Greg and Javed: Enforce Existing Environment Laws

In the passage strengthen and enforce existing environmental laws, the section reads on reforming regulations in the CAFO’s.  The passage briefly informs how government allows the industry to self-regulate which in turn allows the factories to ignore laws and skip enforcement. The passage gives a list in compliance of consumer demands to establish a safer system. The list is as follows:

Limit the new factory farms on expansion of existing facilities until envinment and health safety standards are established.

Develop a federal approach to regulate factory farms ot lessen air pollution.

Its goes on to read on about 6 more rules to monitor factory farms on their bad habit of polluting ecological health. The regulations are guidelines for government to interfere with CAFO systems.

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Gregory & Javeds Findings

THE VEGGIE LIBEL LAWS: The freedom of speech is diminished and food companies have the “right” to sue other companies and other individuals within the thirteen states(Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North& South Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.) due to the law that allows persons within these states to file lawsuits and sue others.  For example in a 1996 episode of Oprah’s talk show, she said “It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger” (Tomaselli, Niles 320). Stating her opinion on her talk show due to the way she felt she was hit with a lawsuit from a company.  Therefore, companies have more power over society than the government over its own people.
ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION: Establishing a controlled ecological environment, while trying to manage air pollution levels and maintain and reduce the pollution within society due to the CAFO& factory farm system. Agriculture has become one of the main contributors to the climate change and creation of greenhouse gases. The result of the waste being produced by the animals, society is at stake.
CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO PASSAGES: Although the Factory Farming system is polluting the people along with the environment, the people have no right to protect themselves against the monstrosity. The government neither feels it mandatory to protect its people while completely ignoring the bill of rights.

Bibliography

Below is a correct citation of a scholarly journal for my paper.


Since plants can show surprisingly sophisticated “choice” and “decision-making” mechanisms and yet we would not wish to imply that they are conscious, attribution of emotions to animals has to be done with care. Dawkins, Marian S. "Animal Minds and Animal Emotions." Integrative and Comparative Biology  40.6 (December 2011) 883-888. Print.

Blog 4 Farm-factory to Fridge

Reading about the torture and slaughter in eating animals is emotional. The difference in reading eating animals and watching farm to fridge is feeling the pain. That pain I couldn’t bear to watch, in a sense I felt the castration of the animal while I watched, as to reading about it my stomach would turn. In eating animals there is a statistic from an auditor Temple Grandin, who was disturbed when she saw the things like farm to fridge happening in her prescence, and how the wokers react in cruelty toward each animal and how they are brutalized. The statistic reads “32% of the plants she witnessed deliberate acts of cruelty occurring on a regular basis” she went on to say what they do when she is not in their presence.  If many of us knew what happens on the killing floor including these deliberate acts of torture we wouldn’t tolerate eating from factory farms no longer. These businesses do work hard to keep us from knowing the truth of factory farming in order to keep customers.

Blog 3 - Focusing and Forgetting

In Eating Animals by Johnathan Safran Foer's I related two key words for two different chapters they are focusing and forgetting. On page 101 he describes how abstract our relation with farm animals is, how we do not experience seeing them killed to become food, in that way we forget to think about how this animal arrives as food on our table. When we hear about how animals die we think about how only those last moments are harsh for them, we don't focus on how their whole lives, how they are destined for nothing more than to become a food product. Their living conditions that we forget to realize is harsh, animals are kept confined not allowed any movement and tortured. Cutting pigs teeth, cutting pigs tails off, searing chicken beaks off with a hot blade all of this is done without anesthetic. Cows pigs as well as chickens live in their own escrament destined to die unclean and miserable. This form of desensitization is an example that we don't focus on the lives of these animals and the continuous torture that they bear. Animals bleed as humans do that means they feel pain sadness and misery. In the book The Ethics Of What We Eat by Peter Singer he describes through research every animals intellectual capability and proves how they interact in the environment of factory farms as well as a natural habitat. This is a realization of how animals are nothing more than just things in the world of factory farming.

Blog 2 - Fast Meat equals Environmental Disaster

Ninety nine percent of meat we consume today comes from 12 different factory farm slaughter houses. In this summary I will share ideas from the book eating animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer, and inform of the environmental impact of factory farming has on our society. These factory farms alone have butchered the ethics of what we eat. Mass produced meats come along with hidden costs affecting the world in many ways as a cause for global warming "Animal agriculture makes a 40 percent greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change" this major factor alone is inspirational to change how we consume meat by adjusting our dieting habits (EA 43 Jonathan Saffran Foer). Runoff from lagoons which are loads of animal excrament, run off into streams and create dead-zones in which fish and other living animals cannot survive in the contaminated habitat. You are able to tell when youre close to a factory farm due to the smell. Which local residents are also affected, Enduring crappy air for most of their lives if they cant afford to leave. Aside from environmental damage it claims peoples lives, contaminated meat is sold and often not recalled or if companies are willing to recall it is too late. In the film Food Inc we meet a mother Barbara Kowalcyk who loses her son Kevin a two and a half year old boy. The meat was later recalled some months later. Factory Farming is dirty, and produces toxic meat to people for consumption.

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