Blog 6

I think one of the most feasible ways of changing industrial meat production like CAFOs and aligning them with green principles would be by raising the awareness of the general public on exactly how industrial meat producers operate. Perhaps if more people could see just how inhumane and unnatural today's meat industry is, they might care less about having an inexpensive product and more about the well being of the animals, the environment, and themselves. If there was less demand for cheap meat products then there would not be as much incentive for CAFOs to take whatever shortcuts they had to in order to keep the prices low and still make a profit. Hearing Dr. Jones speak about Doko Farms and comparing the lives of the animals on his farm with the lives of the animals in Food Inc. opened my eyes even more to the tragic state of our food industry. I think that if the rest of the country had the same access to this type of information and could understand how bad CAFOs are, not just for the animals but those consuming them, a lot of people would be in support of greener values which could force the food industry to change its practices. Also, I think the greenest types of farms are those who, like Doko Farms, rely on human labor rather than just that of machines.