Posted by Snow in 
Throwing down my burrito this morning, I had finally had it. The industrial oil was clearly tastable, and the chicken tasted like someone had assorted mushed paper mache with chicken flavoring in a kiln. Awful. I nearly threw it up.
I picked up a paper that discussed animal consumption ethics. Factory farming is a risky manufacturing process, yet we gobble prepared and nonlocal meats laced with perservatives every day. Wanna bet the runoff from those plants is pretty sour? Where does it go?
I am thinking of the chemical engineers who had eggs all over their faces when a woman who had sued their company for polluting her land found an “unknown” font of offpouring waste that inspectors just somehow missed. The burden is still on the tax payer to bring these firms to justice, who have doubtless secured the services of top notch consulting firms to keep their noses clean.
I sure hope none of the fish from those streams gets in my tuna. The toxic outpour was supposedly cleaned up, but how can a company be trusted wth two strikes already? I wonder sometimes if it will take the birth of a two headed baby linked directly to manufacturing toxins to make something happen.
There does not seem to be a legal deterrent strong enough to make such companies operate green. This begs the question, why are they allowed to stay in business? Should environmental standards be tightened? Grain fed beef and pork has a hidden price tag, an ugly one of animal cruelty. But even green and sustainable animal protein is a question mark.
Ethical eating should avoid toxic pesticides, hormones, and mass penned livestock swallowing food until judgement day. One look at any animal farming pen and you will feel queasy ordering beef or pork for days. Feedlot pneumonia from the animal standing in their own feces and urine makes the animals sick. Want fries with that?
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