Glenn

1. One very food chain, with an animal icon, is Chick-fil-a. Chicken being the main food from this restaurant, a talking chicken would be an obvious icon. This animal is not animated, but yet a person being forced to stand in a suit all day, in event establishment they own. I feel this is a great way for the company to sell food, but very unfortunate for the person inside the suit. Based off of all the commercials and what I’ve personally heard this is a very honest company. The chicken suit is awesome and a great thing to take a picture with. This is a very good way of advertising the company and probably boosts sales. Chick-fil-a being my favorite fast food restaurant solely based on the food, I would say this company is very true to their word and is good to their animals. Whether or not the chicken suit made my opinion this way, I truly love Chick-fil-a.

2. I personally have very little connection with farm animals, being raised in a suburban community. I love horses and pigs, but never grew around any animals more than a cat and dog. I’ve had a long love for farm animals my entire life and wished I grew up on a farm.  MY friend Maryann was very rich and owns a few horses, and goats, which I enjoyed playing with as I grew up. Other than this aspect I have been deprived of farm animals most my life. On my knowledge of farm culture I know for the most part family owned farms take very good care of their animals. On the other hand I saw a cow being milked once and realized how cruel and badly they treat these animals. Most are locked in little cages their entire life and their only purpose is to be eaten, which is horrible.

Questions for discussion

1.  As Glenn discusses there are two main and codependent corporate discursive strategies for the “farm factory discourse.” These include the use a “double speak” these describe particular processes internal to the industry. These could include lies saying how nice they treat animals and how they live. The second is the creation of “speaking” animals in advertisements to see products of those industrial processes, like a talking cow saying how happy she is. NO, the discourse is absolutely not ethical because I believed these lies. Every time I saw Happy Cow commercials I really believed these cows were raised on a farm and were treated well. Lies—after reading this article I now know none of this is true and these animals are treated terribly. It hides from the public what is actually going on in these companies and I really believe it should be illegal.

Appling and Exploring

2. The company I choose to do some research on is Omaha Steaks Corporation.  I love these steaks and personally love to eat them often. This is clearly a factory farm, just based on the mass selling of these steaks all across the nation. It’s obvious from the website they are no family farm, nor do they pretend to be. They know very well how good their steaks are and do not need to tell any lies to still make a profit.

4. The human culture is very ignorant and turns living beings into non- human commodities very often. WE as humans very done this with many things, such as slaves. They are people to and we treated them as if their only purpose was to work. Some parents turn their own children into non- human commodities, when they try to force them into fame or some other ridiculous fantasy they could never pursue. Also in illegal drug smuggling operations, the Cartel, turns humans into moving containers for their drugs, just to make a profit. And finally the worst of them all, if I do say so myself, sex slavery. All across the world girls are being sold to be drugged, raped, and killed. These are very few of the many ways humans turn living beings into non-human commodities.