Dehumanize The Fast Food Industry

The fast food industry is affecting our country and we can have things done about it. In 2006, Chew On This was written by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson to give the reader a piece of reality about what happens to food and where it comes from before being served. They wrote the book so that readers could have a better understanding of where processed foods come from and educate them about different methods of manipulation used by the fast food industry. What the fast food industry is doing that the United States Department of Health and Human Services should know about is violating not just animal but human rights and creating serious health concerns for humans. Factory farm industries have grown in popularity, are seen more and more,
In the unsafe conditions factory farm and meat packing workers are in, accidents are not unheard of. These companies don't face the consequences they are expected to receive because of all its profits. “The maximum fine that OSHA can impose on a company for the death of a worker is $70,000… Tyson, now the world's largest meatpacking company, takes in almost 400,000 times that amount every year (roughly $27 billion)” (Schlosser & Wilson, 190). The fast food industry hires a lot of undocumented immigrants in order to be able to treat them as objects they can easily replace anytime at little to no cost. Injuries and deaths that take place in their working environment have no real negative effect on the company. Workers are aware, but have no other choice than to either live with it or find another way to support those back home. Every day, these workers go to work with two concerns: being fired and possibly killed in an accident while at
Solutions to the problems I have outlined in my essay are voting factory farming out of certain areas, stopping the consumption of animal products, and proposing laws that would be a little more strict on the fast food industry. An individual can stop him or herself from purchasing animal products in order to atleast try and not be part of the reason for why so many animals get slaughtered and are raised in factory farms. As a community, residents can come together and vote against industrial farming in their counties to stop the number of factory farms from increasing and preventing airborne sickness from getting to them. The government can also be part of the solution to these problems that take place because of industrial farming by creating laws that prevent the cruel treatment of slaughter animals while being raised. Creating laws that improve the sanitation in the environment animals are forced to live in in order to prevent sickness would also be part of the