Farms Owner Summary

Factory farming is a practice that is used to keep up and sustain the supply and demand for different types of animal meat. A poultry factory farm that will be discussed is Perdue Farms. Perdue Farms is established and operated in the United States and has a processing facility where they raise and slaughter chickens. Perdue Farms is meeting the needs of the consumers by supplying and mass producing poultry for consumption. One may view this of being a success by having a well-established, profitable business that is fulfilling their responsibilities to the consumers. While that may be true, they are not fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the animals. These animals are in close quarters where they are nested in urine and feces. There can even be instances where they will be sitting on or near deceased chickens until their cage is chosen for slaughter. Since these animals are massively produced the use of hormones and antibiotics are used to sustain life and growth. On top of the poor, dirty living conditions these animals are also giving additives that will eventually make it to the consumer. The process has an impact on those employed by the corporation and those who purchase products from them.

American agriculture can produce more food on less land and at cheaper cost than any other nation. Did anyone ever wonder why or how? The documentary Food Inc., produced by Robert Kenner, is designed to put the spotlight on the unsafe preparation of food products, the inhuman treatment of animals being used, and the unethical treatment of workers in corporate farming. Robert Kenner uses multiple rhetorical analysis to get his aspect across to his viewers. Throughout the movie, there are several claims to appeal of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to uncover the true secrets of the American food during its journey to the table.

Kenner uses the rhetorical strategy ethos by introducing important people of the food industry to the people of America. Kenner introduces us to Joel Salatin. He runs the farm called “Polyface farms”. He compares amd explains in the movie/documentary how his farm is ran and how the animals are fed and treated compared to corporations like Smithfield and Tyson. Kenner features the “Polyface Farm” from anywhere to what the animals eats to where the animals live. Salatin acknowledges that his animals do not eat corn or any product with corn involved. Salatin guides us through the process of killing chickens and how they are handled and packaged. Kenner also compared this process with with huge corporations like Tyson and how their chickens are killed. Tyson has their chicken coops packed with so many that the chickens are unable to move around so when chicken farmers feed the Tyson chickens they all keep gaining weight since they are big that they can con carry their own weight anymore. The chicken farmers emphasize that Tyson tries to make every chicken look alike so that when that chickens are packaged there will not be a huge size discrepancy. Another man interviewed in the movie/documentary is Moe Parr. Parr was a seed cleaner for local farmers around their town. Parr addressed that Monacello (seed company) was sueing him for cleaning seeds. Monasello’s argument was that they have a contract with every farmer who buys seeds from them; that when they save their seeds that they are expected to send those seeds back to the

The living conditions of chickens are dreadful and appalling. What came first the chicken or the egg? Chicken farming is found particularly in the Southeast margin of the United States (“Factory Farm Map”). It is explained that, “chickens and hogs on factory farms have no access to the outdoors, fresh air or natural light” (“Factory Farms Map”). This exemplifies one situation of how chickens are poorly treated in the factory farms. In addition, even before the chickens are born, they are treated horribly. More than 125,000 to one million hens can be living in the same factory together (Hobson). Along with crowded living spaces, these animals suffer being “docked,” which means they are declawed and stripped of all teeth (Hobson). This shows how bad the conditions

Throughout the text, the writers for Vegan Outreach quote well-known sources including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which they focus on to persuade the reader to trust them. However, if the reader were to actually pay attention to the content of the words rather than the popularity of the newspaper, they would recognize that the statements throughout the New York Times are purely conjecture as opposed to the informative content for which they are searching. As declared, “[o]ur own worst nightmares . . . are also real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born beneath these grim steel roofs, into the brief, pitiless life of a ‘production unit’” (4). This quote is said to have come from the New York Times, though it does not suggest any concrete facts, rather it states appalling things that are happening to farm animals without evidence.

We walked the farm seen the animals and crops that were there and learned the ways of having a traditional organic farm the benefits from it the proper ways that one type of plant can in effect have a dramatic effect in the sustainability of another and how there in ways interdependent on each other examples are that one plant has a natural repellant for insects that in effect can help the other plants that are effected by that insect to how the trees and bushes are grown in a way that actually gives the other plants shade from the sun. We learned about the organic feeding that the animals are given and the free range that they have so that the animals have no stress upon them as David says that the only time that they are under stress is when they are about to processed for slaughter. Michael Pollan discusses this in detail in the book expressing that this is in fact that sustainable farming is farming type that was common place in the 60s and now in modern times is making a comeback due to consumers being more aware of the foods and want to ensure the purity and health implications on their food

