The food industrial food system is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry.What you must know about this system, is that they feed you food, no doubt but also, they feed you lies.The way they process food is very inhumane or you can say not the proper way,as told,but majority consume it anyways.My perspective on this subject matter evolved so much that now I question my food, where did it come from, who processed it, who slaughtered it. How fascinating, I have been eating these types food from unknown places, for so many years now,and not knowing the fact that majority of the meat we receive where contaminated by rat droppings, and did these systems care? no I do not think so, to them it is just a business and " breeding for money". Can we trust our food here in America, honestly, it may vary, because few farmers still practice traditional animal husbandry and as far it goes for the animal treatment, for a fact that we will be consuming rightful bred animals.The economic research service states "The U.S. food system is a complex network of farmers and the industries that link to them. Those links include makers of farm equipment and chemicals as well as firms that provide services to agribusinesses, such as providers of transportation and financial services. The system also includes the food marketing industries that link farms to consumers, and which include food and fiber processors, wholesalers, retailers, and food service establishments". Which may mean, that our food that we consume, travels from links to link i.e places to places, now how do we know that it " travels " safe, when we NOW know what goes on in those slaughter houses or factories.In conclusion, over this semester I have learned a lot, a huge amount of knowledge on the food system, expanded my thoughts on these type of systems, I mean there is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, after knowing what goes on in those food industries, and developing dangerous diseases, why not be safe than sorry. If someone were to ask me, if having these types of food, from such places, I would say stay away, probably we would end up saving our planet.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Final perspective on the food industrial
The food industrial food system is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry.What you must know about this system, is that they feed you food, no doubt but also, they feed you lies.The way they process food is very inhumane or you can say not the proper way,as told,but majority consume it anyways.My perspective on this subject matter evolved so much that now I question my food, where did it come from, who processed it, who slaughtered it. How fascinating, I have been eating these types food from unknown places, for so many years now,and not knowing the fact that majority of the meat we receive where contaminated by rat droppings, and did these systems care? no I do not think so, to them it is just a business and " breeding for money". Can we trust our food here in America, honestly, it may vary, because few farmers still practice traditional animal husbandry and as far it goes for the animal treatment, for a fact that we will be consuming rightful bred animals.The economic research service states "The U.S. food system is a complex network of farmers and the industries that link to them. Those links include makers of farm equipment and chemicals as well as firms that provide services to agribusinesses, such as providers of transportation and financial services. The system also includes the food marketing industries that link farms to consumers, and which include food and fiber processors, wholesalers, retailers, and food service establishments". Which may mean, that our food that we consume, travels from links to link i.e places to places, now how do we know that it " travels " safe, when we NOW know what goes on in those slaughter houses or factories.In conclusion, over this semester I have learned a lot, a huge amount of knowledge on the food system, expanded my thoughts on these type of systems, I mean there is nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, after knowing what goes on in those food industries, and developing dangerous diseases, why not be safe than sorry. If someone were to ask me, if having these types of food, from such places, I would say stay away, probably we would end up saving our planet.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Proof of Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Home_Landing.aspx?sm=EFJzEeMnyqmHN%2bc51qsOSB1bALKWkvZlhyO7WpH8n5w%3d
11th hour inside the CAFO
In this blog, I will discuss about the documentary The 11th Hour...
The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment.
It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. The film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling
for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human
activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation.
"Global warming is not only the number one
environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important
issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise
awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in
promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet".
—Leonardo DiCaprio,In other words, our planet is in grave trouble due to the global warning that is happening, and must bring awareness to humanity.I believe that the CAFO system has to do a lot with it, because of the pollution they process.Briefly, in CAFO, we recognize the logic of industrialism applied to domesticated food animals. The result is a tragic, pathetic, and inhumane method of raising animals in factory farms to produce meat, milk, eggs, leather, fur, and nonessential culinary luxuries such as liver pâté. Living creatures are treated as machines, reduced to “units” in an assembly line of protein production by corporate food purveyors, with the individual animal’s suffering ignored. This is the kind of atrocity for which the word evil seems too meek and mild, and also leads to other issues such as environmental problematic issues.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
The end of over eating......
In this blog I will be discussing about Dr.David Kessler`s article on the end of over eating.
In The End of Overeating, Dr. Kessler explains how humans, much
like Pavlov's dogs, become hardwired to anticipate foods with fat,
sugar, and salt. The food industry has learned what humans want, and is
only too be happy to give us what we crave. We quickly become trapped in a
vicious cycle of dopamine-fueled urges when we want food, and opioid
releases when we eat it. If dopamine and opioid sound familiar, it's
because they play a major role in alcohol and drug addiction. Dr.
Kessler draws a direct connection between food's power over people, and
the pull of alcohol and drugs. It truly isn't a stretch to say, "I'm
addicted to chocolate."Clearly, the knowledge we gained from this, is that there is much similarity between intake of sugar, salt etc, is just like consuming meat, because up to now in general, peoples already know about the CAFO`s, and knowing the fact how they process food but yet they still eat it just like in-taking sugar and salt like food.It`s like saying " once you pop you can`t stop", meaning the foods we eat is very addictive.
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