When looking through the units we’ve been through since the beginning of the year, I’ve come to realize that Americans would be at a complete lost if it weren’t for our retarded government system. The constitution basically controls our lives. Capitalism controls our lives by infiltrating our working minds. Birth is changed greatly and made to look like a disease. Health care is very unjust and many Americans do not have it because they can’t afford it. Our economy is made to look like everyone is equal and how hard you work defines how successful you are. Food is just a fucked up mess that the majority of Americans are completely oblivious to. Energy is the basis of life, but people do not know that the way we get it has a massive affect on the environment. Americans will not resist authority, it’s almost as if we were brainwashed to believe that the United States of America is the best place the live because of its so-called “prosperous” economy.
The constitution, Americans refuse to disobey this sacred piece of paper containing racist, sexist, and unfair rules that are suppose to control our wholes lives. The constitution was created by evil, lying white supremacists who used euphemisms throughout the constitution. The constitution was written so it could control the government that controlled the Americans. There are rules in it that shape our lives. The constitution was set up to keep things from being equal. All the powers are definitively separated. Power was separated to prevent a possible tyranny and to keep the powers to the rich people. When power is not granted to the citizens of America, we citizens become scared. We are scared because we cannot fight back with small numbers but there are not enough people to fight the government system. The constitution is a solid base that will not be broken because the people with power do not care for the little pests that lack in power.
Capitalism is the way the government handles sales in the United States. It is suppose to be an economic system in which goods and services are produced, consumed and distributed through the mechanism of free markets based deeply on the right to private property and the profit motive. What a lie. I agree with my history teacher, Andy’s, definition of capitalism. He stated that “Capitalism is an economic system in which the overflowing majority toil for the profit of the tiny minority. “We work, they profit.” What Andy is saying here is that the working class makes up the majority of America and they all work for the minority of rich business owners who don’t do any work but gain profit on the labor of the majority. These business owners start out with wealth and create capital. When capital is created, labor is needed to make the profit. When the profit is made, the business owners collect it and hands out small portions of it to their workers and keep the majority of it to themselves. Which they then use to create more capital and the cycle starts again because the business owners had already started out with wealth in their pockets.
Capitalism has alienated our lives from ourselves. Labor has been commodified and alienated. The working class and below have no wealth, therefore they don’t own any commodities. The only thing they know how to sell is their own labor. They have learned to commodify their own bodies in order to make a living while the rich white folk sit back and relax as hundreds of Americans are making money for them.
Once again Americans will not resist the authority of their employers so they can maybe have better benefits. Americans will do anything to make money; they will not risk losing their jobs because they want to stand up for themselves one day. Capitalists will continue to expropriate the workers who work hard to support their families. In the end, the American way of life is not family based, it is entirely work based.
Birth is seen with similarity to a science experiment. Doctors like to explore the inner depths of a woman’s body so they can know what is the best possible way for women to give birth. In reality, the best way for a woman to give birth is by listening to her own body. She does not need the drugs involved in giving birth according to doctoral commands. This is another incident where Americans will always listen to authority. If the doctor said the woman had to get a c- section even if she didn’t want one to start with, she is walking out of that hospital after an expensive 2 days stay with stitches across her belly. In times of crisis, human beings tend to do what the alpha power chooses, obediently.
People both long for and fear chaos. But when doctors take control, they begin to take too much control to try and relieve stress but the pressure from the doctor will on put more stress on the mom and baby. Borders cross and good becomes evil.
As seen in the biased movie “Business of Being Born” midwives are the better and more conventional way to go for births. Even though the movie was really biased in showing only the pros of midwifery and the cons of hospital births, I agree that midwives are the better way to go. It is a way for Americans to fight back authority. When midwives are chosen, women are not giving doctors the satisfaction of controlling another birth. Women are not allowing doctors to have their way in order to make the most amount of money for themselves. Medical decisions are made by monetary and legal decisions rather than what is best for the mother.
There is also the question of money when it comes to birth. When women are pregnant, they are at a higher risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, or possibly death and others. Insurance companies do not want to pay for you. Insurance companies want you to pay them. So they will raise your rate if they catch wind of a possible ailment that you may have. When the rate is raised, Americans need to work harder to pay for their life insurance.
When an American receives a paycheck, the whole paycheck is never taken home. The government taxes it and takes some out for this so called social security savings that they’ll never see.
When Danish kids visited us from Denmark, they taught us about their government and health system and vice versa. We learned that it was actually hard to be poor in Denmark. Everything there is a given. Free health care, free college, and free hospital visits. Though their highest tax bracket may have been 63% it doesn’t mean that 63% of their paychecks when to taxes. 63% is just the nominal tax, in actuality, the people there are paying the same taxes as we are but in addition they are getting stuff for free while we have to pay for it all.
