Huffington Post Article - Meet Your Meat: Why We All Should Care Where Our Burger Comes From

By Sam Schabacker
August 26, 2010

"I grew up next to a factory farm near Longmont [Colorado]. It was an industrialized turkey farm, covering several acres and comprised of metallic silos full of crowded birds. The family of my best friend in elementary school operated it and lived next to it. We used to play baseball in his front yard, dodging manure and mud that would fly off the wheels of the trucks that picked up the birds, and we rounded the bases as the smell of manure wafted about. My friend's dad worked hard to make a modest living on that turkey farm for his family. Until one day the company shut down this factory farm--moving its operations and taking its jobs with it. The county eventually bought the derelict facility in order to decommission it. This childhood story is a case study of our current food system: We are consuming food produced, packaged, distributed, advertised, and controlled by a handful of large corporations as never before. As the story above illustrates, it is a food system that doesn't work except for the few who are reaping massive profits off of it, while it is bad for our health, our environment, and our wallets..."

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