Food And Nutrition Project
Jessica Panzella
Mrs.H
11\20\14
Period 2
Many food industries are hiding what they do to their animals. I think that we all should have a right to know what is being done to the food we are eating. The poor animals are treated so bad but very few people acknowledge the harmful ways the animals are treated. The movie Food Inc has changed my perspective on the food i eat.
Animals are crammed in a tiny farm house. They can barely walk because of all the steroids injected in them. Hogs, unlike cattle, are dunked in tanks of hot water after they are stunned to soften the hides for skinning. As a result, a botched slaughter condemns some hogs to being scalded and drowned. Secret videotape shows hogs squealing and kicking as they are being lowered into the water. These poor animals have done nothing wrong to be treated this way. The meat industries do not want us to know of these harmful conditions.Hens spend their whole lives in these tiny cages, hardly able to move. Only being taken out to be slaughtered. As soon as they are born, chickens in the egg industry are sexed and accepted, or rejected. The rejected chicks are disposed off by either being suffocated, or being ground up alive in a grinding machine. Many animals are known to have died of dehydration, have frozen to death, or suffered other horrible deaths due to inadequate care.The people who do this kind of job lack compassion for animals, otherwise they could not do it. Their actions demonstrate their lack of respect and empathy for animals.Illegal slaughter houses can also slaughter farm animals and are active in all countries, including the US and UK. The animals are slaughtered in unsanitary conditions and are not fit for human consumption. We have slaughterhouses that will process 300, 400 cattle an hour, which is as
much as twice as many as anywhere else in the world. And it's that speed of production that can lead to foodsafety problems. When workers are working
Mrs.H
11\20\14
Period 2
Many food industries are hiding what they do to their animals. I think that we all should have a right to know what is being done to the food we are eating. The poor animals are treated so bad but very few people acknowledge the harmful ways the animals are treated. The movie Food Inc has changed my perspective on the food i eat.
Animals are crammed in a tiny farm house. They can barely walk because of all the steroids injected in them. Hogs, unlike cattle, are dunked in tanks of hot water after they are stunned to soften the hides for skinning. As a result, a botched slaughter condemns some hogs to being scalded and drowned. Secret videotape shows hogs squealing and kicking as they are being lowered into the water. These poor animals have done nothing wrong to be treated this way. The meat industries do not want us to know of these harmful conditions.Hens spend their whole lives in these tiny cages, hardly able to move. Only being taken out to be slaughtered. As soon as they are born, chickens in the egg industry are sexed and accepted, or rejected. The rejected chicks are disposed off by either being suffocated, or being ground up alive in a grinding machine. Many animals are known to have died of dehydration, have frozen to death, or suffered other horrible deaths due to inadequate care.The people who do this kind of job lack compassion for animals, otherwise they could not do it. Their actions demonstrate their lack of respect and empathy for animals.Illegal slaughter houses can also slaughter farm animals and are active in all countries, including the US and UK. The animals are slaughtered in unsanitary conditions and are not fit for human consumption. We have slaughterhouses that will process 300, 400 cattle an hour, which is as
much as twice as many as anywhere else in the world. And it's that speed of production that can lead to foodsafety problems. When workers are working