We Must Stop The Meat And Poultry

“By 1999, to avoid labels that might drive customers away, most major European retailers had removed genetically modified ingredients from products bearing their brand.” (Chayka 1). Today most people seem to be more concerned about what is in their food. The author shows his concerns about GMOs and uses statistics to help his argument. All of the author’s reasoning makes me concerned and worried about our food and the safety of everyone else. People’s health is important for this world to survive and live a healthy lifestyle. GMO labels should be honest about their food no matter what issue they may face. People trust these brands and most likely stick with it for most of their lives. The important part of food companies is being honest with their ingredients, not interfering or harming other food companies, and ensuring the safety of its consumers.

Everyone has the right to know what's in the food that they are eating. It's upsetting how these massive corporations dominate American citizens. If everyone knew how much brutality was required to meet the demands of the fast food industry, I like to think the public would simply not tolerate it and demand that animals stop being designated property in law. I find it impossible to believe that if people knew the reality that they would not want animals to have recourse to legal protections from enduring lifetimes of nothing but abuse.

After watching the documentary “Food Inc.” It was surprising to find out how powerful the food industry has become. I learned about the meat industry, Monsanto, and genetically modified foods. The main goal of these industries is to increase profits, efficiently, and while shoving the best interests of the consumer to the side.

The next time you go into the grocery store, head straight for the meat department. Take a step back and take a long look at all of the packaged meat. You think to yourself, it’s the same meat you see every time you shop. Now go pick up a package, what do you see? You see pictures of farmers, the picket fence, the farmhouse, and cows grazing on green grass. The meat industry has dropped a curtain between our food, and us. They don’t want us to know where our food is coming from, because if we did, we might not want to eat it anymore. I’m here to help bring to light the horrors of the meat and dairy industry, and why you should care about your food.

Did you know that E.coli and salmonella outbreaks have been occurring so frequently in America that in 2007, there were about 73,000 cases of people sickened by E.coli? This is because we as consumers are not watching what we eat and think little of what is going on behind the closed doors of the food industry. In the well-known documentary Food Inc., it opens our eyes to the catastrophes of the food processing business and shows us just how much it is affecting our health and our lifestyle. With food being an important means of our survival, why is it doing us wrong rather than good, what exactly is going on between the government and the food industry, and what can we do to stop these industries?

In the modern era, large corporations are holding feedlots without respect for ethics or safety. They don’t consider the magnitude of the effects of their actions, and are heedless of the safety of the environment, the animals, and the public. In the end, these large corporations get away with it because of the lack of regulations and penalties that deter them from such practices. In essence, these problems have, and will continue, to persist due to the lack of funding for federal regulatory agencies, as well as the lack of public knowledge and outreach upon the issue. It’s important to note that the food industry must adapt to the demands of the market. If the public calls for safe and wholesome food, then it is the responsibility of producers

”Every day in the United states, roughly 200,000 people are sickened by a foodborne disease, 900 are hospitalized, and fourteen die,” said Schlosser; these statistics are astonishing! These food borne diseases are a result of thousands of cattle sitting in their own feces contaminating each other with pathogens. Afterwards the infected cattle are then slaughtered and given to thousands of people in the country and even the world. On 2010, my mom made beef tacos for dinner. The next day all eight of us got food poisoning and started vomiting for four days. Since that day, when I eat beef my stomach doesn’t feel the same. As I read fast food nation, I learned that 50% of beef contain E. coli 0157:H7. When I was young I didn’t comprehend food

Food is essential for life. This is a simple fact that leaves no room for inquiry. Not only does food provide sustenance, but a large part of community and culture relies upon the consumption of food and meals. Since the beginning of time food has been grown, cultivated, cooked, served, purchased, and consumed. The types of consumed foods are a large part of cultures all over the world. For food to be such a big component of life, humans have the right to know what they are eating. As food becomes more commercial and accessible, the source may not always be known. Genetically modified food (GMOs) are becoming more widely used. Consumers have the right to understand what they eat, and GMOs should not be forced into consumption. To increase awareness of GMOs, the source, health risks, and environmental effects of genetically modified food deserves to be known.

