America's Food Supply

 

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This image represents the how chickens are currently being treated at Perdue.

Perdue is a major chicken processing company located in the United Stated since 1992. this company made six billion dollars in 2013. Yet this company according to their labels is know to raise their chickens in a humane way and cage free; a research was done proving the complete opposite.

In the articled titled Abusing Chickens We Eat from The New York Times, compiled by Nicholas Kristof, on December 3, 2014, it gives the reader a more in depth perspective on what really occurs behind the scenes of a chicken farm, specifically Perdue. The authors argument is that chickens should be treated humanly and if they are not, the company should not mislead the consumer by saying that they are when they are not. Nicholas supports his argument by stating that 85% of consumer would prefer to buy a chicken that has been raised humanly. Also by mentioning that Perdue raises their chicken in awful conditions, their chickens appear to have lost their feathers and are raw, anger, red flesh. the reasons to be seem that this company is using what is known as modern breeding; this is where chickens are bred to be full grown in a short period of time and are also bred to have huge breast, which are too heavy for their legs. Also this company uses false advertisement by stating that their chickens are raised cage free. Perdue's chickens are raised in a cramped, dirty environment, so tight that they might ass well be in cages.

This article is summed up by one of its quotes "Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That's agribusiness." This basically explains the amount of hypocrisy behind food corporations and the government.

There was an unsanitary living conditions in 1906. From flys on food, excarment on the road, and dead animal in the streets. This would cause a huge among of sicknesses and a large amont of deaths within the people. But nobody would think that all these illnesses was coming from the products we consume. In 1906 a novel written by Upton Sinclair opened the eyes of many people by exposing the reality behind meat stalk yards. This novel said that there was rats crawling on the meat and it would still be sold. There was many other disgusting facts involving the products. That information also got across to president Roosevelt and worked to get the Meat Inspection Act passed. This helped by restricting the amount of freedom food companies had and by giving the consumer products produced in sanitary conditions. This act is still reinforced today and has only gotten stronger.

My opinion regarding this article is that I agree 100% with the authors arguments. If a company isn't treating their animal products humanly, they should not give the consumer false advertisement.  Yet 

 these companies should really give a second look on their management and try and change the way  

they handle their products. Though this article is full with eye opening information, I will not stop eating chicken because "I love me some chicken", quoted by Danny Blas. What I will do is make sure that the chicken I do eat is raised in a humane environment. A company that does raise their chickens humanly is Foster Farms.



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This image is to represent how a chicken should live. Free the chickens from cruelty.