open letter katarzyna harasim

20-07 Woodbine Str 3L

Ridgewood, NY 11-385

31 May 2011

Assistant Minority Leader Robert L. Hedlund

State House

Room 313-C

Boston, MA 02133

Dear Senator Robert L. Hedlund

This is Katarzyna Harasim from New York City. It’s time we had a talk.

I grew up in Poland a country that isn't one the wealthiest, but I grew up with healthy foods. There are

so many farmers there. In fact my grandma and grandpa had their own fields of carrots, potatoes,

tomatoes, strawberries, greens, fruits. They had their own cows and chickens and pigs that they fed with

healthy grass. They knew what went into the animals and the food. I grew up eating healthy, wholesome

foods. Right now I’m attend school at LaGuardia Community College in New York city and am taking

English 101 course in which we are watching Food Inc. movie and I cannot tell you how angry it made

me also sick to my stomach to see how workers at shutter house treat the animals. How there is no

respect. How the cows and chickens die because of fear, dirt also oversight. My point is that latter on

these same meat we are consuming on our dining tables. According to Stephanie Ernst author of article

” Animal Use and Abuse Statistics” says every year, 10 billion farm animals are slaughtered for food in the

United States , 27 million each day and 19,000 every minute also Animal agriculture uses 37 percent of

all pesticides and 50 percent of antibiotics and produce huge to water pollution, danger for human and

nonhuman animal health and life. I am writing with the hope of appealing to your heart, your

conscience, and your common sense. We need new regulations for slaughter houses right now animals

living out their lives in darkness and immobility without the sight of the sun, of a generation of men who

see in the animal they rear only its conversion to human food. We must change the way animals are

raised put new regulations and laws on slaughterhouses and made them naturally organic farms . Farm

animals have the right and deserve to live a good healthy life till it's time to be food.

USDA and FDA should more care how farm animals became our meat at the grocery store, make sure

that these animals are treated right and slaughterhouses clean and and not so horrifying.

Everyone loves chicken but when we take a closer look how they got from farm in to our chicken table

We would not be capable to take a bite. Paul Shapiro in his article “Time to crack down on chicken

abuse” is talking how chickens are terrified before they end packed . 300,000 of chickens are tightly

growing in a dark, dusty, dirty chicken house at once. They are eating from the machines above them or

stuff that end up on the ground .Employees every day are sent in to throw out dead and sick chickens

after that put them into compost, that will find direction to get back into food chin. Also in past

chickens use to grow in to the adults age in 3 months, right now it’s six weeks.Its just because Because

companies want to have chicken with bigger breasts. These birds are that grow in 6 weeks can not walk,

balance and support them selves , their bones are so easy to break, because of growing too fast and

making growing their big.And its not just chickens that are obuse pigs are eating trash or caws that are

ment to eat gras are feeteng corn witch is not cabyble for them to digest and growing deep in manure.

That frome our meat comes from, And im truly against these disgusting farming. We need changed that.

Farm should be full of love and respect for animals that we will eat. The USDA and FDA should make

sure by making new laws that all farming animals are raised in

natural way, grass feed, and free walking.

In United States legal system we don’t have any specific laws that specify describe at what condition

farm animals should be raised. Farm animals the one that are raised for meat, egg, milk are most

abused by industries in the United States, according to the author of article “farmed animal and the

law” numbers are phenomenal almost abstruse . Investigations and industry whistleblowers have

discovered abuses on farms and at slaughterhouses that are so awful. Normally people cannot abide to

see them. Contempt their huge amount, and the badness of abuses farm animals. Farmed animals

receive not enough protections by our legal system today.

We need changes, and we need them now. In our country we should develop creative legal plan that

allow us to progression also develop above current law, and farm animals get finally protections

under our law. Please fight for each animal that we will eat. I would love to see green, lovely

and not harmful farms. That respect and treat animals without putting in them antibiotics and making

them sick. That would allow all of as to eat healthy meat. Thank you for reading this and your precious

time.

Sincerely,

Katarzyna Harasim