I was reading in my book Fast Food Nation when I came across the name Horace Greeley. I'm sitting in my room thinking I know that name. He's a newspaper guy, but how do I know him? Than I see the quote "Go West, Young Man." Than it hits me, Newsies! I know that guy from Newsies. I learned something from a movie...woah there!
This book is not about Newspaper men or Newsies (as much as I wish it was), it's about the food Americans eat and how un-healthy we are. This past chapter has been about meat, I have to say that I really have come to despise people. People treat cows horribly, they just destroy them. I can't even believe that people would be that mean. Cows have feelings too and they are just like people. They have families and they have friends, cows are cute and we shouldn't kill them by the thousands just so we can get fat on hamburgers. People say that they do it for money, but the ranchers don't make much money at all. "Ranchers currently face a host of economic problems: rising land prices, stagnant beef prices, oversupplies of cattle, increased shipments of live cattle from Canada and Mexico, development oressures, inheritance taxes, health scares about beef." (136). I think that people shouldn't kill animals just because they want to eat beef, it's not even healthy when it's in a hamburger! If people are going to kill cows than they can kill them humanely. From reading this book I think that people should not be aloud to kill animals just so that they can eat a hamburger at McDonalds. That's crazy! People should like cows more and care about them more. Fast Food companies don't pay anyone well and they are causing damage to the United States.
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