After watching films like Fast Food Nation, Super Size Me and Food, Inc. it is clear that America has some issues with food production that have yet to be addressed. The overruling corporations that create the meat we eat and the meat that fast food industries serve engage in completely immoral practices. The film Fast Food Nation shows the meat packing plants and how they operate business. The plant uses assembly line workers to prepare the cows meat for consumption. Often the stomach of the cow is ripped open, leaking the contents of the intestines in with the actual meat. There is feces that is now in the meat. In one single burger, there can be meat from hundreds of cows. This means that if there is a disease in the meat and someone gets sick there is no way of tracking where the cow came from. This is what happened during the E. coli breakout. Food, Inc. shows chicken raising houses and speaks with a woman who grows chickens for Tyson. She explains how the chickens have antibiotics put into their food and other chemicals to make them grow at a faster rate. While this may be great for the companies because they can produce more product in a shorter time frame, it is absolutely horrendous for the chicken. They cannot support their own weight. Keep in mind these antibiotics and pesticides in the chicken are now in your system too if you are consuming the meat. Super Size Me shows how fast food makes one crave more and more and is horrible for your health as well as overall well-being. In this article, it states "The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) all agree that using penicillin and tetracyclines (antibiotics used to treat humans) in animal feed to bulk animals up and cause them grow faster is an unacceptable threat to public health." Now this seems like many organizations that all feel the same way, but yet the FDA chooses not to ban these antibiotics, not for safety or health reasons, but "any ban will be too expensive." These organizations want to use antibiotics only when an animals needs it, not inject it into all of the food. Not only are these pesticides used in animals food, but also agriculture. An article on CNN shows, "Children exposed to common pesticides are more likely to have problems with attention span, according to a new study that followed mothers and children from the time of pregnancy, to age 5.
The chemicals in question – organophosphates – have mostly been banned from household pesticides, but are widely used in agriculture. At high doses, they are known to be highly damaging to the brain and nervous system." This seems more immoral that injecting these pesticides into our food anyway! I think the FDA needs to look into these issues and examine the problems that these injections cause in humans.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034148_antibiotics_animal_feed.html#ixzz1fEU26UtR
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/19/pesticide-exposure-linked-to-adhd/?iref=allsearch/
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