Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!

There was a time when industrial farming never existed and most of the farming was done by a countryside property with many herds of sheep and cattle, a few out in the open field and many chickens freely roaming their surrounding. Today farming is more or less known to still have this old perception where every animal lives happily. In fact today farming involves many new and innovative technology, but it's not for the better actually the complete opposite. Although a trip to the supermarket involves watching a lot of seals promoting that the companies treated their animals with intensive care, one example is the humane care seal which is put on egg cartons when owners follow a specific set of procedures. Just because the word humane is in there doesn't necesarily mean that they were treated adequately. In order for one of these seals, these companies can remove the chicken's beaks with no anesthetics in order for them not to kill each other. Also they can put there chickens in very limited where they dont even have enough space to turn around or flap their wings. I have posted a video here which shows how these animals are really treated.

Although these animals are eaten, I think they deserve equal treatment just like other animals. People only get to really see what's posted on their styrofoam trays at the supermarket but never really wonder where their food really comes from. Most of the time these chicken go for days untreated and most of their 6 week lifespan is spent through tons of excrements. Attached to this link, many pictures show how these animals rot and die slow and painful deaths. The decision is up to consumers to investigate where their food really comes from and how it got there.

my topic (different color)

For my topic in the ethics of food cluster I decided to write about the ongoing violence towards animals, the animals we eat. Many people believe that just because their food has some sort of label on it "assuring" their food was well-treated throughout it's life time, the food is safe to buy and no guilt should be felt. One example is the humane care label that is being posted on egg cartoons in America, apparently letting the customer know that the chicken wasn't treated violently, but it's exactly the opposite. Not only chickens but all types of farm animals undergo some form of abuse in order for their "job" to be fulfilled. The reason why I came up with this project is because this issue is an ongoing problem that consumer seem to ignore even though they're the ones keeping these food giants in business. After reading a few of the books assigned by my professors I began to see the cruelty that these animals face. A small description of animal cruelty towards the animals is the bone development in chicken, normally chicken take about 2-3 months in order to fully develop but due to selective breeding and other methods of reproductions chickens now only take 6 weeks maximum in order to be slaughtered and sent to a supermarket near you. I believe this topic can relate to everyday life because whenever anyone goes grocery shopping many decisions are involved, hopefully by writing about this topic the reader may stop and think next time they go in their local supermarket and decide to buy that chicken breast or ground beef. Some of the themes of my project will be how to they are treated from the very first moment they come to this world to the very point where they placed on a styrofoam plate wrapped in plastic, also how and what they are fed. A few things that I hope to learn from this project are what really happens to these animals in farms, also get a sense of what they feel like when they are abused. I hope to inspire every single person that reads my project, to make better decisions and start to realize where their food really comes from. Also making readers realize that "organic" or "healthy" food isn't so healthy, because they're myriad forms and words in order to lure consumers to buy these foods, all masqueraded under one big umbrella.

My topic

For my topic in the ethics of food cluster I decided to write about the ongoing violence towards animals, the animals we eat. Many people believe that just because their food has some sort of label on it "assuring" their food was well-treated throughout it's life time, the food is safe to buy and no guilt should be felt. One example is the humane care label that is being posted on egg cartoons in America, apparently letting the customer know that the chicken wasn't treated violently, but it's exactly the opposite. Not only chickens but all types of farm animals undergo some form of abuse in order for their "job" to be fulfilled. The reason why I came up with this project is because this issue is an ongoing problem that consumer seem to ignore even though they're the ones keeping these food giants in business. After reading a few of the books assigned by my professors I began to see the cruelty that these animals face. A small description of animal cruelty towards the animals is the bone development in chicken, normally chicken take about 2-3 months in order to fully develop but due to selective breeding and other methods of reproductions chickens now only take 6 weeks maximum in order to be slaughtered and sent to a supermarket near you. I believe this topic can relate to everyday life because whenever anyone goes grocery shopping many decisions are involved, hopefully by writing about this topic the reader may stop and think next time they go in their local supermarket and decide to buy that chicken breast or ground beef. Some of the themes of my project will be how to they are treated from the very first moment they come to this world to the very point where they placed on a styrofoam plate wrapped in plastic, also how and what they are fed. A few things that I hope to learn from this project are what really happens to these animals in farms, also get a sense of what they feel like when they are abused. I hope to inspire every single person that reads my project, to make better decisions and start to realize where their food really comes from. Also making readers realize that "organic" or "healthy" food isn't so healthy, because they're myriad forms and words in order to lure consumers to buy these foods, all masqueraded under one big umbrella.

Problem Posing method

One of the many problems that I think are wrong this chapter on behalf of the fast food industry would be child labor. Elisa is a victim of this abuse and can only be described as abuse. Elisa Zamot works at a McDonald's that is located about 1/2 mile from her house. Every weekend the teenager wakes up at 5:15 am and heads to the shower, being completely done with her hair by 5:30. At times her mom drives her to work but other times she normally walks there. Once Elisa arrives at her job the door is opened by her manager, where she then steps in and starts to clean the store with her manager. After her long 7 hour shift Elisa heads home at around 7 o'clock tired and exhausted. A great quote that describes this problem can be found in pg. 68 half-way through the page the reader comes across two sentences that say "About two-thirds of the nation's fast food workers are under the age of twenty. Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going all hours in between.", this quote represents the problem because it clearly mentions that teenagers are basically the ones who run fast food stores. I have had countless amounts of instances where I would walk into a fast food restaurant and get ready to order when I see the cashier's face it's actually a teenager about the same age as me. Many solutions have been tried to stop this exploitation of teenagers but these fast food chains always seem to get around it by seducing their employees with other tactics, one example being that instead of being paid money they are sometimes paid in food. A solution that, in my opinion, would put an end to this subject would be to make sure that all of the laws put forth are being exherted and applied by all of these food chains.