Food Inc. Who knew?

Would You Rather Have this?

                                                                     Or This?

Before watching Food Inc. I never really thought about how our food becomes food. Like I know they had to kill cows or chickens but I never really put a sense of meaning behind it. But once seeing this movie I can’t stop thinking about all the horrible things that people do to animals to get there meat.  I know I could never become a vegetarian but after that movie I defiantly went a different route when eating my chicken. Seeing how those chickens were kept was disgusting. All of them running around in their own fesses and not being able to move was horrible. Seeing thoes chickens locked up in thoes cages will stay with me forever. Seeing that when they had to go to the bathroom they would have to go right there and the chicken underneath them would then have their remains on thier feathers.It was such a distrubing sight. The same thing was happening to the cows they weren’t allowed to move and stayed in one spot most of the day. How they killed them was ten times worse. Still to this day I couldn’t figure out if the cows got squeezed to death or what. But no matter what that’s no way to kill an animal. After seeing all these dreadful things that are supposedly legal they showed us another way of treating animals. On one side you have the commercial side which is full of pesticides and cruelty but on the other side you have that country farmer down the street that’s letting his animals eat the right things, letting them roam around, and just plain out letting them live their lives. Commercialized farming for Tyson or any other chicken brand is like being there slave. You have to go by their rules and make sure you are doing what they want you to do. If that means being brutal to chickens so be, if that means killing cows in harmful ways then do it. However on the other hand this farmer lets his chickens and cows have a place to play and walk. He feeds his animals what they should eat not what’s cheap. He might not kill them in the most sympathetic way (slicing chickens necks) but it gets the job done and done right. It is not the nicest thing but He is someone with morals. Nevertheless, he is the one who is facing problems with the law. The law tries to make everything go one way and if someone tries to change that they will put it into a legal battle till the little man can’t afford going on. It is a bully type of situation that needs to be stopped. After watching this it really made me think what I was putting into my body. All these pesticides and fesses and just nasty stuff are just not healthy or smart to put into your body. It really opened my eyes to how natural preservatives are a really big thing and how hormones in the animal’s body are really bad for them. Ever since that movie I have looked at the chicken and meat in a totally different way. I make sure where meat comes from and see what exactly it has in it before I buy it.