Sunday, March 29, 2015
Don't Like It, Don't Eat It!
The nature and production of our food is more or less unseen by us, the consumer. We do not know how our food comes about and what processes they undergo before they get on our dinner plate, as described in Wendell Berry's article, The Pleasures of Eating. In the case of genetic engineering, I think all of us were aware that our food is altered in a number of ways to get specific desired traits, such as prolonging drought and being resistant to pesticides. GMOs are a common subject of study in our science classes today so none of us were taken back by it. It seems like what did surprise some of us was the treatment of cows and chickens during the process of raising them to eventually become food as showed in Food Inc. I believe what we need to realize is that these animals weren't raised to live a full life, but rather raised to be food for us. They will die from us consuming them eventually anyways so their treatment shouldn't be so sympathized. I think if the treatment of these animals bothers you enough, the only solution is to just not eat the product at all.
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Like you said before most of us weren't surprised at the fact that our foods are modified but at the way our meat is raised. I don't necessarily like the way animals are raised but it seems kind of impossible to not eat meat. Realizing that the animals raised to be consumed by humans aren't supposed to live full lives suppresses some feelings towards the way they are treated, but some of the things they have to go through are crazy.
ReplyDeleteI have thought the same thing as you have described above. These animals aren't raised to be a family pet, but rather the food that keeps us alive. Although the animals are sometimes mistreated, how can we feel badly for them when we are eating? If it weren't for the techniques that made these animals develope over a shorter period of time we wouldn't be getting the food we have. Like you said, if we don't like it, we shouldn't eat it.
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