Sunday, May 20, 2012

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.  

No comments:

Post a Comment