Blog 5: The CAFO system

In this course, we have learned that the CAFOs systematically control animal life and also human life by exploiting their workers and setting the price for the consumers. It is an unorganized system because it is selfish of the animals' welfare, the workers and the consumer for gain of profit. It organizes only the way the money goes and that is in the direction of the CAFO owners. As a nation of consumers, we need to take this more seriously because the way they are controlling our organization of life matters. It is affecting the system of life's natural order. The people behind the CAFOs  are controlling they way animals are being raised, confining them to live in tight spaces all their life with no relationship to their kind, feeding them what they're not supposed to eat, and injecting them with hormones and antibiotics so they grow faster in a small amount of time. This isn't natural! The workers' attitude and behavior changes in these factory farms because they are surrounded by blood, bacteria and in heavy equipment that still puts them in dangerous situations with the same routine work. Their jobs are one of the lowest paying jobs yet put their physical well being and health at risk every day they come in. Consumers take risks with their health every time they have a meal that has come from a CAFO. CAFOs are unsanitary environments to the animals and so is the food they're being fed. If not cooked properly, we can intake deadly diseases like E.coli that come from the animals. The overproduction of all the CAFOs have brought upon other issues like the endangering of our ecosystem. Large manure waste constantly overflows from poultry farms to hog farms and reaches our waters that then become dead zones for miles! The life in these rivers are being harmed because of the greed of these same CAFO owners that are hit with petty fines every time this happens. Sooner or later, this system will crash and it will effect everyone worse than it is now unless we make changes.