Modern Meat Is Produced By Frontline
12/1/2010
Organizational Behavior
Extra Credit #2
The movie that I chose to write about is called Modern Meat and it is produced by frontline. The movie exposes the truth about the history of our meat and diseases. The movie explains how the united states meat industry was dramatically change in the early 19 50s to increase productivity as well as profit. This process would have continued if it wasn’t for the big outbreak that got the public’s attention. The outbreak that was an e coli outbreak occurred in 1993; this outbreak distributed infected meat through a fast food chain called Jack in the box. The reason this radicalized the industry is because before this food poisoning was considered to only cause stomach aches and minor symptoms …show more content…
The problem with the feeding lots is that the cows are forced to live in manure they sleep walk all over manure. Feed lots increase the ability of microorganism to be passed from cow to cow. In these feed lots it estimated that up to ¼ of cows have e coli bacteria in their stomach. Many cows have health issues and to combat this ranchers purchases at least half of antibiotics sold in the U.S to put into the cows food to help them fight viruses. The cows are eating these antibiotics and it is affecting us because we eat the cows, humans are becoming resistant to antibiotics and a large part of the blame is going in to the meat …show more content…
I feel the industry leaders have created a culture where they compete in prices by undercutting one another. This action puts the consumers at risk of getting food poisoning all because of profit. In the movie there was a lady named Patsy Macke that was a food inspector, she tried to speak out about what she saw at a meat packing plant and she was fired. I feel this type of action by the USDA exposes the fact that they are turning a blind eye to the health of the consumers they are supposed to be protecting. I understand that employees at the USDA are doing what they are told, but there is a social responsibility of telling the public what really is going on in the meat packing industry. This action of firing Patsy Macke shows what a bad leader can do in a company in discouraging other people from coming
Organizational Behavior
Extra Credit #2
The movie that I chose to write about is called Modern Meat and it is produced by frontline. The movie exposes the truth about the history of our meat and diseases. The movie explains how the united states meat industry was dramatically change in the early 19 50s to increase productivity as well as profit. This process would have continued if it wasn’t for the big outbreak that got the public’s attention. The outbreak that was an e coli outbreak occurred in 1993; this outbreak distributed infected meat through a fast food chain called Jack in the box. The reason this radicalized the industry is because before this food poisoning was considered to only cause stomach aches and minor symptoms …show more content…
The problem with the feeding lots is that the cows are forced to live in manure they sleep walk all over manure. Feed lots increase the ability of microorganism to be passed from cow to cow. In these feed lots it estimated that up to ¼ of cows have e coli bacteria in their stomach. Many cows have health issues and to combat this ranchers purchases at least half of antibiotics sold in the U.S to put into the cows food to help them fight viruses. The cows are eating these antibiotics and it is affecting us because we eat the cows, humans are becoming resistant to antibiotics and a large part of the blame is going in to the meat …show more content…
I feel the industry leaders have created a culture where they compete in prices by undercutting one another. This action puts the consumers at risk of getting food poisoning all because of profit. In the movie there was a lady named Patsy Macke that was a food inspector, she tried to speak out about what she saw at a meat packing plant and she was fired. I feel this type of action by the USDA exposes the fact that they are turning a blind eye to the health of the consumers they are supposed to be protecting. I understand that employees at the USDA are doing what they are told, but there is a social responsibility of telling the public what really is going on in the meat packing industry. This action of firing Patsy Macke shows what a bad leader can do in a company in discouraging other people from coming