Script+-+Jacob,+Brooks+&+Givi

Introduction:

Brooks: Have you ever wondered to yourself, "What exactly is in the food we eat?" Unfortunately, it isn't pretty. When fast food companies say that their food is "pure" or "100%", they aren't really telling the truth.

Givi: Almost all of the meat we eat on a daily basis is processed. The meats are made on production lines that move very fast, and many mistakes are made. Because of these mistakes, the food we eat is extremely unhealthy and unsanitary. There are also not enough USDA health inspectors to inspect the production lines and meat, leaving it unhealthy and contaminated.

Jacob: Also, meat processing plants and fast food companies are pumping chemicals and preservatives into their foods. Most of these chemicals and preservatives are unhealthy, and are not meant for the human body to consume.

Problem:

Brooks: The main problem is we have absolutely no idea what we are really eating. Most of these "hidden" ingredients are found in the meat at fast food restaurants.

Brooks: Fast food corporations release the minimum amount of food information and food history because they don't want the people who eat their food to know what they are really eating. For example, there is a reason McDonald's didn't release the information about one ingredient in the McRib, azodicarbonamide, which is "a flour bleaching agent most commonly used in the manufacturing of foamed plastics like gym mats and the soles of shoes". (TheWeek). They didn't release this because McDonald's knew that if the people heard this, nobody would eat the McRib, one of their most popular items.

Jacob: Another problem is production lines. The production lines work very fast, and often make mistakes. These mistakes lead ti unhealthy and unsanitary foods. There also aren't enough USDA health inspectors to examine the plants, production lines, and meat and animals before butchering, thus leading to more and more outcomes of unhealthy food.

Givi: Lastly, farming and grazing animals has become a much more corrupt process. Farms have turned into factory farms, facilities where hundreds of thousands of animals are housed, and given growth hormones and steroids, in order to make their muscles expand, leading to larger animals, then leading to more meat to ship out per animal. Inside the factories, animals are abused to the point of physical exhaustion, and become very ill, leading to tainted products, due to the amount of animals in the facilities disease and illness spreads rapidly.

Background:

Jacob: Meat processing used to be a very delicate and slow process. Today, tons if meat goes through processing plants every day. In the 1900's, man powered machines were used to process meat which allowed very few flaws or errors. Meat was bought locally then under family operated establishments, from small family owned butcher shops to local hundred acre farms. Today, meat is being processed in huge facilities where animals are given unnatural supplements and shipped many miles to your local grocery stores. Food borne illness can be widespread, now that yo have so much transportation and thousands of animals in overcrowded farms.

Givi: In today's meat there are many chemicals that are used to (protect) or (preserve) the meat. These chemicals are very dangerous to our bodies. Instead of using salt to preserve our meat we use synthetic substances.

Solutions:

Brooks: The solutions to having our food safer again are safe and inexpensive. A simple solution but with large impact would be slowing down productions lines. This would insure that little to no errors would be made and employees would have better moving conditions. In addition to slowing production lines, hiring more USDA inspectors would help monitor the health of the animals and what is in the animals, along with the cleanliness and sanitation of larger facilities.

Givi: Since people don't know what goes in our food government and media should inform the public about this epidemic. With public knowledge, the movement to fix this problem would grow and become a contradiction to the large companies to accept the solutions.

Benefits:

Brooks: If all three of our solutions work, they will indefinitely have a positive outcome. People will begin to have a healthier lifestyle, the amount of people with healthy immune systems will rise, and problems like heart health, obesity, and cholesterol will decrease. People will begin to make better and healthier choices as to what exactly they eat from now on. Food bourne illnesses will have a significant decrease as well. The health of the animals will no longer be an issue and if the animals are not give supplements, then diseases and illnesses in humans will decrease. With our food being properly and thoroughly inspected, we will be aware of what is in our food and there will be no tracings of things such as tendons or eyeballs in things like hot dogs or chicken. So with a healthier and more sanitary approach to the food industry, the apparent national obesity epidemic rates should significantly decrease due to the healthier and cleaner alternatives being created.

Opponents Objectives:

Jacob: There are many reasonable objections to our revolutions, but they can be easily overruled or proven false. Many people believe that it is not the facilities fault that the meat we eat is tainted but the people who prepare it. People think that if you cook a meal properly there is no risk of getting food poisoning.

Givi: In low income areas people can't afford to eat healthy foods, instead they eat fast food because it is affordable. Also many people believe that with the advanced technology we have today it is extremely rare that bacteria is in the meat at the processing plant.

Opponent's error:

Jacob: We can prove these methods of ideas because they have been proven false or probable. Meat may not be cooked in the establishments or facilities, yet processes are quite horrific. In order to make their chicken nuggets companies will grind live, skinned chickens up in a machine, till the texture or substance almost becomes a tooth paste. Yet it's pink, Then they bread and fry the chicken. High tech technology does not keep meat products safe, when processes like meat packaging lines are boxing up their meat, the patties often fall off the conveyer belts yet they put the patties back on the belts, leading to tainted, unsanitary meat. Lastly, fast food companies are only looking for money, and the cheapest way to manufacture and ship their food. They don't care what it takes for them to get there. Factory Farms exploit the animals in dark cramp facilities and giving animals steroids and hormones to make more meat to cut & ship. Hormones can lead to cancers and make people terminally ill for the rest of their lives.

Call to Action:

Brooks: In order for all of this to happen, we need the word to spread. Everybody needs to know, and information needs to be released from credible sources that people rely on everyday.

People trust government officials and if the word is spread through them, the people are going to act. When the people act, the government will pass a bill forcing fast food restaurants to release all of their ingredients.

Word will also spread through media. People always listen to the news for current information, and people are also easily persuaded by the media. If the information is released through the media, people are bound to listen and react.