...The lecture in itself is about industrialized meat production and factory farming: the way animals are being raised for food today which has changed in the last 50 to 60 years. Whereas there were normally smaller family-run farms, production has now shifted to huge concentrated barns with animals crammed together in close confinement according to Messier.
“They’re being fed growth promoters and antibiotics. People are not really aware of the damaging effects to the environment on all these animals. I think a lot of people sort of know it in the back of their minds but they really don’t. I’ve done a lot of research on this in the last two years and there is talk about it, there are more books about it and movies like Food Inc., documentaries of that nature and more books being written about it but I think certainly at the local level we don’t really talk about where our food comes from. There’s a bit of a disconnect,” she said.
The lecture will cover the various methods of confinement for various animal species, how they’re raised, the food that they’re given, the drugs that they’re given, how they are transported to slaughter. Messier will touch a little bit on the slaughter process and how food gets into the supermarket, a little bit about how that meat is labelled, some of it being really misguiding according to her.
....Anyone who is interested in eating healthy, is interested in the environment and believe that animals should be have some respect and high standards of welfare will enjoy the information that is going to be presented or at least find it interesting,” she concluded.
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