Ugh.

Well, this is my first non-scholastic post. So a week or two ago I had to watch Food Inc. It's a documentary about...food. Rather, what's in it, who controls it, etc. After viewing this documentary, I royally lost my appetite. I saw no reason to eat at Mcdonald's. Okay, maybe one; the fries. (Even though those aren't very healthy either. But hey, it isn't my fault they taste so good!) Apparently the majority of the meat at fast food establishments is not meat at all, but meat fillers. What the turkey neck is wrong with companies?? Yes, I understand that it's cheaper, but how can they possibly live with themselves knowing that the food their producing isn't food at all? It's...it's...un-food, for a lack of a better existing word.

What happens to the animals that we think we're eating? Well, Johnny, the answer to this question is they are abused. Now, we all know that the animals have to die, but not many of us think about how the animal dies. Or what it goes through before death. That leg that you're about to eat most likely belonged to a chicken that was given steroids. A chicken whose developement was cruely sped up and was unable to keep up with it. See, that chicken's internal organs and limbs were growing entirely too fast. That chicken got so beefed up that its legs couldn't handle the weight. It could only make it 2 or 3 steps at a time. Or perhaps it couldn't take one step at all. With all of the overcrowding in the coop, that chicken could have just dropped dead from the heat. Or maybe 2 or 3 chickens on top of it that couldn't move either. If neither of these were the cause of death, that chicken was cancelled out the traditional way; the neck was rung. Either way, it's a horrible fate to suffer, in my opinion. I know they've got to die somehow, but why so brutally?I just can not seem to process this in my mind. Maybe I'm one of the last people to learn this stuff but I just want to know if any one else is as outraged as I.