Lessons From the Egg Recall: Cheap Food Makes You Sick – Huffington Post Article
I moved to cage free and preferably free range eggs a while back. I’ve given up mayonnaise because the eggs in it come from such places. While the eggs are pasteurized it would be an economic vote for such places as the Iowa factory farms producing the tainted eggs to buy such a product.
And eggs are not the only cheap food that has a high cost. Just about all the meat (chicken, turkey, beef, and pork) in the supermarkets of this country comes from industrialized farms. It has been well documented why these are not good places, and definitely not good places to get the food that nourishes your body. As much as I love a good steak, I cannot in good conscience eat one anymore.
This is a capitalistic society. Dollars are economic votes. Is seemingly cheap more important than the environment, the workers in such places, the animals welfare, or if self interest motivates, your health? Is it really ethical to sustain such places with your continued participation by buying their product? Unfortunately, for so many of these corporate operations, the bottom line is what matters. It should be different, but they only change when they see their bottom lines headed the wrong way.
How are you voting?
This is an easy book to read. This is a hard book to read. It is easy in that it is well written, not overly dense, and well researched. It is hard in that if you have not thought about this issue or have and attempted to compartmentalize it away, some of scenes and practices depicted will not sit easy.