Situation Analysis: Heifer In The Spanish Civil War

An introduction about the organization, where is located, what services or products does it provide.

I am writing to express my interest in the position of Heifer Village Coordinator. For the past year, I have been volunteering at Heifer Farm as a member of the Residential Education Team. My passion and admiration for Heifer International has been blazing since I participated in an Alternative Break Program at Heifer Ranch in my youth. Moved, amazed and more aware of the world around me - - I knew after leaving the Ranch I wanted to do everything within my power to continue to Pass on the Gift I had received. With this goal in mind, I set out on a journey to give back to Heifer, what Heifer had given to me -The gift of education! In the past year, I have worked with people from every walk of life (abilities, socioeconomic status, age, and

Farms Owner, Joel Salatin, regards society's continuous demand of specific wants from grown food, "fatter and cheaper" chickens and meat from cows, but they're not too eager in knowing what goes in those animals to achieve the demand. While Salatin uses some logos, providing information facts about the process the food industry goes through in order to achieve food companies' standards, Salatin makes better use of ethos as he provides us the portrayal of cows consuming self-sufficient grass; their manure goes to the grass and they eat the grass. He completes his ethos statements by providing a USDA reference, when USDA threatened to shut them down because of the unsanitary-open air shelter they're using to process chickens.

The estimated number of girls who will be impacted by this project is 30-40. The main three goals for the program are:

The purpose of this letter is to express my interest in the internship position with the Tennessee Beef Heifer Development Program. My current status as a member of the University of Florida Livestock Judging team and as a Sophomore Animal Science student with an emphasis in food animal production, make me an ideal candidate for this internship.

The idea of Heifer came from Dan West, a relief worker whose job was to ladle milk ration to the refugees of the “Spanish Civil War in 1937” (Heifer International 3). In the war, as he was helping the refugees by distributing milk, he noticed that the supply of milk will run out in due course if they keep on giving the milk to the poor people. Then he had an idea “What if they had not a cup, but a cow?” (Heifer International 2). It was a beginning of a new innovation, to not just help the poor but to help them achieve a long term benefit through sustainable resources (Heifer International 1).

Today approximately 1.1 million men women and children have benefited from more than 150 community projects. 60,000 students have access to quality learning spaces at what will soon be

They are one of the largest and most-well known corporation practicing CSR with their main focuses being the environment, community, and labor standards while focusing heavily on volunteerism. They give to charity and help those in need during a natural disaster for example the earthquake that occurred in Haiti, 2010 and those affected by

Our nation’s modern industrial farming has become more than only feeding people; it has become a way for the food industry to make more money as human population continues to grow. The food industry has transformed not only how people eat, but also has had negative effect on our climate as a result of factory farming as illustrated by Anna Lappe in “The Climate Crisis at the End of Our Fork”. Jonathan Safran Foer in his book Eating Animals, illustrates the effects factory farming has had on animals meant for human consumption. Furthermore, Foer asks many questions to the reader on what will it take for us to change our ways before we say enough is enough. The questions individuals need to be asking themselves are: how do we deal with the problem of factory farming, and what can people do to help solve these issues? Namit Arora in the article On Eating Animals, as well as Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, both address some of the issues that animals face once they hit the kill floor. Eric Schlosser in Fast Food Nation, also writes on the topic of animal abuse, and what goes unseen within the food industry as well as Bernard Rollin and Robert Desch in their article Farm Factories, both demonstrate what is wrong today with factory farming. The food industry today has impacted all facets of farming practices: from our Earth’s climate to the abuse animals endure, and the loss of old world agricultural farming

All over the world, people sit down to a meal which, for the vast majority, includes beef, pork or chicken. It is not too often these days that the consumer considers the life of the animal in which they are eating; or to even associate the slab of beef on one’s plate with an actual cow that lives, breaths and feels. When one hears cow, picturesque images of luscious green fields with spotted cows mooing and grazing peacefully fill your mind; and this is how much of our society believes cattle are raised for consumption. Instead, cattle are raised in what can be described as jail cells: holding pens, over crowded stalls with no room to move. Often times, these cows don’t even make it past their first few

Global agricultural production doubled four times between 1820 and 1975. Intensified animal production was seen as a way of providing food security and better nutrition. Pigs and cows began to be raised on factory farms in 1960s North America. Production shifted from the traditional model of extensive decentralised family farms to a more concentrated system of fewer producers and much larger numbers of animals confined in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO).

Modern animal agriculture, particularly intensive industrialised farming and the systematic slaughtering of animals, is a pressing ethical issue that deserves critical analysis. In Australia alone between 520 and 620 million animals are slaughtered in abattoirs every year for the purpose of human consumption (ABS). If we pause and ponder the scale of the systems involved in such practices, and the shear amount of animals killed, Heidegger's (1977) evocative assertion that “agriculture is now a mechanized food industry, in essence the same as the manufacture of corpses in the gas chambers and death camps, the same thing as the blockades and reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs” seems quite fitting, and ought to provoke us into contemplation. Thus, the topic which I will consider here is: what are the key components that allow and perpetuate modern industrial animal exploitation? In order to deal with this topic, I will propose three projects using distinct, yet complementary, paradigms. Namely, Marxist, Structural Functionalist, and Hermeneutic paradigms, which I regard as capable of elucidating the suggested issue. Furthermore, I shall offer an analysis of each proposal, and finally, will discuss how the different paradigms relate to, and complement, each other.

It captivate with Europe’s leading food companies, supporting products and initiatives which represent tangible benefits for farm animals. The charity bases its work on a solutions-led approach, developing relationships with food companies that are based on trust, mutual benefit and reward for progress. CIWF also works in partnership with other NGOs and the ability to keep something around and to combine farm animal welfare into public procurement, policy and reporting frameworks. IKEA and CIWF work together in harmonizing on improving farm animal welfare standards in IKEA’s food business.

The first and primary clientele are the youths who have no hope for the future given the poor educational background in Parubanga. They will participate in the project as project members. This clientele group will be the first priority to benefit from the project objectives.

Through its various programmes notably through the Empowering Dreams Project it provides financial and other such assistances to help secure the future of the girl child. The Empowering Dreams Project (EDP) is for 3 years. Typically girls pursue their graduation while being a part of this project. Almost all girls that I have interacted during the course of this study were a part of the EDP.