Food Marketing

[MikeMusic]

Sorry for the naked URL don't know how to show Upworthy links like YouTube

http://www.upworthy.com/no-one-appla...hands-together

I shall pop into Upworthy again

[Puffin]

We have all become lazy, and the "convenience" lifestyle is King. I am guilty of ignoring what may be less than wholesome for convenience sake. We see a pack of Sausages/Chicken/Bacon, look at the price and if the price is right, it goes in the basket. Do I read what is in the product or consider how it may have been produced.....errr....No.

Not really good enough is it.

[Gordon Steadman]

What gets me is that actually, we all know this already. But because the chicken/duck/pig comes nicely plastic wrapped, we don't have to think about it.

We are lucky here. We grow our own food, veg, fruit, ducks and chickens. We get our pork and lamb from friends who run a ferme auberge and all the animals are free range and spoilt rotten - 'til its time to go.

We have to think about the reality though, if we want to eat chicken, we have to kill it ourselves. I hate doing it but its the price I have to pay if I want to eat it.

However, we are not immune from the dark side as it takes very special effort to avoid factory farming altogether. Plus, for most it would just be too expensive.

Too many people, property too expensive and food too cheap. If property was kept to reasonable values, we could afford to pay more for food produced more humanely.

It ain't gonna happen.

[MikeMusic]

I had no idea of the scale of factory farming until a few years ago, the marketing keeps your focus on the things the want to make you keep buying animal products.
The antibiotics used in animals - as standard could be the driver for making them useless for humans.

It is a complete industry worth billions so animals suffering is not important if you don't have to think about it and for many years I didn't

The phrase that stuck with me
"the power of wilful ignorance"