Do you know where your meat comes from?

 Now days product marketing has become so detached from the product, and not only that but from the truth about the product. Many companies advertise their product to be 'natural' or 'farm fresh', when in reality it is far from that. They also add images to their logo or advertisement to suggest certain things that you can see in the pictures below, and that give the viewer the sense that their products are from a family farm or that the cattle spent its previous years, before it arrived on your dinner plate, grazing beautiful pastures. This however, is not the case. 

                                                       

This is an example of false claims of 'all natural meat'. Tyson has sued in order to keep their rights of advertising 'all natural' their products, but the USDA warned the company that such labels are not truthful and said that "Tyson regularly treats its birds' feed with bacteria-killing ionophores. USDA inspectors discovered that in addition to using ionophores, Tyson was regularly injecting its chicken eggs with gentamicin, an antibiotic that has been used for more than 30 years in the United States to treat urinary tract and blood infections. The drug is also stockpiled by the federal government as a treatment for biological agents such as the plague."

This information was taken from the following article, to learn more go to: http://www.naturalnews.com/024756.html#ixzz2EW5lzpQB

This Jimmy Dean logo is an example of not exactly false advertising, but they do a great job of implying that their product comes from a conventional family farm, by their addition of the small traditional red barn that we would all expect on a farm. 

 

This Hillshire Farm logo does a great job at the same thing with the red barn atop a green pasture.

Hebrew National is guilty of quite the same thing as well, with the addition of flowers and a nice green pasture for the cow to graze. 

So, this is ideally where we picture our beef coming from. From a nice country side farm where the cow is allowed to graze on endless fields. This, however, like I said, is not the case. Below are pictures of the common factory farm, which is where 99% of all animals that are slaughtered for food in America come from. 

These are not pretty pictures, and these are not healthy animals. Instead, these animals are sick and diseased, due to them sleeping, standing, and eating in their own waste. Even when packed full of antibiotics many still become ill, and because of the high amounts of antibiotics being put into these animals it is causing many antibiotic-resistant infections in humans as well. All of these animals are abused, and left for dead when they become ill. Also, when you hear the term 'free range', the last picture from above is often where the animals are actually coming from, because to be termed 'free range' the animal simply needs to be outdoors. This is the sad, heart-breaking reality of our factory farming industry, and for the sake of the animals, the planet, and us, it needs to END!