that allows persons within these states to file lawsuits and sue others.  For example in a 1996 episode of Oprah’s talk show, she said “It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger” (Tomaselli, Niles 320). Stating her opinion on her talk show due to the way she felt she was hit with a lawsuit from a company.  Therefore, companies have more power over society than the government over its own people.

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION(322): Establishing a controlled ecological environment, while trying to manage air pollution levels and maintain and reduce the pollution within society due to the CAFO& factory farm system. Agriculture has become one of the main contributors to the climate change and creation of greenhouse gases. The result of the waste being produced by the animals, society is at stake.

CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO PASSAGES: Although the Factory Farming system is polluting the people along with the environment, the people have no right to protect themselves against the monstrosity. The government neither feels it mandatory to protect its people while completely ignoring the bill of rights.

Javeds NEW& IMPROVED citation & annotation!

''You really feel like a failure,'' says Charles Boehmke, 44, who is clinging to his Minnesota farm after losing his animals and machinery because he could not repay a $136,000 loan. One of his neighbors, David Honsey, 40, filed for bankruptcy and said it made him feel like going into the barn and ''doing something you shouldn't do there.'' He has since rejected thoughts of suicide, deciding ''there is a higher power than the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. But I think they'll find a few farmers in the barn rafters before this is over." (Boyce, Jackson, Magnuson and Winbush 32).

"Many farmers admit that they plunged too heavily into debt in the heyday of the 1970s, planting their fields from fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do." (Boyce, Jackson, Magnuson and Winbush 32).

Boyce, Joseph N. Jackson, David S. Magnuson, Ed. Winbush, Don. “Cover stories clinging to the land: hard-pressed farmers face a crisis of mounting debts and dropping prices.” Time 125.7 (2/18/85):32. Magazine

My source basically states that due to the huge debts farmers are confronted with, suicide becomes their only option. Also, this source also reveals that farmers are advised by authorized persons on how to run their businesses, and in the end the same authorized persons take away their business. This supports my perspective on how the CAFO system is non-beneficial to biosphere.

Something I did in High School! tell me what you think

Alabaster Ferreros
        Final thought"
               -Javed Najhafeez
    "Hey babe, i'm about to get on the train, i'll see you in a few...okay bye, love you" I said to my wife as i hung up the phone to run for my train. It was around eight on that tuesday night and the skies were a rusty colour brown shade. I swiped my metro card swiftly as I stood at the middle of the platform. Fanning myself with the file I brought home from work, to work on, I began to look left for the "F", that was nowhere in sight. Walk it I thought, but it was a bit too far. I began to debate with myself, as my thoughts became interrupted by two boys, who looked like teenagers maybe seventeen, maybe eighteen, skipping the turnstiles and giving me a threatnig look.
    Trying desperatly to occupiy my time, I began to play with the coins in my pocket. My palms were beginning to become sweaty so i took them out and began to bite  my nails nervously, as  İ glanced to look for the train. Soon, my attention was diverted as i saw two dark shadows approaching me. Putting up a defence, any type of defence at all, I quickly push my hands in my pockets and pretended so much to be cool. The fully detailed identities of the two objects began to move themselves as they were about three to five footsteps away from where İ was standing.
    "Mister, you got the time?" the short boy said as he looked at the other boy smiling. "8:37" I said raising my eyebrows and turning away, just hoping they would leave quietly.
    In a matter of seconds, I felt a hand around my neck and one digging in to my right side pants pocket. " Shuttup old man. You better not scream" the tall boy commanded silently as he held a jagged nife blade against my throat. As the short boy dug into my pocket in a rough manner, pushing me against the zinc the boys began to question me with the knife: " where is your wallet, take it out, give me the money and take your watch off as well and matter of fact give me your phone too". Moving the knife  and pressing it with force, against my rib cage.
    As the short boy went to pick my back pocket this time, my savior came after thirty  minutes. As I looked to my left i saw in the distance coming around the curve  a green circle, coming towards me, with full force and a harh racket that always hurt my ear drums. However, not this time, this time i welcomed the sound. I realized that this was my only way out, this was my oppertunity to break free and i had to make use of every second of this oppertunity. I knew if I didn't I would have a little to no chance of survival.
    I tried to stall them as much as possible, pretending to go for my wallet slowly. My chance of escaping was so close I could literlly tasted it. The train screeched to a halt as the passengers flocked the platform like ants around sugar. I acted quickly, i had no choice. I kicked the short one along the platform and  body slammed the tall boy as he fell to the floor. I looked left nor right, I just aimed for the wooden door with the vandalized glass. Knocking it open and bumrushing my way through the passengers  all the way to the bottom of the stircase. I ran without a care in the world. I completely disreguarded the fact that all my papers had been scatterd all over the platform. The only thing on my mind, was the boys actually picking up the papers and finding out information about my job, matter of fact finding out where i worked. After running a block or two from the train station i stopped for a quick break.
    " Old man, we will get you, we're coming" i heard them yell from the top of the hill. I waited no longer, to lessen my chances of being robbed, or even worst being killed, I ran into Kwindalandaroo boulevard, I ran for about twelve blocks along the boulevard as I had began to jog. As i jogged my smiling grew much more intense. The further i ran the bigger my smiles would get. At one point in time my teeth felt frozen. I began to laugh so hard next to the people i jogged by, they began to look at me very strangely. I didn't care at all. I just kept running with the thought that I had lived, i had escaped death. I began to scream random things: yes, ohhh yeahhhhh!, I did it, yeahh baby whose your daddy nowww!!"
    I got tired of running, my ankles began to throb severely and my lungs felt as if they were about to explode. I'v been running for twenty minutes now: down the hill, along the boulevard, around three round abouts, over three small bridges , across the amtrack tracks and I was tired. At one point, i thought about giving up my never ending fight, but I kept on picturing my family and their huge smiles. Lidya, John and Kevin I was so close to them yet so far I didn't even realize. I ran for another five minutes until i realized that i was on my avenue. And i could have seen my blueberried coloured house from where I was. I called my wife right away " honey come outside, bring the boys too. I'm home sweetie, i'm home". As i approached my house I felt a pain in my rib cage and a pain in my throat and for some reason i had trouble breathing.
    As I was running to my house I notice that although I was running to my family and their happy faces, I was moving further and further away from them. As I noticed that, I also noticed blood on the sidewalk coming from me, MY BODY. As i felt a gutwrenching pain inside of me the blood also gushed from my throat. I could no longer see my family anymore, they had dissappeared.
    "You got the time old man?" said the short boy. "I'ts 8:37" I sad to the boy, right then he took the knife out of his pocket, asking me for money and his other friend the tall boy held me down.
    Within a few seconds, I felt a cold metal enter my chest and a few seconds later it dissapeared and so the same for my throat. Helplessly falling onto the floor, I watched my papers fly into oblivion, as the green light grew dimmer as it came closer.

