Notes for the first Quiz Presentation!

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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