It’s problematic that we don’t question the food we eat whether it be from McDonalds or a fancy upscale restaurant. We need to be more aware of what is going on around us especially when the food we eat is causing an array of health issues for us. The unsanitary conditions found within the factory farm industry contributes to the pathogens found in the meat we eat. As the saying goes you get what you pay for. Factory farming is based upon producing large quantities of meat at a very low cost. This driving force behind the system is not worth getting food poising or something detrimental. In the chapter “Influence / Speechlessness” the habitats of the chickens are displayed “jamming deformed, drugged,

No matter how “humane” the slaughtering or farming of animals is, it is always immoral. A growing trend in the animal farming business is to label meat “grass-fed.” These companies claim that they use humane methods of slaughter that make it easier on

Gene Baur has written two successful informative books including descriptions of Farm Sanctuary, rescue stories, vegan recipes, and the truth behind factory farming. Farm Sanctuary provides one to three month internships for those interested in learning how to raise animals humanely. The Watkins-Glen Farm Sanctuary offers three cabins available to rent for vacationing guests with modern amenities. Each sanctuary location offers space to rent for special occasions such as weddings or birthday parties and all events include a one hour tour of the property (farm Sanctuary). Gene Baur quotes visitors of Farm Sanctuary calling it, “the happiest place on earth.” Farm Sanctuary also hosts over one hundred education events each year often with celebrity appearances from individuals like Martha Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, Mary Tyler Moore, Emily Deschanel, Chevy Chase and many more (Baur, Stone xi). Farm Sanctuary’s website, farmsanctuary.org also includes ample learning tools about factory farming and the effects on each species. One can also find guidelines on how to care for farm animals. The Farm Sanctuary website also includes links where one can easily contact state and federal legislation regarding agricultural farming issues. Links found on farmsanctuary.org offer contact with large companies, such as Costco who purchase from inhumane factory farms (farm Sanctuary). Farm sanctuary

Food inc. is a documentary on the horrors of the industrialized food industry of the United States. The documentary exemplifies the purely wretched nature of highly industrialized and subsidized farming practices that take place on CAFO’s (Confined animal feeding operations) that harm each one of us who doesn’t take the extra initiative to find alternatives. The documentary also exposes the enforced situations that big corporations place upon farmers big and small. Food inc. doesn’t give many solutions to these issues but it is meant to be paired with the documentary entitled “Fresh.”

The food industry does not want you to know the truth about what happens within America’s farms, because if you knew, you would not want to eat again. The truth is that these are not farms where our food is coming from, they are factories. Factory

The factories are in no way better than the farms that produce just as efficiently as them, argues Joel Salatin, a Polyface Farm owner. Salatin's usage of ethos shows how much of a slight difference there is between industrial food producers and farmers such as himself with his position of working as an owner of a farm. Using Salatin's experience and lifestyle on the farms, we can take into account that he's credible. Factories have very unnatural products that are present in their food to cope with the immense need for meat. The farms, however, are natural producers and are capable of feeding the mouths that need feeding as well. Farmers' methods to go about providing food takes less time than that of a factory. Compared to a factory, farms

Throughout the interview the farmer discusses how Tyson will require her to update her farms in order to increase production and require her to pay for it which cause her to go into to more debt. A statistic given by the documentary states that, “ a farmer pays around $500,000 to open 3 chicken farms, and the average chicken farmer makes around $18,000 per year.” This statistic given in the documentary goes to show how the companies like Tyson maximize profit by outsourcing the work where they do have to pay the expenses of operating the farms. Along with the endless debt that is piled up there are countless side effects that come from growing the chickens and operating a chicken farm. Side effects like diseases, becoming immune to antibiotics, and the filth that surrounds the operation of a chicken farm. The debt that farmers accumulate gets to such a large number that there is no way out of the business and must deal with being connected to their company. With all the upgrades that are demanded by big poultry companies like Tyson or Perdue, and, “between 2004 and 2006 chicken farmers spent over $650 million on upgrades to their chicken farms, an average of $38,000 per farm.” This debt that is racked up is taking out by loans that farmers must pay back to the banks with no assistance from the big poultry companies. Though the

The Chicken industry has set a model for all meat industry’sth because they want All the birds coming off the farms to be the same size, creating affordable prices, and big profit. But at what cost? The first cost is to the farmers. These farmers, like the chickens, mean nothing to companies like Tyson, because the farmers have no rights and therefore can not complain and the Companies keep farmers under control by creating debt.

In the article “The Animals: Practice complexity” By Michael Pollan, he talks about Joel Salatin’s farm and how there’s a certain relationship between the environment and animals while showing the complicity of farming. Pollen explains Saltin’s agriculture practice with farming. Joel Saltin shows how he deals with the “by products” of his farm, and how the animals rely on it. Pollen was intrigued by Satins farm and impressed with his style of raising his farm. Pollan explained why his farm was so successful based on certain aspects that Satin would do that is completely different from other farmers. This was an amazing article to peruse about. Without outside materials based on agriculture, you can still