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Chapter Two: The Fat of the Land

A cattle feed lot maximizse economies of scale -- and the misery of the animals
"These, then, are the
sources of our food; vast expanses of dead and toxic dirt, enormous
warehouses
of sick and suffering animals. From the fields come great
mechanized rivers of grain, most of it for feeding to
the sick
animals, the rest to be fashioned by food engineers into Twinkies and
Cheesies and Sugar Pops. From
the slaughter houses come bins and
slabs of flaccid meat injected with various embalming fluids devised
by
food engineers to hold it together and make it look natural and
fresh until its expiration date. This is how we
get our food, just in
time, from a vast fleet of cargo jets and 18-wheelers roaring through
the night, drawing
on a fuel lifeline that runs all the way to Arabia
and is starting to suck air. This is how we have become a nation
of
obese, malnourished people about to be disconnected from their
feeding tube."
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