So Let’s Talk About Raising Animals for Food:

• Alan Sytsama is a Food Editor for the New York Magazine who wrote a short summary called “So Let’s Talk About Raising Animals for Food”. He talks about animals being seen as only a source of food and how the Humane Society had found evidence that could lead to Smithfield being sued.
• A link to the website of Raising Animals for Food.

Each participant has THEIR own reasoning for animals being raised as food and they each have there own opinions. Alan Sytsama wrote about animals as a source of food and how Smithfield production is being boycotted by Humane Society who found evidence of their crimes.

Humane Society:

• A video and report that it says are the results of an undercover investigation into a Virginia breeding facility operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.

Humane Society has left me with the impression of them trying to help animals not go extinct that they had investigated Smithfield facility to find crimes that they committed. The evidence that they describe to me tells us that they have found crimes that a facility that suppose to help animals is not to be trusted.

Evidence found on Smithfield:

• Piglets tossed into dumpsters
• Employees jabbing at a lame sow to get her to move
• Pigs developing open pressure sores as a result of being “crammed” into gestation crates
• Tiny holding pens restrict the pregnant pigs’ movement to almost nothing.

Smithfield:

• The slogan of the company is “Good Food. Responsibly,”
• On there website it says, “Industry-Leading Animal Welfare Management Program.”
• The company slogan about “Good Food” and “Animal Welfare Program” which is just a place to breed animals so that they won’t run out of food.

Smithfield slogan of “Good Food. Responsibly” make me think that theirs food is the best in town and the animals that they use are being cared for, but the evidence that was told says our wise. Which makes me feel that the so called “Animal Welfare Program” is just a place for people to sell theirs animals for slaughter.

Mark Bittman:

• Linked a video on his site that boycotts all Smithfield products
• Bon Appetit = Vegan Diet
• People avoiding factory-raise meat
• He linked a video about Bon Appetit being a “vegan until six diets” and Smithfield being boycotted that people avoid factory meat.

Mark Bittman had gone on a Vegan Diet and has avoided all factory raise meat due to Smithfield’s crimes. He added a video about being vegan and how he was so disgusted of Smithfield’s food that he recommend people not to buy there products.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt:

• Trip to La Belle Farms in Hudson Valley
• Gave his impression of foie production to others of it not being bad.
• Lopez-Alt digs deeper into the science behind foie production isn’t horrible.
• It being physiology a big part for migration.
• La Belle Farms is a place in Hudson Valley where foie gras production is operated Lopez-Alt went there himself and came with the same impression as everyone else, that isn’t a horrible place.

While Lopez-Alt who we to La Belle Farms gave his impression foie’s production not really being all that bad or horrible. Which I find to impossible due to what we just learned and it only leaving a physiology impact on the animals.

They don’t really give me any information that I see to be trustworthily or important at all. The pigs tossed in dumpsters make it seem their just left over pieces that aren’t used but the sores they have from being “crammed” leaves behind bugs, bacteria, and cause people to get sick just from eating the pigs with sores.