Greed and Negligence
Drugs, meat, greed, and negligence all collide in My Year of Meats on the Dunns’ feedlot in Colorado.
In MYOM, Gale Dunn uses illegal DES in his feedlot. Gale wants to earn more money without having to do extra work. Gale feels he can only do this by giving his cows drugs that make them meatier. He neglects to observe the changes that have occurred in his body and his stepsister’s body, and he neglects to take into account the repercussions his illegal and immoral action could have on the population that eats Dunn Farm’s meats.
The potential physical results of this collision are obvious. DES could affect the development and reproductive abilities of quite possibly anyone who eats the tainted meat. For example, Rose Dunn develops improperly because she is always around the DES– she already has breasts, pubic hair, and menstrual cycles at age five. DES meat could potentially take motherhood away from generations of women due to its negative effects on their reproductive systems. This collision of drugs, meat, greed, and negligence could also morph the idea of what it is to be a woman in America. Woman could become separated into two species: childbearing and non-childbearing.
This collision could also result in the destruction of the image of the old American West that defines the U.S. Americans and the rest of the world seem to think of the United States as a place full of plains, cowboys, clean air, and clean living. When we find out that there are drugs in our meat, the plains disappear; the cowboys become businessmen dressed in austere suits hiding money behind their backs, and the clean air and clean living seems as dirty as anywhere else in the world. People would start to lose faith in America because it would become a place and a people they no longer could trust.
Overall, this collision could potentially cause the world to lose trust in America (not that anyone trusts it anyways), and the redefinition of the woman’s place in the American society.
In MYOM, Gale Dunn uses illegal DES in his feedlot. Gale wants to earn more money without having to do extra work. Gale feels he can only do this by giving his cows drugs that make them meatier. He neglects to observe the changes that have occurred in his body and his stepsister’s body, and he neglects to take into account the repercussions his illegal and immoral action could have on the population that eats Dunn Farm’s meats.
The potential physical results of this collision are obvious. DES could affect the development and reproductive abilities of quite possibly anyone who eats the tainted meat. For example, Rose Dunn develops improperly because she is always around the DES– she already has breasts, pubic hair, and menstrual cycles at age five. DES meat could potentially take motherhood away from generations of women due to its negative effects on their reproductive systems. This collision of drugs, meat, greed, and negligence could also morph the idea of what it is to be a woman in America. Woman could become separated into two species: childbearing and non-childbearing.
This collision could also result in the destruction of the image of the old American West that defines the U.S. Americans and the rest of the world seem to think of the United States as a place full of plains, cowboys, clean air, and clean living. When we find out that there are drugs in our meat, the plains disappear; the cowboys become businessmen dressed in austere suits hiding money behind their backs, and the clean air and clean living seems as dirty as anywhere else in the world. People would start to lose faith in America because it would become a place and a people they no longer could trust.
Overall, this collision could potentially cause the world to lose trust in America (not that anyone trusts it anyways), and the redefinition of the woman’s place in the American society.
posted by SurdeEden at 9/10/2006 08:00:00 PM
1 Comments:
So, I think that all women want to be able to have children, whether they like children or not. Its just something that defines a woman in American culture, however, maybe the ability to have children isnt such a defining characteristic. maybe it should be something else.
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