Traditional homestyle foods have completely changed. From growing our own crops and taking the time to properly cook our own food, to buying processed foods at shopping markets or simply going out to eat at fast food drive thru’s. It is safe to say that us humans used to eat healthy, but as time has passed we have let food industries manipulate and complicate our minds with marketing and food labels. Especially when regarding meat. We still seem to be mostly concerned about the intake of meat consumption while not even hesitating to question where exactly it came from or if it is even safe enough for us to consume. Food recalls and food inspections are great steps to ensuring one’s better health, but regulations should really be of our concern. It should be aware that the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has regulated meat and poultry processing for over a century now. The reason for doing so is to prevent chemicals, harmful substances, and pathogens from entering our daily food products.

The disregard towards nutrition is in dire need to be brought to attention and corrected. The average person knows very little about the proper consumption of food. Humans deserve greater understanding of what is being sold to them and what they blindly inhale. Ignorance is bliss but mindlessly consuming modified products, with no prior knowledge of them, is suicidal.

Hence, even though American markets are full of foods containing GM ingredients, the use of labels will create a cleaner, safer, and healthier food industry that appeals to the public interest. While consumers’ ignorance to the production of their foods creates safety issues, these risks can be alleviated by implementing a mandate that will require labels on foods that have been genetically modified. Moreover, it is essential that American citizens begin to tackle the issue of labeling GMOs by spreading the word and raising awareness so that people are more equipped to deal with the problem; in addition, citizens must press the producers of natural foods to label their products as a “non-GMO” and press the government to create a federal, or

Studies from UK cancers researched found that 66/1000 of people get or developed bowel cancers, but of a 1000 there are 55 that get bowel cancers from eating red meat according to test run by UK cancers researched. This group is part of who’s international Agency for research on cancer classifies on prassede. Meat altered through salting, curing, or smoke which is part of a group called carcinogen, this group has cancer-causing agents that is included in smoking, asbestos. Red meat isn’t as bad as that but it linking to cancer agents like smoking. They are looking for what red meat has the most chance of causing cancers for example; beef,veal,mutton , lamb are all classified as carcinogenic. IARC studies show in a health tip about how much

Science, chemical and big name companies had done hazardous experiments with the consumer’s food without the world’s communities approval and it still continues today. Genetically modified organisms have contaminated the food supply. “A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced in the genes of an unrelated plant or animal” (Seeds of Deception). The results have no health benefits, only financial benefits to the companies that produce them. The genetically modified organisms of animals or plants today hurt the environment and are causing health problems in the nation, and even around the world; a promise which made supposedly better

“By slipping it into our food without our knowledge, without any indication that there are genetically modified organisms in our food, we are now unwittingly part of a massive experiment” says journalist Arjun Walia (Walia). GMOs need to be labeled, for it is the consumers’ health at risk while the farming companies focus solely on the cost-efficient qualities and profit of their dangerous products, not to mention their ethical violation of nature.

Since the 1900’s the food industry has genetically modified and added supplements to our foods in order to provide big companies year long produce and products. Although the food industry is technically part of the real estate industry; these politician should step down from businessmen to conscience human beings. Most scholars in the field believe that the Western diet has the worst combination of nutrients, and is the main cause in the rise of premature death and illnesses. In the United States, every one in three people are affected from E. coli disease or some other stomach diseases which can potentially lead into death. Also the techniques used for agriculture and raising livestock have adequately changed to GMOs and unsanitary cultivation in order to make mass production much easier. As a result of the tremendous amount of revenue being made annually, politician endlessly ignore the controversial issue of death caused from contaminations. Although a major small steps we can all contribute to is start a change in our community; by influencing others to research what they are consuming and to stay active.