Eric Schlosser

Halleigh Benner Dr. Wiley English 701 Section 21? Contaminated M immerse either Step Of The Way Eric Schlossers book Fast pabulum realm, Michael Moss expression The Burger That Shattered Her Life and the docudrama Food Inc. all come together to inform people on the facts ab come out of the closet the pabulum diligences contamination issue. The food industry has many slaughterhouses and m beat packing industries in the United States. slew never think about where there spirit has come from, how it is prep bed, stored, or get up. Unfortunately, the sanitation of our meat from where it starts to when we eat it is appalling.Many raises now raise stemma in mass groups in dirty surroundingss, they gather into unsanitary slaughterhouses to be killed with unsanitary utensils, methods, and machinery, the meat gets combined with early(a) meat in filthy meat packing industries, and is past packed a direction for us to eat. Farms should raise cattle how they used to be increase, consumers should make healthy and wiser decisions on their choices of meat, people need to demand better food resort hold waterards by re-introducing Kevins law.The industry doesnt want you to know the truth about what you are eating, because if you knew then you might not want to eat it, but now the truth is revealed. Our farm animals such as chickens and cattle are not raised how they used to be raised. In the documentary Food Inc. many farmers would not let the camera crew inside the chicken houses, but one woman that was interviewed did. Carole Morison said, I understand why farmers do not want to talk because the big companies that they are controlled by can cut pay. Companies control everything about what the farmers do but Carole also stated, It is not right what is going on and I made up my top dog that I am going to say what I want to say, it doesnt matter any much any(prenominal)thing has to be said. The documentary showed that her chicken house was full of dust an d feces everywhere. The mass amount of chickens cooped up shutdown together couldnt escape from the unsanitary environment. Many chicken farms are exactly like hers. Carole said, This isnt farming anymore, it is mass production. The spread of disease is more likely inwardly these mass production chickens because Carole aware us, Antibiotics are put into the feed, but the bacteria builds up a resistance and the antibiotics dont wee anymore. Cattle are not any different than the chickens. The documentary Food Inc. showed viewers that feedlots contain hundreds of terrifys that stand ankle deep in their own manure all day long. If one cow has a disease such as, E. coli then the others will acquit a higher risk of acquiring the disease as well.The unhealthy sanitation of our food even begins when the cows and chickens are alive in their environment that they are being raised. The environment of slaughterhouses where the livestock is killed is horrific and disgusting. To hide these sickening scenes, most slaughterhouses are simple buildings with no windows to see inside. In the book Fast Food Nation, the author Eric Schlosser put on knee high boots because his host from the slaughterhouse said, Tuck your pants into the boots, well be walking by some blood (Pg. 169). Walking through deep puddles of blood is unhygienic.If one cows blood is septic and is then mixed with other blood that is gathered into puddles on the ground histrions concur to walk through the puddles and it can contaminate machines, utensils, or other meat that is being worked on by the puddles being splattered. bacterium grows and spreads in moist and humid conditions. Eric Schlosser states, The kill floor is hot and humid. It stinks of manure. Cattle wipe out a personate temperature of about 101 degrees, and there are a lot of them in the room (Pg. 170). Bacteria boom out in these places and can be harmful to us in the long melt. The process of how our meat is made is unhealthy.The article The Burger That Shattered Her Life by Michael Moss stated, Slaughterhouses take over the potential for contamination every step of the way (Pg. 3). It all begins with the removal of the hide from the cows. Food Inc. the documentary brought up a great issue that shows the viewers that when cows come to these slaughterhouses, their hides are caked with manure. To begin, hides must be removed carefully to keep the manure by of the meat but with the commotion and the speed of the slaughterhouse process, this causes high risks of the meat being contaminated with feces.Workers and inspectors from the article The Burger That Shattered Her Life say, Much can go wrong, workers slicing away the hide can inadvertently spread feces to the meat, and large clamps that hold the hide during processing sometimes slip and smear the meat with feces (Pg. 3). Next before transferred to the meat packing part is the gutting station, where the intestines are removed. Eric Schlosser from Fast Foo d Nation said, I see a man reach inside a cattle and pull out their kidneys with his bare hands (Pg. 170).After a person reads this statement from Eric Schlosser, it will make people wonder if he washed his hands before he put them back into another cattle. More than likely the worker didnt because of the speed that the process is going. These careless actions that can be prevented can spread E. coli or other diseases to meats that could cause an entire factory to contain it because of the mixing of meat in the meat packing process. fixings in the meat packing industry get mixed with other meat from different slaughterhouses within the United States.For example in the article The Burger That Shattered Her Life, Ms. Smiths patty contained trimmings from a slaughterhouse in Uruguay (Pg. 4). Mixing meats from different slaughterhouses is not a good idea, because their regulations could be completely different, especially a slaughterhouse from a different country. Grinding contaminated meat can leave diseases on the machine and spread to other mixed meats that are being mixed in the same grinder. not mixing meats and sanitizing machines and utensils, every slaughterhouses meat can become Grade A.Cattle and other farm animals such as, chickens and pigs should be raised traditionally, in a grass pasture with enough room for them to run around and not having to stand in their own manure. A farmer in the film Food Inc. agreed, Having cows in a pasture they eat and fertilize the grass, the cycle is better for the environment and for them. The healthy the animals begin their life the more likely their meat for us to eat will be healthier and not contaminated. The only problem with this solution is that people in this world today are more worried about money and how much they can receive.The more cattle and chickens farmers can raise in the shortest amount of time is better for them and the company, that they are controlled by. Many mass production farmers do not anno ying about their consumers health because it is sometimes seen as the consumers own responsibility. Consumers have the ability to use up which meat they want to buy depending on where the meat has come from. They can choose meat that was produced locally or they can read labels to trace back to a preferred and trusted factory and or company. Consumers could also buy their own cow of their choosing and have it butchered for their selves personally.However, many people do not have the time to go into detail to find out where their meat has come from, especially many do not have the money to buy their own cow and have it butchered. Another solution is to re-introduce Kevins law for E. coli contamination. The people have the ability notify the congress to enforce food safety standards and re-introduce Kevins law. According to the documentary Food Incorporated, Kevins law would give back to the farming the power to shut down plants that repeatedly produce contaminated meat. For Kevin s law the government is seek to fix this problem with expert inspectors but it will take a while for these experts to be employ and the process to expand everywhere in the United States. Therefore, meat contamination and geting rid of unsanitary utensils, methods, and machinery will decrease at a slow rate.In addition, in the documentary of Food Inc. it was stated, People that ridicule the food industry can be charged because the food industry has different protections than other industries do. For example, Oprah Winfrey was sued by a Texas cattleman for demeaning a food product and for the loss of profit. Mass amounts of people need to stand up to this unfair protection over the food industry. One person cannot do it many have to create a movement. Enhancing food safety programs will benefit our lives. In conclusion, our futures health is ultimately at stake and people need to do something to change it. The sanitation of our meat starts from the environment that the livestock liv es in and takes a domino effect until their meat ends up on our plates to eat.Surprisingly people have to worry about the food sanitation in the United States, and it is sad to realize that people have to be worried about the food provided in our country. However, this issue can be resolved. Solutions such as, livestock being raised in a healthy environment by the traditional way, consumers can make better choices for their selves, and they can also stand up for the rights of being able to eat meat without worrying. variety in the food industry will change our health for the better.