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.