Chickens

Have you ever thought of where you food comes from?  Personally when I’m eating none of those thoughts come across my mind. When comparing fast food and a classy restaurant the food seems to be ten times better in the nicer place. I was recently enlightened on how all our food is processed when watching a movie in Miss A’s class on the treatment of animals and how they are made into our food.

No one wants animals to be mistreated. Everyone in their hearts has soft spots for animals and it is very difficult to watch any of them to be mistreated in any way. As a society it is looked down upon to be cruel to animals…but why is it okay for farmers and factories to mistreat animals to make food for a profit? I don’t think that many people have any idea how farmers and production companies handle their product.  Tyson has many farmers working under them and they give specific instructions on how they want their chickens raised. They want them all in the dark with thousands of thousands of other chicken’s crammed in there. They make them gather all the chickens at night that way they can’t fight back as much. They also have engineered chickens that grow at an insane rate and get super fat.

Tyson and all the other packaging companies want the farmers to make their product faster, cheaper, and fatter. That is their motto. They don’t care how they are treated as long as they get the money. They engineered the chickens to have large breasts because that is where all the meat is and that’s what the people want. By the time they are almost full grown they can’t stand up because they are so heavy and their feet can’t handle the weight.

The farmers are under all the companies control and they know that. The farmers don’t make a lot of money but they have to keep doing their work to live. Another bad part of it is that the companies keep making them updating their equipment and they don’t have the money to do it. If they don’t do it they will be unemployed in a second, no one wants to be out of a job.  (378)