In this blogger's Knol entitled "Ten Principals of Healthy Eating" I emphasize that you should know your food's origin and buy local when possible. There are reasons for this, as exemplified by a recent HBO documentary.
The new HBO documentary "Death on a Factory Farm" takes a harrowing look at animal cruelty in an Ohio factory hog farm.
Each year, ten billion animals are raised for consumption in the U.S., mostly on sprawling, industrialized farms, where virtually no federal laws mandate how the animals are treated - though guidelines exist - and state laws are ineffective. As a result, animals are frequently subjected to what many consider cruel treatment and inhumane conditions in the interest of economic efficiency. Death on a Factory Farm chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio. This shocking documentary is produced by Tom Simon (a seven-time Emmy® winner) and Sarah Teale, producer of the 2006 HBO special "Dealing Dogs," which received two Emmy® nominations, including Best Documentary.
This is not pretty to be sure, but it is a wakeup call to pay attention to what you buy to eat, and what you buy your family to eat. You wouldn't drink dirty water out of a ditch, so why would you buy meat from animals horribly abused? You wouldn't and I would not either. Knowledge is everything.
Richard Wottrich
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