Food

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1.   "By contrast, genetic engineering uses pieces of genetic material separate from organisms. Scientists add or remove segments of DNA, use splicing to recombine them in laboratories, and insert the pieces into genomes."

Robertson, M. (2017). Sustainability Principles and Practice. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 226.

     I think genetic engineering of both plants and animals is extremely wrong and unethical. Genetic engineering and GMOs have been linked to various diseases in humans. In my opinion, all of the food we eat should be all nature. Putting all of these chemicals in our food so that farmers can make more money and produce more food has huge adverse affects on those of use who eat it. The percentage of obese children has increased immensely because of these chemicals. The health of the general population has dramatically declined because farmers are allowed to use harmful chemicals and farming practices. 

2.     One shocking part of the Food Inc. movie for me was when they said four companies control 80% of the meat industry. These companies are able to manipulate the supply and the manufacturing of almost all of the meat. Each brand is really just part of one larger company. They use this power to make sure they get more money in their pockets, and they also control the farmers themselves. This control is shown through size requirements of the animals all the way down to what they are fed. All of this is down so that the food companies can make more money. 

3. Another shocking part of the movie was when they were talking about how E. Coli is linked to feed cows corn. The movie tells us that cows were never supposed to corn, and because of it they are producing E. Coli bacteria in their organs. It then gets passed through to the other animals because of the terrible living conditions on the feeding grounds. The cows must standing in their own manure 24/7 and they end up covered in it by the time they get to the slaughter house. The slaughter houses also have very low sanitation requirements, and the manure end up passing the bacteria to the meat.  This lead to the biggest meat recall in history. It is very disturbing to see how low the standards for what we call "food" really are.