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Thursday, March 15, 2012
My own view
My own view is that I find CAFO ti be very manipulating and hidden. CAFO is trapping the people to believe in the "Value Meal". Though I coincide that the prices of fast food are beneficial as well as time saving for people who don't have the time to cook a meal, I still maintain that if people were aware of the damage we are causing ourselves we'd probably make the time to cook a decent meal for ourselves.
First Blog
I’m writing this blog to inform you about the way we live
today, and how the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operations) system works.
Some of you may be aware but many of you are not. The truth about everything we eat, what
society has and may become lies behind the CAFO system. I am reading this book
“The Cafo Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories” by Daniel Imhoff.
Reading his book I’ve learned a lot. Are you aware that nearly 10 billion
animals (mostly chickens, pigs and cows) are raised and slaughtered every year
in the United States alone? This is the food we eat every day. All the fast
food ads, the pictures they show us in the supermarket labels of the perfect animal
husbandry farm isn’t the truth. Imhoff writes "In CAFO, animals are
concentrated in unnaturally high stocking rates by the thousands or tens of
thousands and under unnatural conditions, often unable to breath fresh air, see
the light of day, walk outside, peck at plants or insects, scratch the earth,
or eat a blade of grass, they are fed high-calorie grain based diet (sometimes
including reclaimed animal manure, ground-up fish, or recycled animal parts)
designed to maximize growth and weight gain in the shortest amount of time.” By
reading I cant help but think twice about what I’m eating what Imhoff describes
is pure torture. So that chickens aren’t able to peck one another their beaks are
partially seared off, piglet’s tails are “docked” so they can be still in a
crammed environment and more. This is cruelty; CAFO defines this cruelty as
benefit to the health and well being of the animals and ability to provide
“safe” food supply for a hungry planet. This system doesn’t only destroy
innocent lives of the animals its destroying ours as well. We see this as acceptable because a value menu at Mc Donald's or Burger King is cheaper and less time consuming. What we don’t see how our health and environment is being destroyed. Imhoff
talks about a study by The World Watch Institute, on how the pegs global
livestock production is responsible for 32 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually
as well as 51% of all green house emissions cause of that there are no 5 hundred
reported “dead zones” throughout the world. I feel this is important because
we see our planet slowly changing, last winter we had tremendous snow this year
we had none at all and the change is drastic. People around us aren't aware of the reality of the things we consume and where they come from. Tragedy's starting to evolve in society, our environment and health. And maybe it’s CAFO is a system that’s at the root of it all.
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