Meet Your Meat

This week I spent my american environmental history class learning about the meat packing industry in america. We learned how it started, the conditions in the factories, and how those conditions affected the workers, animals & consumers.

After discussing FDA laws and how there is a lack of funding for the inspectors working for the FDA, I learned that many corners are cut by corporations because he laws stated by the FDA can not be enforced. Following this discussion, we watched a video of how animals have been treated, and how they continue to be treated, in the meat packing industry. The poor living conditions, the abuse, the abandonment, & the torture the animals endure for their entire lives, up until the slaughter house, is cruel, immoral, & just plain nauseating.

PLEASE watch this video, "Meet Your Meat", administer by PETA and narrated by Alec Baldwin to find out where your meat comes from when you buy it at a grocery store or go through the drive-thru line at any fast food restaurant. I am not trying to turn the world into vegetarians, merely trying to expose the meat packing corporations or what they really are. Everyone should know where their food comes from so each person can decide for themselves if that hamburger is really worth it.

(The following content is disturbing, violent & gruesome.)

Meet Your Meat