KADESHIA , CHRIS & JAVEDS BLOG! because we've got this!

Kadeshia

words are happiness and manipulation.  Everybody wants to be happy so the companies manipulate the truth of the words. Programmed in us for a young age for,  young age  things are impressionable. Easily intrigued. Ex McDonalds a happy child makes a happy mother. “

Benefit:  profit over punishment! Connection to worker

Workers prefer to do whatever it takes to make profit. If the coop makes profit they make profit- paycheck! Coops do whatever it takes to eliminate competition for profit.  Eating Animals – factory farming eliminates competition by eliminating its main resources. A company needs it resources and if they don’t have it companies would deteriorate.   Punishment is less than they would make without the fine: violations) make ten times more than fine no matter punishment. Customers would rather be happy and forget environment. Customers made to think that their happiness matters more than the environment.

Chris! Section here!

Organized chaos; cafo looks organized but destroy everything around them; humans people who consume products. Basically they try to make and destroy it at the same time; (rapidly) can relate to holocaust, wars, and genocides and apocalypse for the animals and the environment.pg 12 Organized in a way that they are being FUELED by our own tax payer’s money without us even knowing. We are inadvertently destroying our environment, degrading people, materializing animals; making them seem disposable. In addition, we are advocating this with our own money.

A correlation between the increase of violence towards humans and the connection to cruelty towards animals.PG4

Javed Najhafeez

Pages 131 the first two paragraphs and page 135 the first three paragraphs.

The first page gives a untrue statement about a cow the age of 17. However in reality and modern day LIFE PRODUCTION of animals, no cow lives to see the age of 17, not even half the age, especially the DAIRY COWS. The main purpose of these cows are for the production of milk, and as a result suffer the worst when being killed. While the second portion of the reading connect to this by explaining the GENETIC MANIPULATION aspect of production. The reading explains some key terms that are very important. The connection between these two passages is that the constant feeding of GENETICALLY MANIULATED foods to the animals being grown at these factories causes the life of an animal to be manipulated and altered aswell. Cows are no longer HEALTHY, in any way because they are constantly being fed CONCENTRATED also known as HIGH ENERGY FEEDS. These include foods for the animals such as cows, that are unfit for the cows stomache.

New Draft for essay three still under construction!

Javed Najhafeez

English/ J. Coopers

Essay #3

CAFO

“Worthless, control= chaos, insignificant, voluntary slavery or required by demand v.s-no option, need money cant find job so put self through hardship to get what is necessary you know what youre signing youself up for then get sucked in just because u need the money!”

