What really struck me as strange was how oblivious or null minded Mr. and Mrs. Fox were. I mean I'm probably wrong when in saying this because they probably know exactly what they are doing. My guess is that they work for a company of some sort that is a big chicken producer and they are acting like everything is okay between the chickens. Perhaps the real reason that chickens can be treated this way is because of the laws about having chickens state nothing about how much space each chicken needs. It just says that they should be able to roam around an enclosed area. Nevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. Fox both act as if they know nothing of what is going on that is wrong, and they do know that what they are doing isn't the best for the chickens. I think there could be some rules set that can help the chickens a little bit but who knows what that will do to food production for us. The U.S. has no laws that help farm animals while they are on farms(factory farms). This makes it so that the factory farmers can basically do whatever they want with the way they raise their animals. If I was to do a review on this film, I would talk about how the director included a lot about pesticides and kept hitting on it throughout the whole movie. With the pesticides, he talked about how the industrial food that the world is living on right now is not sustainable. Something that i thought was missing from this movie was the other side of the argument. There was barely any if any at all about what the opposing side of this issue thought. Honestly there isn't much of anything that I relate to in this film. I have never lived on a farm, I have never looked into the production of meats or anything, and I haven't really ever taken into consideration the effects of organic or industrial.
Something that I dug into a little deeper was the laws that are set in place by the government in order to protect industrial farm animals. The percentage of farm animals that have protection under federal laws is 5%. This shows that there is not much at all that is out there to protect them. The state laws are the only thing that can protect them if the federal laws are this lenient. So as you can tell, farm animals don't have too much protection under at all under the federal laws and some farm animals don't have anything protecting them. One that doesn't have any protection is the chicken. That's a pretty wild stat if you think about it.
https://www.aspca.org/fight-cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty/legal-protections-farm-animals
I agree with your idea about the chickens. The chickens should be able to roam in an open space instead of being confined. Multiple diseases could be roaming around. Also, it is very sad that only 5% of farm animals are protected under federal laws.
ReplyDeleteI too looked into the laws that are set up by the government and I don't know about you but i had a more difficult time than i thought trying to find a clear consistent answer. A lot of it was redirecting to different sites or looking up terms trying to make sense of what I just read. I do find it interesting that you were able to find out that only 5% of animals are protected. You would think the government would want the most protection on the animals we are using to nurture our body but apparently its just the opposite and that's extremely alarming.
ReplyDeleteMr. and Mrs. Fox struck me as an odd couple as well. I think the camera man did a good job at catching them when they were off guard and although they were speaking out saying that chickens are living better than they have 50 years ago their demeanor and awkward silence and stares off camera at the distance seemed to suggest that they knew what they were doing was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI have to contradict about Mr. and Mrs. Fox with you. I have been inside of chicken farms before and they are not nearly as grapic as which the film portrays. Alot of the animal rights organizations are actually filming the inside jobs where they hire people to purposely treat the animals in a poor condition.
ReplyDeleteIt made me very sad reading the research you did. I cannot believe there are only 5% animals protected under federal laws. There has to be some way to change this, the video Fresh didn't go very far into this but I would definitely like to do more research to find out more and how to take action.
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