The food industries have much persuasion over regulatory organizations and can therefore assist in establishing laws that protect them. One of the ways that the food industries assist in establishing laws that protect them is through CFE s or Common Farming Exemptions. CFEs make any action legal as long as it is commonly practiced in the industry. In the book Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, he agrees with my statement when he asserts that “ If the industry(food industry) adopts a practice—hacking off unwanted appendages with no painkillers, for example, but you can let your imagination run with this—it automatically becomes legal”(Foer,51). CFEs are an absurd proposition because this allows for cruelty to pervade throughout the food industries. For instance, if companies suddenly embraced a policy of hacking dogs for enjoyment. This practice would become legal. In my opinion even though CFEs are enacted state by state the practices will still almost certainly be completely ridiculous wherever they exist.
