So here's the forewarning to this entire post, I just watched Food Inc. on a recommendation from Charlie. I swear she's trying to make an activist out of me...
Watching that documentary, all I can really say is our food system is fucked up. And I honestly don't understand how people haven't thrown a fit over it yet... Cows getting e. coli because they're standing ankle deep in their own shit and eating corn when their bodies are made to process grass, which by the way, switching them to a grass diet for a day kills 80% of the e. coli infecting them.... Companies making it impossible to get sued meanwhile silencing farmers and the general populace by threatening them with taking away their jobs, never ending legal battles that take away their meager livelihoods, patents destroying any farmer's hopes of growing their own food because they can't keep their own seed and if their crops get contaminated by pollen from a Monsanto crop then they have to fight legal battles with Monsanto... Animals that never see the light of day because the meat companies think its unsanitary for them to be outside...
I just can't even handle this... there is NOTHING that is alright with any of this. I think this has just sealed the deal on me becoming a preferred vegetarian, in that I'll eat local meat, but none of this large corporation nonsense... Someone needs to stop them... And I'm gonna do my damnedest to make a difference.
There's something wrong with the world when FOUR companies control all the meat produced in the entirety of the United States. They have so much power that if any of the farmers try to fight them, they can just fire them like its nothing. And to the company, it truly isn't anything. But to the farmers, they've lost their entire livelihood.
I'm going to completely refuse to accept this anymore. Its time to enact some change.
If you're interested in watching Food Inc, it can be found online for free probably illegally... here.
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