HW #7c

Chapter 11
In this chapter I tell my readers about the animals on the farm. I explain how they all work together and help each other, how everything on the farm is interconnected. A good example of this would be how the animals eat the grass, which is for them but then when they produce their manure on the grass, it helps the grass. The manure fertilizes the grass.

Chapter 12

In this chapter the main thing that I want my readers to understand is the process the animals, in this case the chickens, go through in the slaughter house I also focus on clarifying that not all slaughter houses are all that dirty, some are, by slaughter house standards, clean. By this I mean that the animals have their waste disposed of naturally, into the grass and they live life freely. Many readers will likely be interested in knowing that the killing of the animals is inevitable, however it does not always have to be cruel towards the animals. This is evident in the full lives that the animals on grass farms live as opposed to those fueled primarily by the corn.

Chapter 13

The primary objective in this chapter was to make it clear that local markets or grass farms value quantity over quality. This does not apply to farms or slaughter houses that pay little or no attention to how the animals are actually treated and the lives they live. On grass farms the animals live full lives. This connects to the big picture because although consumers like to spend the least amount of money, this is their downfall. It will intrigue people to know that modern day Americans spend below ten percent of their income on their food as opposed to as recently as the 1950s where up around twenty percent was spent on food. Clearly, people just do not care as much about what they are eating.

Chapter 14

In this chapter I focus on my experience with chicken post being the person to do the dirty work. After killing the chicken, then plucking and even gutting them myself, I wondered if I could handle the eating. I also wondered if the way the chickens were raised, naturally with grass, would actually affect their taste when eating them. After preparing a meal and eating, my family, friends, and I all agreed that the food was delicious. Many would be very interested in finding the correlation between the happiness of the chicken during its life to its taste after.