Animals

I was always fascinated with how things get to us.  From the products sold at retail to the foods, we eat every day either homemade or from restaurants or from our favorite fast food places.  I had recently covered how workers are treated at Walmart so for this blog I'm going to be covering a sliver of how our foods are often brought to us.  Specifically, how we get the meats we eat almost every day provided to us by the meat producers.  The images we see at stores with cows on the big green fields is not what usually happens in reality.  With big patches of land being used to raise and butcher cows usually not having a single blade of grass.  It's just mud and feces the majority of the time.  Which than contaminates the meat in cows and pigs and any other mass produced cattle modified to grow faster and bigger.  The contaminants are killed off with ammonia but at times E .coli outbreaks happen that have killed people in the past at the fault of poor safety regulations in the process of producing and packaging the meats.  Which the workers who are often poor or at times illegal immigrants having no say in what is happening the majority of the time as they could face termination.  With the illegal workers facing the possibility of being deported with no protection from the companies. They also have the risk of catching illnesses in the work environment.  The workers are almost treated as animals themselves being replaceable sheep that could be eaten up and spit out by the companies that act like dogs.  Lashing out at anything that gets in their domain and at any living thing that opposes their power.  That's what I tried to get to.  The cattle are often beaten and abused.  Being fed corn and other foods that have GMOs in them to make them grow larger and at a faster rate even though it could bring negative effects that could hinder the animals.  With a common example being chickens, in which, they could not walk as they cannot catch up with the rapid growth they go through from the hormone inducing foods.  It's bad enough they live in cramped chicken pens in which they sleep, eat, and defecate in.  Stepping in their own feces and over the carcasses of dead hens.  It's what the average producer of chicken meat is.  Reminding me of what is deemed as normal in developing countries engulfed by war and a corrupt government.  A government that silences those who resist the rules, like the chicken farmers, they have no choice but to comply to keep a living.   What I really wanted to say is that the food industry as soon as a food chain to me.  With the workers being at the bottom, and the higher-ups being on the top.  A continuous cycle.  That is no different from what their jobs are from how the cattle are treated.  The workers being the sheep corraled in a small confined area for hours on end having no sense of the danger that hangs over them.  The higher-ups that control how things go being the dogs that keep the order in their own ways.  This is just another blog that I thought would be a good idea if I were to be honest but it could be seen as really weird to others, which I don't blame them for.