Within the CAFO system (concentrated animal feeding operation), both the lives of animals and humans can be referred to as slavery and voluntary slavery. and serves no purpose other than what CAFO requires. CAFO requires humans to subject themselves to a lifestyle that surrounds the practice. Humans are to devote their time and energy at worksites that practice CAFO activities and in connection consumers must support this system. A system in which, after years of consuming of CAFO food products may be the leading cause of their diseases, their future generations’ diseases, financial deficit and death. Animals unlike humans do not have a choice in the way their lives are being altered to benefit production. Animals are more of factory robots programmed by modified feeding products to interfere with their lives in order to make the company profit. Within the CAFO system there is no such thing as life. Animals and humans are deprived of the very thing they were granted with, life. As I stated before the lives of animals are modified, therefore animals no longer have a say in the way they are brought up. Consequently, humans suffer as a result to the poor lives that animals suffer through. Humans suffer in many ways. Human beings over a period of constant consumption of CAFO products can be prone to sicknesses or and diseases that may lead to death. Also some hidden costs can be, financial costs of constantly buying food that kills you faster, or paying unnecessary hospital bills and the deterioration of society by helping to maintain this way of life, the CAFO way of life that is. Society is an innocent victim that is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nature along with society was put here for the intensions of it being used in an ethical way, a free way of doing things. However, over the past decades the very ones meant to preserve it, began to destroy it. By pollution the air with the smell of animal waste, along with creating thousand miles water dead zones. In addition, causing unnecessary sickness to families who are exposed to the horrors of the CAFO system’s practices. Life as we know it is at its breaking point. Nature is soon to be against us. The thousands of miles of dead zones causing less sea life, this means no seafood. The air being polluted, which means the ozone layer is deteriorating. These are only two examples of why the way in which we live needs to be different. If not for us, but for our future generation.

CHANGE IT! CAFO'S no way to go!

According to CAFO both the lives of animals and humans are meaningless. Meaningless in the sense of the lives of both these beings have no value, and serves no purpose other than what CAFO requires. CAFO, requires humans to subject themselves to lifestyle that surrounds the practice. Humans are to devote their time and energy at worksites that practice cafo activities and in connection consumers must support this system. A system in which may be the leading cause of their diseases, their children’s diseases,  financial deficit and death, after years of consuming CAFO food products. Animals unlike humans do not have a choice in the way their lives are being altered to benefit production. Animals are more of factory robots programmed by modified feeding products to tamper with their lives in order to make the company profit. Within the CAFO system there is no such thing as life. Animals and humans are deprived of the very thing they were granted with. As I stated before the lives of animals are modified, therefore animals no longer have a say in the way they are brought up. Consequently, humans suffer as a result to the poor lives that animals suffer through. Humans suffer in many ways. Human beings over a period of constant consumption of CAFO products can be prone to sicknesses or and diseases that may lead to death. Also some hidden costs can be financial costs of constantly buying food that kills you faster, or paying unnecessary hospital bills and the deterioration of their society by helping to maintain this way of life. The society is an innocent victim that is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nature along with society was put here for the intensions of it being used in an ethical way, a free way of doing things. However, over the past decades the very ones meant to preserve it, began to destroy it. By pollution the air with the smell of animal waste, along with creating thousand miles water dead zones. In addition, causing unnecessary sickness to families who are exposed to the horrors of the CAFO system’s practices.  Life as we know it is at its breaking point. Nature is soon to be against us. The thousands of miles of dead zones causing less sea life, this means no seafood. The air being polluted, which means the ozone layer is deteriorating. These are only two examples of why the way in which we live needs to be different. If not for us, but for our future generation.

Notes for the first Quiz Presentation!

