Citation

 "Meatpacking ranks among the most dangerous jobs in the country. For all this, an employee can make perhaps $7 or $8 an hour. But the work requires neither education nor skill, nor much command of English--just a willingness to work hard. Not surprisingly, there are many native-born Americans who don't want jobs like that. There are, however, a lot of immigrants who do" (Gurwitt, Rob, and Wilson Quarterly).


"Keepin The Heart In The Heartland." http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=949d7408-0f6b-46cf-9c65-35202a4ded2b%40sessionmgr113&vid=17&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=980948.  Rob Gurwitt, Copyright 1998. 29 Nov. 2011

Blog 5

To the CAFO system animal life to them means nothing besides something they can profit off of. Human life is two groups for them, the workers who can be ignored and the consumers which purchase their product. I would assume life is organized by value in dollars. Human workers get paid minimally, chickens are worth x while turkeys are worth x and pigz are worth z. There is no significance in life to the corporations that are the CAFOs, that is as long as it isn't their own. They value themselves and money. Consequences in health for the animals is a high rate of becoming sick and put through numerous hardships. Animals in all CAFOs have to sit in their own feces and besides having to sit in it their feces can cause massive environmental problems. In 2002 a deadzone within the Golf of Mexico was created by nutrients from animal waste and at its peak it stretched 8,500 square miles. All these animals in close quarters is a cesspool for disease. In the U.S. 29 million pounds of antibiotics are put into animal feed each year to speed up growth and fight disease. This contributes to the growth of resistant bacteria that can't be treated with antibiotics due to widespread use in animals. Factory farming will literally kill the animals before they get to slaughter if they are not given antibiotics. The method in which they are raised literally kills them. Neighbors of Factory farms have in been recorded to die from the immense amount of air pollution from a hog farm. Hog waste emits hydrogen sulfide, this gas can create flu-like symptoms and can cause brain damage. Hydrogen sulfide released from hog waste has be recorded to kill 19 people. If it kills humans who live near the factory farms what about the animals that live in the factory farms??