Supermarket meat that people consume on a daily basis looks very delicious but has a very different reality. The rosy picture that we get from the packaging and the advertising is indeed a sham and a shame because the food that is accessible to us through the food systems of the 'Food Industrial Complex' is in fact, in deep antagonism to our needs, ethics, health and our environment.

Meat that is accessible in the supermarkets or restaurants should be avoided at all cost, rather the meat that we must consume should be purchased from local farmers whose priority is to provide meat that is healthy rather than cheap so as to bypass factory farmed meat.

There are a few reasons why meat from large factory line food industries must be avoided. First, large corporations destroy the way of life for the rural farming communities, by running small family farming businesses into the ground because they can afford to sell meat at a lower price. Second, the meat that they do provide is associated with many health problems.

Third, the industrial farming method is energy intensive and contributes in a large way to the contamination and pollution of our environment in ways that organic and natural farming does not. Fourth, employees suffer health risks because of the factory system and the fumes, usually are underpaid and do not have benefits. Fifth, the animals themselves are treated in very unethical ways.

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