Taxes in the United States may all seem equal. But $5000 worth of taxes could be easily paid by a rich person whereas $5000 would take a large toll on a lower social class. When it comes to health insurance, it looks like rich people are going to survive longer than the lower social classes. Our government is not egalitarian.
In the movie SiCKO, Michael Moore showed us how hard it is for lower class individuals to receive health care. This was also a biased movie that I sided with. Moore did not show any pros to the American health care system. Instead he showed us that being a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay is better than being a U.S. citizen. He did not show us the torture that the prisoners go through and how some health cares are indeed affordable in America. Moore described to us that in order to people to get the medications they need, they get married to Canadians or follow Moore onto a ship to Guantanamo.
Michael Moore showed us ways to go against authority and fight for our right to stay healthy without having to relinquish our paychecks to multiple taxes and health agencies. The question of the matter is, will Americans follow his advice? Will we go against authority? The answer is no. We become lost and scared without the government riding on our asses telling us what is the right thing to do and how we should do it.
Food is one of the main aspects of life. We will die without food. We, Americans, all consume food on a daily basis multiple times a day but we never knew where our food really came from until now. Food starts out innocent, becomes dirty and disgusting and then we eat it all when it’s cooked and tasty. Food is derived from the natural resources of the land. We steal the nutrients of the land to provide ourselves with large amount of food to support a large population because agriculture was introduced.
The introduction to agriculture was all the start of our slow demise. We have become lazy slums who are entirely reliant on machinery to provide us with our living needs. We are letting machinery take over the cultural aspects of the American Way of Life. We have let our lives get controlled by various different authorities because we are too lazy to haul our asses around to do our own work and to stand up for ourselves. No, we just let the government handle things and we just sit back and do our own thing. Be it working or just taking leisure time, we are not controlling our lives. The government has corrupted us with the idea that they are letting us take control of our lives by taking control of the major aspects of life so we don’t have to worry about them. As a result they go behind our backs and perform inhuman acts to animal so we apathetic Americans can enjoy our meat. We enjoy the meat so much that humans cannot handle the amounts of meat produced so animals are put through cycles of a factory in order for there to be enough to go around.
Agriculture has made America explode with people and technology. With new technology brings more food which brings more people who then bring more technology. This is a continual cycle that will soon break because we will soon run out of natural resources.
Our natural resources are not being preserved so they can have time to grow again. We are using so much of it so fast that there can only be so much in the world. The nutrients are being sucked out of the earth so fast that there isn’t enough time for the earth to reproduce it. Accordingly, Americans will pour steroids and excess nutrients in order to liven the soil to which our produce will grow.
Nutrients will always be back, trees can grow back over time if given it but what about our oil and fossil fuel? Oil and fossil fuel is the basis of our lives. If they run out what will we do? Sure there will be the sun but the sun will soon become to hot because of the holes in the ozone layer caused by the pollution from the oils and gases we used. We can go to the authorities and they will tell us to just relax, everything will be taken care of and we will do exactly that because Americans are blind mice letting his cheese get stolen by his neighbors. We will turn or backs to the problem because we do not feel that we have the authoritative power to do something. Because we will be scared and helpless but all we’ll say is “the government will take care of it”.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Our Collapse
Our economy is going in a downward spiral towards our eventual demise. We are on a slow collapse as one would say. Our economy is falling but little people are really noticing. The government is trying to cover up the collapse of the United States of America because mass panic is unnecessary. If Americans were to find out that the name that the United States achieved to be prosperous is now a lie, mass panic would throw us into a whirlwind of disastrous events.
It is true that the United States had once upheld the name of being prosperous but as soon as agriculture was introduced, we had a cultural boom that triggered the beginning of our downfall. When the American Way of Life was born, I can’t but help to reiterate from my paper on food ethics that, agriculture has made Americans lazy and dependant on machinery. Cultural boom = Population boom = infectious bacteria, viruses and deadly diseases.