PAGES :226-237 , 241-244, 252-256
MAIN IDEA: THE HARSH BUSINESS OF FACTORY FARMING AND THE ETHICAL WAY OF RAISING   ANIMALS AND THEIR LIVES WITHIN SLAUGHTERHOUSES. ALSO THE HARD COMPETITORSHIP OF VEGETERIAN FARMERS among factory farmers. Also the emotions workers had while working w the animals.
NOTICE THAT I SAID  F.F. BUSINESS & ETHICAL WAY! THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. FF UN LIKE THE ETHICAL WAY IS JUST A WAY OF MAKING MONEY, WHILE ELIMINATING COMPETITION, TAKING THE MEANING AND GOODNESS OUT OF FOOD.
FARMERS ARE AT FUED. COMPETITION ALLOVER TO PRODUCE MORE. AND FARMERS WOULD DO ANYTHING TO ELIMINATE IF NOT THE COMPANY ITSELF, TO CUT OFF THE RESOURCES NECESSARY FOR THE COMPANIES MAINTNANCE. (236)& THESE COORPERATIONS WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY SPLIT THE PROFIT UP BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THEY ARE CALLED  (( MEGA COORPORATIONS))
MEANING AND GOODNESS- THE ETHICAL WAY AS FARMERS ONCE DID IN THE PAST “ THE AMERICAN FARMER”. THIS IS WHERE EVERYTHING IS DONE BY UNSKILLED WORKERS WHO ARE NOT PROPERLY TRAINED TO WORK AT A CERTAIN SPEED TO KILL AND TORTURE ANIMALS.
(230-233) * INSIDE THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENT JOBS THAT PEOPLE HAVE ALONG THE FOOD KILLING PROCESS LINE.
Key words:KNOCKERS , KILL ALLEY, SLUNKS- CALVES BORN ON THE KILL ALLEY BLLOD USED FOR CANCER REASERCH. SHACKLERS CHAINS AND RAISES INTOAIR. STICKER CUTS ARTERIES AND NECK VEIN, BLEED RAIL BLOOD DRAINAGE, HEADSKINNER- SKINS HEAD. MOST ON 232-33]] HERITAGE POULTRY? DEAD END ANIMALS- CANNOT REPRODUCE ANYMORE.disavoural-to deny any responsibility
232-233- ANIMALS ARE TAKEN THROUGH A PROCESS AND EACH STEP OF THE WAY THERE IS SOMEONE THERE TO TAKE AWAY A BIT MORE OF THEIR LIVES EACH TIME- FULLY CONCIOUS! ITS LIKE TAKING YOUR CAR TO THE CARWASH  WHERE IT GOES THORUGH A NUMBER OF STAGES, HOWEVER BY MACHINE. IN OTHERWORDS THIS IS LIKE LOOKING AT ANIMALS IN A FASHION OF  A CAR. A POSESSION OF SOMEONE  SOMETHING WITH SUCH GREAT MEANING HOWEVER AT THE SAME TIME ITS NOT WORTH YOUR LIFE SO YOU CAN LET SOMETHING HAPPEN TO IT. YOU WILL CARE FOR IT TO AN EXTENT BUT  NOT TO THE EXTENT OF THE LIFE OF YOURSELF OR A LOVED ONE. LIKE THE FACTORY WORKERS EXPLAINED 254( LAST PARR. A WORKER EXPLAINED HIS FACE TO FACE EMOTIONS WITH THESE ANIMALS. HE EXPLAINED THAT THEY  REACH OUT AND SHOW LOVE AND HE CARES FOR THEM TOO BUT AT THE SDAME POINT HE HAS TO KILLL THEM WHEN THEY REACH TO HIM.
DISCONNECTEDNESS:{ divorcing people from their food eliminating farmers and ruling agri by coorperate commands. PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR CAR FOR MACHINES AND PEOPLE TO WASH IT AND INVADE THEIR PRIVACY LIKE PEOPLE ALLOW ANYONE TO HANDLE THEIR FOOOD. NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THEIR CAR IN  CERTAIN PARTS OF THE CAR WASH UNLESS THEY SEE IT WHAT HAPPENS TO EVERYTHING THAT IS UNSEEN LIKE THE TREATMENT OF THESE ANIMALS BY THE WORKERS.
MOST DON’T  AGREE NOR LIKE KILLING THESE ANIMALS THE WAY THEY ARE ORDERED BUT MONEY IS NECESSARY. BILLS, RENT, CLOTHES, FOOD & SURVIVAL. MONEY TALKS ALLOVER. “They are not farmers anymore, they are cooperations.”{237}
“ YOUR MONEY IS AS GREEN AS HIS” AN INTERESTING STATEMENT.
IF YOU HAVE MONEY YOU ARE LOOKED AT A BIT DIFFERENTLY COMPARED TO THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE MONEY. ITS LIKE A BUM IN AMERICA BEGGIN ON THE TRAIN. HE OR SHE IS LOOKED AT  AS LESS THAN A PERSON.
ANTOPOCENTRISM. WE, NORMAL EVERYDAY PEOPLE MAKE THIS JUDGEMENT, THINKING WE ARE BETTER THAN THE PERSON ASKING US FOR HELP. IN FACT WE ARE NO BETTER BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKED DOWN UPON BY THE RICHER- RICH- OR WEALTHY THE SAME WAY.
  SURE WE, WELL  VOTERS VOTE FOR THE PERSON THEY FEEL BEST BUT DO WEE FEEL THAT PROGRESS IS BEING MADE IN SOCIETY. IMAGINE THE LITTLE THINGS CANNOT BE FIXED BUT YET THE BIG DECISION MAKERS IMMEDIATELY FOCUSED ON THE “ BIG THING”.  IDK WHAT A BIG THING WOULD BE BUT I SAY GETTIGN PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS, FACTORY FARMING DISEASE ISSUES, ANIMAL ABUSEMENT( I THINK THAT’S A WORD), EQUALITY, PROPER EDUCATION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN. SO THT WHEN THEY FINISH HIGH SCHOOL, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE IT TO COLLEGE THEY ARE FULLY PREPARED. S
O THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR REMEDIALS AND EXCESS MONEY SPENDITURE.  & WE KNOW HOW HIGH TUITION IS. TUITION DISCOURAGES AND CREATES A B LOCKADE FOR SOME PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY  WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OF THEMSELVES. AND DON’T SETTLE FOR LESS WORKING AT MCDONALDS. NOT THAT IM AGAINST IT, IF YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO THEN BY ALL MEANS. BACK TO MY POINT TUITION INCLUDES TEXT BOOKS, TRANSPORTATION FARE AND OF COURSE  YOUR CLASSES. NOT EVERYONE IS COVERED BY F.A. SO FOR THE REST WHAT DO THEY DO. WORK DEAD END JOBS, LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK. TO END UP WHERE, TO A HIGHER TUITION EVERY YEAR, TO HIGHER METRO CARD PRICES, FOOD PRICES GOING UP.  ITS LIKE JUST AS YOU BEGIN TO FIND YOURSELF IN A WORLD YOU’VE WAITED 18 – 20 YEARS TO  LIVE  IN, IT BECOMES THE WORLD YOUDE SEE IN A RUNDOWN MOVIE.
AS A RESULT THAT GOES BACK TO THE BUM SITUATION SOMEHOW. SOME PEOPLE LACK FAITH AND DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT MOTIVATION AND MINDSET AND END UP DROPPING OUT OF LIFE IN GENERAL. BECOMING HOOKED ON OTHER THINGS THAT NEVER WOULD THEY HAVE THUGHT THEY WOULD BE CAUGH UP IN. DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, ILLEGAL TRAFFICING, BLACKMARET PROPOSITIONS AND OTHER PETTY OR DANGEROUS CRIMES.  & THE PERFECT PLACE FOR SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ILLEGAL/ UNDOCUMENTED FACTORY WORKERS WHO ARE SMUGGLED HERE TO WORK IN FACTORIES. THEY ARE GIVEN THE DRUGS TO WORK, THE WORK, THEY REQUIRE IF EVENTUALLY WHEN THEY DON’T WORK, CANT GET IT DO ANYTHING TO GET IT WHICH LEADS TO A FEW OF THE THINGS WE MENTIONED BEFORE, DRUGS, CRIMES, PROSTITUTION.  
AND FOR SOME IF NOT MOST PEOPLE WHO LIVE  LIKE THIS BECOME SO ANGRY, AND DEPRESSED THEY END UP KILLING OR SEVERLY HARMIND THEMSELVES. Leaving your country to come die in another for all the wrong reasons is what is happening to these people in the place where people come to live their dream.

