Blog Four: From Farm to Fridge

In this blog I will disscuss the harsh images shown in the eye opening video "From Farm to Fridge". In this video the evils of factory farming are captured. The video captures chicks getting the tips of their beeks removed, and piglets getting their testicles ripped off while they are concious. Factory farmers chopped off the tails of cows and snapped the necks of chickens, then just tossed them. Dead pigs were just piled on top of each other.

Blog Three: The End Of Over Eating

In this blog i will disscuss how the urge for food can be reinforced by location. First let me explain to you about The End Of Over Eating by David Kessler. In this book David Kessler critically examines the causes of over eating.

Fast Food Nation- "The Most Dangerous Job"- Contradiction

In Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Schlosser describes the relationship between the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the meatpacking industry. The OSHA is the agency that is responsible for giving the meatpacking industries' safety regulations and making sure that those safety regulations are being followed. According to Schlosser  "In 1981 the agency adopted a new policy of "voluntary compliance"(179). In other words the OSHA's new policy allowed the meatpacking industries' to pick and choose the regulations they wanted to follow. This is a contradiction because the OSHA is responsible for the safety of millions of workers, yet their new policy allows the meatpacking industries' to cut corners when it comes to safety.