Sure we could possibly have a cool collapse where everyone goes green and that looks like what the government is aiming for with all this green advertisement. Or it could just be another cover up for a much bigger disaster. I think the later is more likely. I feel that the government is trying to cover up a disaster that involves either our resources such as fossil fuel running out or that many holes are forming in our ozone layer allowing harmful UVA and UVB rays into the earth. It could possibly be that our pollutions from oil run factories and gas run vehicles and other forms of toxic waste is slowing destroying our earth and unlike in our example of drowning in class, we’re all going to toast like the villagers of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted. (The people of Pompeii died instantly and were encased in full body casts from the ash that went through the town. Wikipedia)
It is true that the United States had once upheld the name of being prosperous but as soon as agriculture was introduced, we had a cultural boom that triggered the beginning of our downfall. When the American Way of Life was born, I can’t but help to reiterate from my paper on food ethics that, agriculture has made Americans lazy and dependant on machinery. Cultural boom = Population boom = infectious bacteria, viruses and deadly diseases.
Sure we could possibly have a cool collapse where everyone goes green and that looks like what the government is aiming for with all this green advertisement. Or it could just be another cover up for a much bigger disaster. I think the later is more likely. I feel that the government is trying to cover up a disaster that involves either our resources such as fossil fuel running out or that many holes are forming in our ozone layer allowing harmful UVA and UVB rays into the earth. It could possibly be that our pollutions from oil run factories and gas run vehicles and other forms of toxic waste is slowing destroying our earth and unlike in our example of drowning in class, we’re all going to toast like the villagers of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted. (The people of Pompeii died instantly and were encased in full body casts from the ash that went through the town. Wikipedia)
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Paper on Food Ethics
Through the unit on food, I learned many valuable lessons. Or should I should say I learned many facts since my food ways haven't changed. Food around the world is definitely not an easy subject to study when it comes to moral understanding. When we watch videos of less fortunate, third-world countries that suffer from starvation it is hard not to ponder ways that we can help. The same goes for animal cruelty. When I watched the videos that explained where our meat comes from it's unsettling to the stomach. It's hard to watch them without flinching or feeling squeamish. Agriculture has also troubled our American Way of Life. It has changed the way we live entirely but not without consequences. The food unit has opened up all our innocent minds to the reality of the food industry and how much it affects people around the world.
The United States is a prosperous country with a selfish government but even as we are slowly heading towards our collapse, we are still able to feed Americans for the time being. When the homeless are hungry, soup kitchens and shelters are opened to them with welcoming arms. Though our food may not be as great as the sterilized plants of Japan in the article "Industrial Food in Japan in 2.0", it is good enough to keep us all alive and going as was explained in the movie "Crude Impact".
We are a fast growing population and we have an abundance of this crappy food. But since our government is so selfish, all this surplus food is kept in warehouses for possible emergencies. Sure we can pass out food to Americans but we should be smart enough to store our own food. Instead of keeping it all we should provide third-world countries with supplies and food that we do not need. They definitely need it more than us.
Animals are the main source of the food in the United States but rarely do people wonder where all the meat comes from. Through our unit, we had to explore the dark evils of the meat industry.
Meat came to be in a very peculiar way, rather disgusting as a matter of fact. Animals, specifically chickens, pigs and cows are treated as if they were already dead and not living things. In a way those animals are considered already dead assuming the road that they are on but I like to think of them as living things that breathe and eat like humans do.
From the videos that we were shown of animal cruelty, meat came to be from animals who were not taken well care of. The animals, three species alike, were confined to small spaces with little to no space to move with the exception of bulls. The animals are given hormonal shots that made them gain excessive weight that their legs could not support. They are then fed grain instead of natural grass and hay feed because the consumption of grain would lead to meatier animals. The old, sick, dying or just the ones with weak legs are killed because they do not meet the standards of the meat industry. It’s surprising that they would have standards at all because the conditions that the animals live in are worse than the conditions of a homeless human. Needless to say, our meat came from tortured animals.
Jared Diamond stated that agriculture is the worst mistake of human history. I agree. Agriculture has indeed made our lives easier but it has not improved our living environments and styles. It has made us all band together in large groups that grow exponentially. Our large groups soon instigated the evolvement of new bacteria and viruses that lead to incurable diseases such as cancer or HIV. Diamond stated that if a modern man of today were given the choice of living as a nomad of an ape like our ancestors, he would surely say no. This answer is due to the fact that agriculture has made humans lazy. Instead of getting our food and energy from sweat and hard work, we get it from fuel burning machinery. Agriculture has made us lazy because we are so reliant on this machinery that if we were to run out of natural resources that fueled our laziness, we wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves. The nomads and apes, the ancestors who we refuse to demote our social stability to, will be the ones to survive because they know how to hunt and gather food from the wild.
In the end, humans are lazy and the technology that has brought us so much leisure will lead to our eventual downfall.