Eating our lives away, LITERALLY!

First, I’d like to say what a shocking video. For an individual to sit and watch this video without a solid or emotional reaction to it says a lot about that individual. This basically would mean that this individual is simply barbaric.

Most people in the United States have little to no idea of where their food comes from, before it is placed on the supermarket shelves then to their fridge. This video Farm to Fridge by Mercy videos, gave viewers a brief surfaced summary of what thousands of helpless animals go through every day to provide food, for us humans. Everyday thousands of animals which include pigs, chickens and cows are tortured and killed brutally by factory farm workers. Workers who have no remorse what so ever for the lives of these creatures, nor the lives of themselves. Along the line of killing in these factories some animals are processed alive. What this basically mean is that some animals are skinned, get their body parts ripped out such as their vaginas and penises, are slammed against the floors, get their tails ripped off and their throats slit, while still alive and fully conscious of what is happening to them, as shown in the video.

From the moment that animals enter these factories their lives are over. In the video we saw portents of inside of some major factory worksites. From the little that was shown, these worksites are dark, cramped, blood filled, feces infested no air circulation, no windows and violent workers manhandling each and every animal that passes through the factory.

This video is perfect for our lib110 class project. My group is called the Wolf Pack Productions, and we are simply investigating the cafeterias food choices and making the students, staff and any other persons who eat from them, aware of where their food comes from. Also let it be known that there should be alternative foods to choose from. Therefore, this video is extremely helpful if there are any visual learners who need to see the truth for motivation. Motivation in the sense of being more aware of what they eat and hopefully cut down on their factory farm meat consumption.  Many people, such as my self need to see certain things to get the actual motivation process started. Not to say that words are completely meaningless, they do influence, however, seeing something for some is actually a gateway to awareness. And awareness can be key to a different future. Due to the simple fact that many people are not aware of how their food gets to them. I liked the term DISCONECTEDNESS that was used in class. The book Eating Animals states that people have become disconnected with their food that they become detached. They no longer care or take the time to look into what they are putting in their body. The world has become so distracted with petty and meaningless things that we forget some of the more important things. Meaningful things such as animals, the beings that most of us depend on for survival, we forget.

What do you mean, Froot Loops can KILL YOU?

Over the last century becoming overweight has been an ongoing enormous problem among people of all ages worldwide, more specifically the United States. One of the biggest factors in becoming overweight is the lack of awareness, because many times when one eats he or she is not fully aware that they are eating and why they are eating. This is where the problem comes in. As a result of the constant unawareness of eating foods that contain salts, sugars and fat becoming overweight follows and over a period of time a person becomes obese. Obese is the stage where ones health is severely in danger because he or she is no longer in control of their eating habits and rapid weight gain.

In the reading The End of Overeating by David a. Kessler MD, Kessler explains to the readers, his philosophy on the ethics of the eating habits of human beings.  This reading answers the questions of why people eat, when people eat, how much do people eat, why they continue to eat. The portion that I found to be very interesting was about the fact that people’s taste buds are attracted to foods that have a combination of fat, sugar and salts. “Mix the same amount of sugar in low fat and high fat products, however, and people invariably chose the higher fat mixtures. Fat and sugar levels both influence preference” (Kessler 13).  The body has a mind of its own and the body craves a high level of sugary and fatty products. The yearning of these products becomes an addiction to individuals. Addiction in the aspect of when the body wants what it wants it must be given when and what it wants, no matter the journey.

Many individuals are also not aware of what they are eating and how it will affect them in the long run. Cereal is a big part of the common American diet. Cereal is a simple quick snack to quench hunger for breakfast and sometimes other meals during the day, mixed with milk. Some people, mostly young children eat cereal at least twice a day, and grow up eating it. In the long run feed it to their children, as the process repeats itself. What most people don’t know is that the cereal that they eat and their kids eat is harmful. “Froot Loops, the high-calorie, high- sugar cereal” (Kessler 15). As I stated before, the body craves fatty and sugary products. The result of the constant consumption of these products will be the issue of becoming overweight and in the long run obesity. Cereals like Froot loops are tremendously popular among kids and as a child and their body becomes used to this product they become dependent.

