thoughtinprocess

The concept of polluting the very environment that we live in is nothing new to myself or my parents for that matter. The author was born in 1983, well into the "prime" of the meat packing industry. Growth hormones, antibiotics, steroids, and pesticides are all synonymous with the last twenty years of America household consumption of food. The idea that everything that I have ever eaten has some degree of synthetic make-up is beyond comprehension. The idea that profits out weigh the cost of the "diginity of life" has truly dealt its final hand. We can only maintain the degree of degredation that we allow corporate interests to subject us to. The socio-economic hegomy that characterizes the middle and upper class of the worlds wealth has over-expanded itself. What will become of this monstrosoty that has our very own neighbors involved in the slow yet constant fattening crawl to death. I can not help but wonder what the effects of this social-ecological-syndrome that will surely have an impact on man and woman in the coming years.