The United States is a prosperous country with a selfish government but even as we are slowly heading towards our collapse, we are still able to feed Americans for the time being. When the homeless are hungry, soup kitchens and shelters are opened to them with welcoming arms. Though our food may not be as great as the sterilized plants of Japan in the article "Industrial Food in Japan in 2.0", it is good enough to keep us all alive and going as was explained in the movie "Crude Impact".
We are a fast growing population and we have an abundance of this crappy food. But since our government is so selfish, all this surplus food is kept in warehouses for possible emergencies. Sure we can pass out food to Americans but we should be smart enough to store our own food. Instead of keeping it all we should provide third-world countries with supplies and food that we do not need. They definitely need it more than us.
Animals are the main source of the food in the United States but rarely do people wonder where all the meat comes from. Through our unit, we had to explore the dark evils of the meat industry.
Meat came to be in a very peculiar way, rather disgusting as a matter of fact. Animals, specifically chickens, pigs and cows are treated as if they were already dead and not living things. In a way those animals are considered already dead assuming the road that they are on but I like to think of them as living things that breathe and eat like humans do.
From the videos that we were shown of animal cruelty, meat came to be from animals who were not taken well care of. The animals, three species alike, were confined to small spaces with little to no space to move with the exception of bulls. The animals are given hormonal shots that made them gain excessive weight that their legs could not support. They are then fed grain instead of natural grass and hay feed because the consumption of grain would lead to meatier animals. The old, sick, dying or just the ones with weak legs are killed because they do not meet the standards of the meat industry. It’s surprising that they would have standards at all because the conditions that the animals live in are worse than the conditions of a homeless human. Needless to say, our meat came from tortured animals.
Jared Diamond stated that agriculture is the worst mistake of human history. I agree. Agriculture has indeed made our lives easier but it has not improved our living environments and styles. It has made us all band together in large groups that grow exponentially. Our large groups soon instigated the evolvement of new bacteria and viruses that lead to incurable diseases such as cancer or HIV. Diamond stated that if a modern man of today were given the choice of living as a nomad of an ape like our ancestors, he would surely say no. This answer is due to the fact that agriculture has made humans lazy. Instead of getting our food and energy from sweat and hard work, we get it from fuel burning machinery. Agriculture has made us lazy because we are so reliant on this machinery that if we were to run out of natural resources that fueled our laziness, we wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves. The nomads and apes, the ancestors who we refuse to demote our social stability to, will be the ones to survive because they know how to hunt and gather food from the wild.
In the end, humans are lazy and the technology that has brought us so much leisure will lead to our eventual downfall.
Friday, May 29, 2009
When Answering the Phone
When a family member calls, i would say hello? and would always be greeted with "have you eaten yet?" When i say "yes" it sounds as if ive fufilled their dreams by feeding myself. If i responded with "no" i would be barraged by questions along the lines of: " when are you going to eat?", "What are you going to eat?", " Will you go eat?"
i find it funny that we had that lesson in class today about how its joyful to eat rogether. I seems as though people are also happy when other people around them eat too.
i find it funny that we had that lesson in class today about how its joyful to eat rogether. I seems as though people are also happy when other people around them eat too.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
We Changed Our Minds
Chelsea and I changed our minds and decided to make these cookies instead because we didn't want to get all the ingredients for the previous recipes. These were harder to make than we thought. Baking is extremely hard. All the ingredients were suppose to be perfectly measured and it was hard since i lost my teaspoon measuring thing. While we were blending all the ingredients together my mixer started to smoke out of the back. We really don't know how we managed to do that but the overall mission was a success. Chelsea has the pictures of our journey on her blog.
Ultimate Maple Snickerdoodle
PREP TIME 15 Min
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 35 Min
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons real maple syrup
1 egg
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup maple sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and 1 cup of white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and maple syrup. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients until just mixed. In a small dish, mix together the remaining 1/2 cup white sugar and the maple sugar. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and roll the balls in the sugar mixture. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be crackly on top and look wet in the middle. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
PREP TIME 20 Min
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 1 Hr
INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.