Over the past decade cereal advertisements have grown. The producers have found new and more improved ways in which they advertise their product. Through television, the use of colour to catch the eye of young children, fun adventures that cereal mascots set out on, fun puzzles at the back of the boxes, and little toys inside of the boxes. Children love animals that they can relate too, animals that interact with them and make their lives more playful, and this exactly what cereal producers do. They do whatever it takes to get their customers to stay loyal and intoxicate their bodies. As children eat the cereal constantly as a child they along with their bodies’ become use to the fat and sugar in it. Then their bodies become addicted to the cereal. This is where biological mechanism and homeostatic comes in. Both of these terms are basically a system in the body used to regulate and manage the fat and sugar consumption of one and prevent a person from becoming fat. However, these systems fail to function correctly because of hyper palatability. Palatability is basically the capacity the body has to stimulate ones appetite and enable one to eat even more. In other words, our stomach is one size to begin with. As we begin to fill our stomachs the stomach obviously will begin to stretch each time you put an increased amount of food inside each time.  As a result of people not being aware of their eating habits, they are not aware that the amount increases each time. And over a period of time the individual becomes fat and suffers from heart and body problems. If one does not become more conscious of what he or she is eating they become threats to themselves.

OSHA & its workers!

In chapter Eight of Fast Food Nation, "The most dangerous jobs", Eric Schlosser describes the dangers of the meat packing industries and the fatal effects the jobs inflicts upon its workers. More specifically, Schlosser elaborates on the intense on site injuries the workers suffer while companies would ignore these injuries. Due to the OSHA Company having an increase in injuries, they were inspected by factory inspectors to locate and fix these problems. As a result, of the growing problem,  in 1981 a new policy was adopted called the “Voluntary Compliance”, which basically meant instead of the industries having un announced visits, the inspectors would now have to look at an injury log that the company would keep. If the log was below a certain amount of injuries the inspectors would now have to leave the company alone. OSHA then made two logs; one for the government and another for themselves. The difference between these two logs was that the one for the government had a false number far less than the actual numbers the company actually had within the factory. “During a three month period in 1985, the first log recorded [1,800] injuries and illnesses at the plant. The OSHA log only recorded [160] a discrepancy of more than [1,000] percent (Schlosser 180). The difference was incredible between the two logs because the company was lying continuously .The contradiction here was the company not honoring the nations safety laws that were implemented. The contradiction more specifically was that although OSHA was said to be this enormous, up to standard complying with the law industry they were constantly lying to the government and themselves. So many workers were fatally injured on the job and few were reported. Therefore lying would be the core of the contradiction of the OSHA’s industry

The Inhumanity behind it all

The relationship between the industry and its animals and workers is simply inhumane. The relationship is inhumane because these large companies such a McDonald’s, Burger King, factories etc. target teenagers, immigrants and other “de-skilled” individuals to work for them intensively with the unfair pay of minimum wage. In this essay I will to my best ability, attempt to elaborate on the truth behind the portion of individuals who are treated unfairly everyday because these companies benefit from their suffering.

I will use a number of materials to support my points. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, a food investigator who microscopically views and unravels the truth behind fast food restaurant's history, present and future and it’s outcomes on society.  Also, The Ethics of what We Eat by Peter Singer, who describes a similar story; however within different environments. He explains in great detail of where our food actually comes from, and the process the food goes through before it reaches our plates. A very short clip between Eric Schlosser and PBS. In addition the movie Food Inc.

Agricultural work all over American is very demanding and within its demands there is much exploitation of workers taking place. Both Eric Schlosser’s interview with PBS and Peter Singer’s book explains what takes place inside factories and other various work sites. According to Eric Schlosser, strawberry picking is an extremely tedious process in which multiple hands laboring endless hours to produce a massive quantity of produces is necessary. Therefore immigrants, the people who are usually looked down upon and hold very little status in the United States are forced to be outside everyday picking these strawberries non stop just to make enough money to ensure their families survival. Supervisors and managers are aware of the situations of each individual, which gives them unspoken authority to control their working pace.

In the book Ethics of What we Eat by Peter Singer (p32) describes the worldwide famous brand Tyson’s industry and their ill-treatment towards their workers. “Jobs at Tyson foods are so poorly paid and unpleasant that job turnover in some plants has been reported to be higher than 100 percent annually, meaning that the average employee lasts less than a year.” (Singer, 32)He also went on describing the deaths and injuries of two fifteen years old children that occurred at this plant. This only shows that Tyson does not care about it’s people at all. Having under aged minors work at a company strictly meant for adults is dehumanizing. Think of all the things the children may have seen every day; animals being killed by people they work with, accidental deaths etc. These events can corrupt a child's mind causing him or her to look at life from a different perspective based on what they see occurring around them everyday. Hence, the health and well being of some of the children may be permanently damaged or may affect them in the long run.

