Our Food System is Rigged: How Corporate Food Industry is Taking Desperate Steps to Fight Animal Reforms
The article posted above discusses how food companies are fighting back against reforms for their despicable animal practices. In the article it touched on some of the labor practices and production methods used to grow chickens that were also shown in Food., Inc. but it also highlighted some that I was previously unaware of, like the practice of wire battery cages, which allowed the hen less than 67 square inches to spend their entire life in.
I suppose that the reason this article shocked me so much was not actually in learning that we abuse our food in the food industry, I already was aware of such practices. It bothered me to the core because of the response of the food industry. Much like the push back found by Sanger during a meeting to discuss America's growing obesity problem (The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food) industry executives insist that this type of abuse is what the public want, claiming that it is safer for consumption, and it is the consumers responsibility to decide what they want done to their food, not the actions of the company preforming the acts.
The article posted above discusses how food companies are fighting back against reforms for their despicable animal practices. In the article it touched on some of the labor practices and production methods used to grow chickens that were also shown in Food., Inc. but it also highlighted some that I was previously unaware of, like the practice of wire battery cages, which allowed the hen less than 67 square inches to spend their entire life in.
I suppose that the reason this article shocked me so much was not actually in learning that we abuse our food in the food industry, I already was aware of such practices. It bothered me to the core because of the response of the food industry. Much like the push back found by Sanger during a meeting to discuss America's growing obesity problem (The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food) industry executives insist that this type of abuse is what the public want, claiming that it is safer for consumption, and it is the consumers responsibility to decide what they want done to their food, not the actions of the company preforming the acts.