Blog #8 Pollan philosophies

Throughout the novel Pollan tells us about what steps our food goes through before it goes onto our plates. HE discusses many animals and the conditions they live in and how they are treated. He also exlains the process in which they are killed. Pollan's chapter 12 "Slaughter" was a tough one to read, he explains in quite some detail how our chickens get killed. "For all the considerable beauty I'd witnessed following a food chainin which the sun fed the grass, the grass, the cattle, the cattle the chicken, and the chickens us, there was one unavoidable link in that chain few would consider beautiful: the open-air processing shed out behind the Salatin's house where 6 times a month in the course of a long morning, several hundred chicken's are killed, scalded,plucked, and eviscerated." (Pollan,226) The process the chicken's go through to get to our plates for us to eat I think is horrible and disgusting. This completely changed my perspective on eating meat. My favorite type of meat was chicken, not anymore. After reading this entire book alot of my perspectives on meat has changed. I'm not as big of a meat eater as I was because now I know what actualy happens to these animals before slaughter and during slaughter.