Remember back when
you were in high school and had to get a job for gas money or some pocket cash
to let you do what you want? While many of my friends used to mow lawns or work
at convenient stores, I used to spend my summers working at a butcher shop.
Growing up in a very rural community where cattle where raised in large
pastures eating natural grass and local grown corn, hay, and silage. The
livestock lived satisfying lives and they satisfied local customers taste buds
equally as much.
I was eating a big mac during my lunch break, and as good as it tasted the color of it just wasn’t appealing and I couldn’t help but wonder where this burger came from. Turns out Americans alone consume one billion pounds of beef at McDonald's each year, five and a half million head of cattle. (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-facts-mcdonalds-2010-12?op=1) How and where are these cattle grown? Selling 75 burgers every second, means you need a lot of beef and for it to grow quickly. This takes place at factory farms which are large confinements containing massive amounts of livestock. Example:
Animals in factory farms are treated as machines, their welfare is disregarded in the name of profit. On standard commercial egg farms, hens are kept in such small cages that they cannot even lift one wing. Factory farmed animals often have their tails, horns and genitals chopped off with no anesthesia. These animals are kept intensively and painfully confined, and are given many hormones for rapid growth. At the end of their miserable lives, they are all sent to violent commercial slaughterhouses where stunning procedures sometimes fail, and the animals are dismembered or skinned while still conscious.
For your own health
concerns and for the sake of these animals please try to stay away from these
large fast food conglomerates and support your local farmers.
