... also support an outdated, unsustainable system of industrial agriculture, which has damaging impacts on soil, air, water, human health, and rural economies. Smart, science-based food and farm policies can increase every American's access to fresh fruits and vegetables, saving thousands of lives and billions of healthcare dollars in the process. By encouraging farmers to grow a diverse ... required 52 different stages of transportation and processing, involving raw materials from at least half a dozen different countries (Pollan). Not only are the distances that food travels from farm to...

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... clinical antibiotics have been used. A company called Novartis developed a marker gene that contained an ampicillin resistance, and a potato developed by Avebe contained a gene for amikican resistance. These were intended for animal feed where the genes were under the control of a bacterial promoter. According to Karen Hopkin of the Scientific American concerns arose that the antibiotic resistance gene might be transferred to ... the bacteria in the animal's gut (including human pathogens), that might then acquire resistance to clinically useful antibiotics. The Advisory Committee on Nov...

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... agony, especially the chickens. One farmer, Carole Morrison a chicken farmer under contract with Perdue, offered a rare look at what an industrial chicken farm looks like (Polis). This gives the audience an inside view that many businesses and large corporations actually refused to give Kenner and his team. She ... grow and in turn the chickens cannot even bare their own weight causing them to either die and become immobile. More examples of explicit animal scenes include the beheading of chickens, the slaughter of pigs and the harsh treatment of cows. A very important part of Kenners a...

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... they have been taken for a ride by these big agricultural companies since they have had to pay more money for the new herbicide and pest-resistant seeds (Hsu, K). "The farm has moved from being the centerpiece of agriculture to become but one part of an integrated multilevel industrial process including production, storage, processing, distribution, marketing, and retaining" (Knox and ... Marston 342). Agriculture has become more than planting and harvesting. It is now a food assembly line where each scale, from the private farm, to the commercial business, to the global market, is part...

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... minimal tiling. In order to see the benefits of using GMOs, it is important to understand what they are and where they come from. Agricultural products such as crop plants, farm animals, and soil bacteria have been genetically engineered to breed only those with specific traits that are better than others. These are examples of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Through selective ... breeding, crops are able to be bred to grow in a low-till plot, and with the ongoing demand for meat, GMOs can help increase production in farm animals. The truth is, most of the food we have been consu...

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... , is well aware of this too and allows it! Food labels for the meals available at these restaurants are allowed to include "all natural" as well as "farm fresh"; however, the standards the FDA goes by in order to allow these words are low, promoting a poor regulation of food safety. The only thing that producers include alongside ... not what Americans want to be eating; however, they are oblivious to what is entering their bodies. These carcinogens also cause rapid aging, kidney failure, and weak bones (Sewall). Obviously, animal slaughter unfortunately takes place in order to produce t...

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... also been implemented which most consumers fail to recognize. All together, increased fast food popularity has led to the adoption of business practices involving the careless treatment of modern day farm animals. First of all, fast food is prepared from unhealthy meat. Most animals raised as food for fast food restaurants come from "factory farms." At each of these factory farms ... forth by the Human Slaughter Act. It quickly becomes apparent that farms across the country collectively choose to ignore the guidelines because nothing exists to enforce their adherence. Consequently, each...

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... function more efficiently by focusing on fewer tasks. As food production and processing became more specialized, work became simpler and more routine. Mechanization, which is the replacement of human and animal labor with machinery that could aid in farmers' tasks, was then conceived. Production became more dependent on resources manufactured elsewhere, such as agricultural chemicals, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides. ... in soil and pesticides are used to control crop damage from certain insects and pests. The use of agricultural chemicals increased more than 500% from 1948 to 200...

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... plays a role in social control because the Zinacanteco people have a fear of ancestral gods keeping them in line. Therefore they treat their kin well, perform social services, pay taxes, wash, farm, etc. They believe that Shamans recover lost souls, cure illness, and sometimes curse. They also believe in the Pantheon of gods, as a result of which their ancestor-spirits are given ... because they feel they have knowledge of social rules and cultural beliefs. As a result, they can punish them by causing them to lose their inner souls or by letting their animal spirit out of its spiritual ...

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... in 120 plus countries. The rise of powerful multinationals that shift capital across borders with few qualms, that feels no allegiance to any nation, no loyalty to any group of farm workers or consumers has given way over locally owned and operated businesses that know and respect the land and its people. The fast food industry creates a threat for individual cultures ... it is important to preserve and continue a tradition, rather then replace it with a McDonald's restaurant. Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials...

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