Angus cattle

Shortly after I graduated High School I realized my dream of working with cattle and following in my father’s footsteps. What I didn’t realize is how much a dairy farmer needs to use written word to converse with others. I was eighteen years old and was talking to a loan officer to purchase my first few animals to start me career as a dairy farmer. He asks me, “What is your plan? How will you earn enough money to cover your loans and live comfortably? How will you convince me that you are a…

Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations and Their Risks Following Michael Pollan’s view in his book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he covers the realm of concentrated animal feedlot operations (COFAs) in his extensive spiel about the overarching concept of corn in our society. He discusses his purchased steer, number 534, as he accompanies its journey through the system. In the beginning 534 enjoyed his life on a green pasture with his mother for six months, until he became strong and bulky enough to…

focus is to warn her readers on not only the harm dairy milk does to the human body, but also the maltreatment of the producing cows. The emphasis on the health concerns pertaining to ingredients found in dairy milk and the mistreatment of the farm cattle is organized into a distressing warning. It seems that the audiences that Ms. Martins is targeting are health conscious consumers and animal right activists that might get just as shocked by the topic. At first, attention is attained with the…

Corrida de toros y encierro is Spanish for fighting of the bull. Bullfighting is losing its popularity but it is still very relevant in these areas Spain, Portugal, southern parts of France, and some Latin American countries (donquijote.org). Bullfighting is the Spanish sport where a man fights a bull in a stadium with thousands of people watching. The bull fighters also known as Perkins,2 Matadors and Toreros use red capes to antagonize the Bulls. The sport of bullfighting is enjoyed by many…

In July, 2001, a two year old boy named Kevin Kowalcyk died in Colorado after eating a hamburger contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 from the popular fast food chain, Jack In The Box. Kevin died 12 days after being stuck with the illness, but it took the FDA 16 days after Kevin was diagnosed with E.coli to recall the meat. Just think of how many people ate that contaminated meat within those 16 days. Kevin’s mother, Barbara Kowalcyk has been working for over six years to pass a law that would give…

In this section, Schlosser takes perusers into the slaughterhouse. He discovers somebody with access to the plant who is agitated with the working conditions to give him a visit. Schlosser sees the whole horrifying procedure of steers butcher from the staggering of cows to the cutting. Critically, he watches the specialists' conditions inside. Schlosser says meatpacking is most hazardous occupation in America. A standout amongst the most perilous parts of the occupation are the blades…

So back in spring 2012 , it was bright and sunny day , My cousins and I were bored and we needed something fun. So Kynser and Ross were walking to their camper and they got out water balloon and bopper balloons , they started to fill them up with water. Jaylen and I were going to walk to our grandpa and grandma’s camper to ask for the gator keys , but they were laying out on the table in front of the camper so we grab them. Afterwards we got into the gator and started it and went off with it. We…

on the animal’s skin, while the order Anoplora consists of lice that like to actually suck the animal’s blood. Differentiation between the two different orders of lice matters because treatment is chosen based upon what kind of order of lice the cattle/other animals have. Another name for lice eggs is nits (CAPC,…

Rodeo We had been in Weatherford, Texas for almost 8 months. Coming from rural California we were no strangers to rodeo. Just a few weeks back the wife and I had attended the Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo with our 5 year-old son, Dylan. I asked Dylan, “so what do you think?” and Dylan said, “I can do that, I want to be a bull rider.” I thought to myself, wow! Is my boy being serious? Watching the rest of the rodeo was such a joy seeing my son light up and talk about all the cowboys. Once we…

Sinclair, U. (2002). The jungle (C.V. Eby, Ed., Norton critical ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1906) This is a review on select meat packing issues raised in The Jungle regarding organized crime, government action/inaction, food and worker safety, and reform in the early 1900s. Packingtown is “a section of southwest Chicago,” comprised of “stockyards, slaughter-houses, factories, and cramped and filthy living quarters” (Sinclair, 1906/2002, p. vii). The Jungle…