Women are also a constant target of sexual abuse at work sites. Since supervisors are “dictators” of their work area according to Fast Food Nation (Schlosser, 175-76) they tend to have a great amount of power over their workers and how they do their jobs. As a result, women are fondled and spoken too in a manner in which a lady is not subjected to be spoken too. Women who have been through hardships tend to think on their feet a lot, because of lessons learned from past experiences and encounters with life’s obstacles. Some of the women put up with the ill treatment at factories simply so they can marry a man of high power. Once they are able to convince the man of their humbleness and ability to be controlled in order for him to accept her as his lawfully wedded wife. Then she is legally one step closer to becoming a free woman and sooner or later she will be employed working a legal job, somewhere besides a factory. Women now have to degrade themselves by using the gift of marriage as their escape to happiness from their life according to Fast Food Nation(Schlosser, 175-76) What has society come too that a woman must lie and marry a man she might not love just to be a woman in society?

The inhumanity of the relationship of the system affect on its workers comes when workers don't get fully credited for their hard work. What I mean is that the companies usually do everything in its power to ensure that a worker gets paid as little as possible, in order for them to profit. “Tyson has a record of seeking to lower wages and cut health benefits for its workers, even while the corporation has been experiencing unprecedented growth and making billions of dollars in profits.”(Singer, 33) This basically means that Tyson wants to be cheap and selfish towards its hard workers. They don’t want to provide them with any help or safety although they have the ability to do so. Therefore, if large companies around the United States are making profits from their workers hard work, why shouldn’t workers get credited for their hard work and dedication towards the company?

There is another significant reason that the relationship between the workers and the industry is inhumane. That reason is because some workers are not being credited for their hard work. In the book Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser he elaborates on the relationship between fast food workers and the intense labor being put into these companies and the "company policy “careless responses from their managers. He then gives an example and states "The bonus of Taco Bell restaurant managers were tied to

Their success at cutting labor costs.” The managers have devised a number of creative ways to do so. This basically means less money for the workers and more money for the managers. Some ways that workers were subjected to this ill treatment was to work in the restaurant after their shift had already come to an end.

Within the industry not only is there the exploitation of human beings; however, there is also the exploitation of innocent animals every day. In the book Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer (p24- 26) the author describes the everyday life inside a chicken shed. Within these pages, they describe the cruelty of the chickens, “food among feces”, and the manner in which chickens are denied food, growth and freedom of living. The passages also went on describing cruel and irresponsible acts done by workers that are inflicted upon these animals. In addition (p28) the author describes the day in the life of a Turkey Inseminator. Turkey inseminators are persons that simply physically impregnate a female turkey using male sperm that was collected through a horrid process. The process is for a worker to catch and snatch a male turkey and hold it against its will while fighting him to extract semen. Then the worker must do the same to a female turkey, but must inject the semen collected into her while fighting her. In addition to this horrific scene, some of the chickens that pass through the industrial process are killed alive, in scaling hot water. Consequently, body parts of the animal may end up becoming broken or misplaced. This is all due to the irresponsibility of workers that have no care about the animals.

As the food industries grow more powerful the demand for produces increases. Consequently, farmers adjust their farms to the needs of their supervisors. As Fast Food Nation states in chapter six, On the range where most farmers are in debt, therefore they have no choice but to work off their debt. Within this chapter we were introduced to a farmer by the name of Hank and his family in Colorado who owned a farm in modern day society. Within the chapter Hank explained about life on the farm, some issues the family were facing at that point in time and in the end Hank took his life because his dead body was worth more than his living body. By providing large companies with their products when necessary they weave their way out of this debt little by little. Even if this means as Richard Lobb said in Food Inc.” these industries don’t produce chickens anymore, they just produce food.” Indeed he is correct; industries no longer take in consideration the lives of the animals. The look, the feel and the actual environment of these animal farms are as the inside of a HENRY FORDS assembly line factory.

Although farmers are the one spending money to grow and tend to these animals, they have the least say in how this business works. In terms of how they raise the animals and what precautions should be taken to ensure comfort to these animals. Carole Morison a chicken farm owner from the movie Food Inc. has got to the point where she feels that it is time her right to the freedom of speech needs to be exercised. She is fed up of keeping her mouth shut and letting the bigger industries not only abuse her animals, but her as well. Carole, refused to keep her chickens in the dark during their growth stage as she was instructed to do. She states that “the growers have no choice, the debt just keeps building”. And went on to say “to have no say in your business is degrading.” This is also true. To truly know that your business is being controlled by someone else who is making a profit off of you and your hard work is gut wrenching. What makes this even worst is that you cannot say anything about it, because your life is in jeopardy.

Supervisors of these industries give these jobs to individuals without a care of what happens, just as long as the job gets done at the end of the day. Eric Schlosser stated on an interview with PBS that within the choice of eating three times a day, the main concern of most individuals are what to eat and what will it do to them. However, most people fail to realize where does the food that they are about to eat come from.

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Another significant reason !

