Monday, March 2, 2009

Mystery Meat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqAMt_C7kw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FH8AQzk4HM

Face it, if you are not bothered about where your meat(if you eat meat) comes from then you need some serious help. Animals are now machines lacking any real life outside bars. No grass to eat, trees to lay under or any real choice if they would like antibiotics and steroids in their bodies. Confinement is torture, corn is unhealthy and disease is prevalent, yet this form of farming still goes untouched. Wake up!!, if all you continue to care about is getting the cheapest meal, you have more to worry about than you think. Our food choices have one of the greatest impacts, if not the greatest impact on the environment. Way more than oil spills considering, animal waste is constantly being put into our water ways. Yet we take a stand for mountain top removal, we cry about Exxon making billions off us, and continue to argue if global warming is true or not.
Most of these things are balls in motions with too much momentum to stop, food choices are not. If you think you can't make a change, your crazy! Choosing to eat locally produced meats might seem like too much work. Sometimes its hard but this too me is a good thing, a natural thing. We have become too used to immediate gratification, if we are hungry we eat. No longer do people often forage or hunt, quite honestly humans have made it harder on themselves to. Highways here, malls there, farms no longer in sight, unless you are unfortunate enough to live next to a factory farm. Meat is vaccum sealed and frozen, having no knoweldge of where it came from or how long ago the animal was alive, we tear into it.
Mass slaughters daily, one after another after another, five thousand animals later the day will end. I ask you say the fifth or even fiftieth animal was sick, had some disease, infection or abnormality. Do they slaughter that animal and sell it as meat, or in our case mystery meat? Sure, why not it is for profit right? the most profit possible, who cares the consequences. This is where i begin to care, to think that i can change something, to take a stand.
I ask you, will you take a stand or will you continue eat that ground round by the pound? chow it down chow it down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tlcnU6ysOs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gi5IEjeH6E

1 comment:

  1. Great topic and good statement. I think it may be challenging to incorporate some entertaining elements in it, but not impossible. I hope someone takes you up on this topic.

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