Chapter 12 Omnivore's Dilemma

Chapter 12 of Omnivore's Dilemma interested me quite a bit. Its a rare to hear of how your food was slaughter before it got to the supermarket or how the chickens were raised. On the Polyface farm they seem to have a great system going, as long as the USDA doesnt't continue to poke their nose around in agricultural farmers business. I believe that their should be more farms like the Polyface farm, because it allows people to see, if they want, exactly how their food is being slaughtered. This differs from supermarket chicken or meat, because the meat comes from slaughter houses where thousands of chickens were processed in a day. The long distances the meat has to ship also increases the time that it is exposed to germs and bacteria. Personally, I believe that the polyface farm is the way that all meat should be processed. Local farms sell locally to avoid the long distances that most food has to travel today. I also think a lot of people would be interested to see the conditions that their food was killed in and how they were treated before they were killed. Another thing I liked about the Polyface farm was how everything including decay was taken into account. Nothing was wasted, everything that was taken from the earth is put back the next spring to produce the next batch of chickens. Another thing that i agree with is that the USDA should have no right to regulate what local farmers can sell straight from their farm. The consumer has to step into the farm and determine if they want to buy something from them, which the USDA should have no part in.