The state of what we eat
I have seen so many web-videos showing the horrors of farming animals. Peta, chooseveg.com, the list goes on for hours. So many vegies and vegans telling us that factory animal farms are the problem, that we need to stop eating meat - that if will do, it will somehow make our food more healthful, more real, more sustainable.
My question is where are all the websites and videos showing us the truth about farming, at all. And if to refuse to eat is the solution, what can the average person really do? Stop eating.
We live in a society that has made every farm, whether animal or crop, a factory. Not only are animals being mutilated - the earth is, too. Mile-square farms produced year after year, with no crop roataion destroys the soil. Chemicals used as pesticides and used to "enrich" the trampled soil are poisoning our water systems. Genetic altering are making our tomatoes cheaper, bright red, tasteless and bland. Real (now termed "heirloom" so we can be ripped off for them) tomatoes are few and far between. When did reality become a comodity?
So, I ask again, where are the don't eat factory-crop videos?
My question is where are all the websites and videos showing us the truth about farming, at all. And if to refuse to eat is the solution, what can the average person really do? Stop eating.
We live in a society that has made every farm, whether animal or crop, a factory. Not only are animals being mutilated - the earth is, too. Mile-square farms produced year after year, with no crop roataion destroys the soil. Chemicals used as pesticides and used to "enrich" the trampled soil are poisoning our water systems. Genetic altering are making our tomatoes cheaper, bright red, tasteless and bland. Real (now termed "heirloom" so we can be ripped off for them) tomatoes are few and far between. When did reality become a comodity?
So, I ask again, where are the don't eat factory-crop videos?
2 Thought(s):
Remember the basis of all of the look at what we are doing to the world videos is that we are a scourge, a pestilence. Humans are nothing but a form of pollution. For the world to run correctly, people should become extinct. Thus, the PETA, goveg, etc. would agree that, yes, the solution is to stop eating altogether. Of course, The Bible says otherwise. We are called to be good stewards. That means we can use the natural resources, but we should not abuse them. It's that fine line that parents know, between discipline and abuse.
G-D bless,
Jeff
It just depresses me how many people bitch about how we are such terrible stewards with animals (which we are), but nobody seems to care that we are also being bad stewards with the soil and ecosystems, etc.
Other than organizations like Greenpeace - but they aren't helping us think local and shop local/organic, though. Which is just even more depressing.
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