In the video, you learn that the animals that make the majority of the meat that we eat are abused and left in overcrowded areas for most of their lives. They are hung by hooks and slaughtered in unsanitary conditions. This is disgusting!
The FDA is led by many government officials who really don't care about our health, but instead care about us supporting their organizations in which they are closely entwined. The businesses don't care about selling a quality or sanitary product to us. Their only concern is that they sell as much product to the consumer at the highest price for the lowest production cost. When people get sick or die from the unsanitary product, the businesses only care about keeping themselves in business and try to brush the illness and deaths "under the rug." Is this how we want businesses run? Isn't it wrong for government officials to work so closely with the big-businesses?
Beside keeping the animals in overcrowded and unsanitary environments, feeding all of the animals corn is another way that the majority of meat industries save money while producing the meat. Corn is a vegetable that has been genetically engineered and is mass-produced and used in many different forms. Did you know that corn is used in almost everything you eat?
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Some of these ingredients that include corn are very familiar, but over half of them are almost unrecognizable and difficult to pronounce. Doesn't that seem scary? The reason that corn is so widely used is that it has been crossed with a bacteria fighting organism that allows it to be mass produced at the cheapest price possible because it withstands both bacteria and the pesticides used on it.
Pesticides used on corn soak into the vegetable itself, so even if you wash your produce multiple times, you will still be ingesting the pesticides that have made it into the core of the plant. This is one of the reasons why it is very important to eat organic foods.
Going organic helps ensure that people are eating safe products that have not had hard chemicals used on them. If you buy organic meat, you are sure to have meat that has been treated properly without the ammonia baths that the conventional meat companies use. It allows ensures that the animals from which the meat is derived have been allowed a natural organic diet and have been allowed outside environment for the majority of their lives. Going organic is a very important change that anyone with the means to, should do.
Watching this video really changed how I viewed food, and I believe that it is a necessary video for everyone to see. Although the video was disgusting, it was rightfully so. But the reality is that the video depicted real stories, real events, and showed real "farmhouses" from where we get our food products. If it weren't disgusting, I wouldn't be encouraging myself and others to seek the necessary change in the products we eat. I urge you to watch the video, if you haven't already, and make the change to eating organically!
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