Final Food Assignment Including More Resources

Food has been and always will play a big role in our lives. We need it to survive and keep what we call "healthy". We have never taken time to actually realize where our food is coming from, whose hands it been on and how the animals we eat are killed. I feel like even if we were to know the history of our food, we as Americans will continue to eat it becuase its just "a way of life".

In the video, "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons, its supposed to be making a joke on how cows are mistreated and abused of consistently. They cannot fight for themselves, therefore we as humans take this as an advantage and do what we want, as long as we get our food. Making fun of the industrial food culture gives out a message to all the people to try to change their way of life, their way of living and especially their way of eating. We need to take some time to think twice before eating the food we tend to eat. In the lines, "they to grow, grow to die. Die to be at the hamburger fry Cows well done" shows a lot of what kind of people we are. We are all selfish people. Farmers feed the cows to get them real fat and plump so that when to cutting them up, we have lots of meat to eat. This is so wrong for them, and as we find out this information we continue to eat these poor animals.

As the song continues, the story changes. This time the song is saying on what if the cows take revenge and take over us by killing all humans and giving them the same treatment the cows got. Its a little redundant to see farm animals gathering together and forming a group to fight for themselves but then again this song makes a great point about abusing the rights that animals have. To treat animal in a hurtful way becuase they are "lower" than you is a very low thing to do. We shouldn't just think of cows as something we devour but more as living creatures that also have feelings and rights. This song is funny but at the same time serious because the message the writer is sending out is very strong.

I really do think we as Americans should think twice about how we live our lives and the food we are putting into our bodies. Just having an idea of where our food comes from shows that we care about what we are feeding our bodies. People who are over eating and not even realizing what their bodies are feeding on are selfish and stupid. I just think we should have some heart and think twice about our actions towards the animals we eat. For example. McDonalds food is filled with oil and ingredients that are very harmful to our bodies.

In the video "VROOM" you can see how harmful the trucker is, he is basically killing the plants and vegetables by spraying a whole bunch of pesticides and liquids on the. Industrial food industries are putting different chemicals in our food but we don't bother to take a look at what is happening around us.

In conclusion, I feel tha they way we look at food isnt the best way that will benefit the way we will our lives. We need to think before we make the actions we make. Even the thought of knowing where your food comes and what hands its been in is a first step to being more aware about the things around you.