Arguments (Don’t Presume to Know a Pig’s Mind)

During the Grammys Awards an ad for Chipotle Mexican Grill made its debut, in which a family of farmers raises their cows and pigs naturally and the animal seem to live happy.  Then, industries appear in the ad and they move the animals to indoors into large building, where the animals have no freedom and are all bunched up. After, the ad shows the farmer thinking about his animals and the things that industries do to the animals by giving them antibiotics and pumped the animals up. The pigs and cows are being oppressed and after they are big and fat they are processed into cubes of meat.

            The production methods are not supposed to cause pain to animals and we know that not only because they live outdoors, they are happy. However, this ad had a big impact, starting with McDonalds that started a campaign in which they ask suppliers to stop making suffer the animals used for meat. They said that they should look for other ways in which animal don’t suffer as much, as they do in gestation crates.

            The result of this change will be to push off the market all the small farmers raising hogs, because they are not going to be able to make changes in how the raise their animals. This meaning that the price of bacon will increase and the only suppliers will be rich industries.

            “Farmers are business people and respond to market signals” (B.Hurst). These are contradictory because while the worldwide hunger is high they keep arguing about how food is produced. Farmers will have to decide if they are going to keep producing meat the easy way or they are going to care about the nostalgia produced by how they treat animals....

             I chose this argument because is arguable and you are able to get a position. In this article especially you are able to against or for the use of medication to make animal bigger in shorter time periods. Also I decided to write about this because there is much info to write about this topic. You are able to talk about the protection of animals, Hunger worldwide, Use of medication in animals etc...