There is another significant reason that the relationship between the workers and the industry is inhumane. That reason is because some workers are not being credited for their hard work. In the book Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser he elaborates on the relationship between fast food workers and the intense labor being put into these companies and the "company policy “careless responses from their managers. He then gives an example and states "The bonus of Taco Bell restaurant managers were tied to their success at cutting labor costs. The managers have devised a number of creative ways to do so. This basically means less money for the workers and more money for the managers. Some ways that workers were subjected to this ill treatment was to work in the restaurant after their shift had already come to an end. Also some were forced to clean the restaurant on their personal time. Therefore managers were not paid to ensure that a fair working environment was in place for their workers; however, paid to manage injustice.

Fast Food Nation and Kid Konsumers!

   Within the book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, he explains to readers the history, strategies and propaganda behind the popular industries. However, within pages (40-45) Schlosser elaborates on children as main targets of these industries, such as McDonalds, Walt-Disney etc. Hence, he touches on something so true, people fail to realize this and as a result waste money and put their families health in jeopardy.

     He explains that" children often recognize a brand logo before they recognize their on name.” He also went on to say that these companies have a plan to “give kids a reason to ask for the product.”  Therefore, companies with the motto of families first have completely went against their philosophy. They don’t really care at this point, as the money they make pile up they begin to loose interest of quality and focus on quantity. How could you treat the customers that keep your company going in a harsh and unfriendly manner?

    Another interesting point to touch on is that company has spent money to do research on their strategies in order for them to succeed as necessary to gain more customers and eliminate competition. The author explains that the researchers have found that there are many ways in which a child requests what he or she wants or desires and the manner in which they do it. There is the pleading nag, a persistent nag, the forceful nag, demonstrative nags, the sugar coated nag, threatening nag and the pity nag. Each nag entitles a child to frustrate the busy mind of his or her parent to say, “YES”, just for the child to stop. With this being said, companies have come to the realize that as well and instead of preventing this from occurring they try to increase this action, because with this action their companies grow. If children don’t do these actions, their companies will indeed falter.

    This process is insane especially when Kroc who is associated with the growth of McDonalds said that this is a “rat eat rat, dog eat dog, society and before the customers kill him he will kill them.” Slowly but surely his success is growing at killing his customers. Killing them in any way possible, breaking their pockets, making them feel insecure and making them unhealthy with ever bite of their big Mac or French fries. What could have been done to Kroc in the past influences his philosophy?

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   The relationship between the industry and its workers is simply inhumane. Immigrants are brought from Central American countries such as Guatemala, to work intensively, with little to no pay in unsanitary and unsafe work environments. Immigrants are considered individuals with limited freedom and as a result they are forced to work for large companies that treat them with no respect in order to have massive productions worldwide.

     Agricultural work in American tends to be very demanding and within its demands there is much exploitation of workers taking place.  For example according to Eric Schlosser strawberry picking can be a very tedious process. As a result, the demand of multiple hands laboring endless hours to produce a massive quantity of produces is necessary. In the book Ethics of What we Eat by Peter singer (p32) describes the worldwide famous brand Tyson’s industry and their ill-treatment towards their workers. “Jobs at Tyson foods are so poorly paid and unpleasant that job turnover in some plants has been reported to be higher than 100 percent annually, meaning that the average employee lasts less than a year. “Stated the author, and he also went on describing the deaths and injuries of two fifteen years olds that occurred at this plant. Women are also a big target of sexual abuse at worksites. Since supervisors are “dictators” of their work area they tend to have a great amount of power of their workers and how they do their jobs. As a result, women are fondled and spoken too in a manner in which a lady is not subjected to be spoken too.  Ethics of What We Eat Peter Singer (p33) describes a Tyson Food practice. “Tyson has a record of seeking to lower wages and cut health benefits for its workers, even while the corporation has been experiencing unprecedented growth and making billions of dollars in profits.” If a company of its caliber is making such high profits, it is possible for workers to work in better environments and be paid more than minimum wage. Therefore, if large companies around the United States are making profits from their workers hard work, why shouldn’t workers get credited for their hard work and dedication towards the company?

   Within the industry not only is there the exploitation of human beings; however, there is also the exploitation of innocent animas every day.  In the book Ethics of What We Eat by Peter Singer (p24-26) the author describes the everyday life inside a chicken shed. Within these pages, they describe the cruelty of the chickens, “food among feces”, and the manner in which chickens are denied food, growth and freedom of living. The passages also went on describing cruel and irresponsible acts done by workers that are inflicted upon these animals.  In addition (p28) the author describes the day in the life of a Turkey Inseminator. The process is for a worker to catch and snatch a male turkey and hold it against its will while fighting him to extract semen. Then the worker must do the same to a female turkey, but must inject the semen collected into her while fighting her.  In addition to this horrific scene, some of the chickens that pass through the industrial process are killed alive, in scaling hot water. Consequently, body parts of the animal may end up becoming broken or misplaced. This is all due to the irresponsibility of workers that have no care about the animals. Supervisors of these industries give these jobs to individuals without a care of what happens, just as long as the job gets done at the end of the day. Eric Schlosser stated on an interview with PBS that within the  choice of eating three times a day, the main concern of most individuals are what to eat and what will it do to them. However, most people fail to realize where does the food that they are about to eat come from