Improving the environment starts with us

Noah 2022-04-20 09:02:00

Ken often said that chickens in the United States are bigger and fatter than those in China. It's expensive to eat beef in China, and it's super cheap to buy a ribeye steak in the United States.
I am often amazed at the abundance of American food when I wander the wal-mart late at night. So many chips, so much bread, so much meat. And the greens all look clean, fresh, and brightly colored. When I was intoxicated by the cheap supermarkets and abundance of capitalism, I had absolutely no idea where these dazzling arrays of goods came from. As I didn't know Coca-Cola had cornmeal ingredients in it.
Seeing those chickens so fat that they couldn't stand up, and watching so many chickens crowded into a farm, I contacted those fried chickens in McDonald's and people who were eating chicken with their mouths full of oil. So disgusting.
Watching those ground beef come out of the meat grinder like shit makes me really sad for us. Usually I like to buy these ground beef to make eggplant pot. Who would have thought that these pigs, cows, etc. were slaughtered, and those Mexican laborers kept digging their guts. . . . . .
We should change our way of life. Eat less meat, buy more organic food, and eat less of those snacks. We can correct this sick industry at its source.
As Chinese, I think we are lucky. At least our food industry has not developed to the extent of the United States. Although we eat 5 kilograms of pesticides a year, at least we still have the so-called meat market, at least our things are fresher.
Improving the environment should start with us.

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  • Joel Salatin: I'm always struck by how successful we have been at hitting the bull's-eye of the wrong target. I mean we have learned- for example, in cattle we have learned how to plant, fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology, and nobody sits back and asks, "But should we be feeding cows corn?" We've become a culture of technicians. We're all into the how of it and nobody's stepping back and saying "But why?"

  • Title card: In 1972, the FDA conducted approximately 50,000 food safety inspections. In 2006, the FDA conducted 9,164.