Ultimate Maple Snickerdoodle
PREP TIME 15 Min
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 35 Min
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine, softened
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons real maple syrup
1 egg
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup maple sugar
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and 1 cup of white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and maple syrup. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients until just mixed. In a small dish, mix together the remaining 1/2 cup white sugar and the maple sugar. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and roll the balls in the sugar mixture. Place cookies 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies will be crackly on top and look wet in the middle. Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
PREP TIME 20 Min
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 1 Hr
INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
What?! >:O
From the title of this blog I'm sure you can assume one of the videos I had watched. Animal cruelty. Seriously?? That shit is just crazy. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't watch it till the end. I couldn't. I never understood why there were so many animal cruelty prevention groups and why there was so much surrounding animal cruelty. I only knew it as animal testing and mutilations because products were tested on animals. I never knew that the meat that shows up in my food came from these kind of places. Please tell me that there are better places to get the food and that this was only the worst place to get meat because i really can't go vegetarian. I have always thought about it but i never could bring myself to do it because of my large consumption of meat. If i were to become a vegetarian, I don't think my family would support me because they have always been worried about my health since i was young. My culture is also very meat centered. On special occasions such as birthdays or Chinese New Year, a chicken and roasted pig are placed on the table for praying so they can be blessed before we eat them. I highly doubt that having a blessing will take away the pain they went through to get on our dinner table. Is it better to get poultry from a small poultry place where the poultry is treated better? Because my mom and dad are always getting poultry from a live poultry place 10 minutes from our house. I feel that it is better because the animals are not tortured as in the video. The animals are not given the steroids to grow them. On the other hand I think it's just the same. A small poultry place had to have gotten their animals from somewhere. They are just the slaughter house of small proportions. This video had a great impact on me. I really got me thinking. I didn't like it. I feel as if I'm put into a tough position. I feel guilty that I eat meat and I don't feel as though I will stop.
Another video i watched was the Meatrix. This series of videos was similar to the animal cruelty video. I brought light to the watchers eye about what really goes on in the real world with meat. It is definitely not like the pastures on television where animals move and live freely. This video along with the animal cruelty video brought on a cruel truth. When I got upstate with my family, I can look out the window and see cows grazing in the grass and they seem to be enjoying themselves. I can also go down the road of the house where the neighbor has a small chicken pen and the chicken are always running freely across the lawn. I may be able to see these things as we go but i think about in the end, they die. They die for the benefit of humanity. When we go grocery shopping and we go to the meat section and I see all the meat packaged all nice and neatly, I don't think about the dirty dirty past that the meat went through to get into those shiny plastic containers. Speaking on the lines of nice and neat and free animals, there is this commercial on TV about happy cows in California producing healthy milk. They say that the best milk comes from happy cows in California. Real California Milk. What a fucking lie! I seen the part where the cows are impregnated every year and the calves are stripped from them the moment they're born because the workers need the damn milk for a profit. And after the cows have been used until they are no longer able to produce milk, they are auctioned for slaughter. And then there's that stupid Perdue commercial about healthy and happy chicken with no steroids, I'm not sure if i should even believe that anymore. The guy on TV may look nice but he could be just the same cold hearted killer as in the the videos. These corporate people know how to sell their shit and make it look like the best stuff on earth. That's fucking bullshit.
I also watched the Pollan vs. Colbert video. I didn't get much from that video, it was just informative on how the majority of food in the world is fake. Its all processed and that we should eat more "real" stuff. But does Pollan realize that the organic stuff sold in groceries and supermarkets are expensive and not everyone can afford it even if they did want to go healthy. With our economy anyone would be lucky and fairly well off to be able to eat organic foods all the time. Sure we can plant our own but who has time when every one's worried about their finances in this falling economy? Pollan is right to suggest that we should go more natural on our food habits but he has to keep in mind of the less fortunate people who must work hard to make their much needed money. They will hardly have to time to put proper nutrition into their bodies.
Another video i watched was the Meatrix. This series of videos was similar to the animal cruelty video. I brought light to the watchers eye about what really goes on in the real world with meat. It is definitely not like the pastures on television where animals move and live freely. This video along with the animal cruelty video brought on a cruel truth. When I got upstate with my family, I can look out the window and see cows grazing in the grass and they seem to be enjoying themselves. I can also go down the road of the house where the neighbor has a small chicken pen and the chicken are always running freely across the lawn. I may be able to see these things as we go but i think about in the end, they die. They die for the benefit of humanity. When we go grocery shopping and we go to the meat section and I see all the meat packaged all nice and neatly, I don't think about the dirty dirty past that the meat went through to get into those shiny plastic containers. Speaking on the lines of nice and neat and free animals, there is this commercial on TV about happy cows in California producing healthy milk. They say that the best milk comes from happy cows in California. Real California Milk. What a fucking lie! I seen the part where the cows are impregnated every year and the calves are stripped from them the moment they're born because the workers need the damn milk for a profit. And after the cows have been used until they are no longer able to produce milk, they are auctioned for slaughter. And then there's that stupid Perdue commercial about healthy and happy chicken with no steroids, I'm not sure if i should even believe that anymore. The guy on TV may look nice but he could be just the same cold hearted killer as in the the videos. These corporate people know how to sell their shit and make it look like the best stuff on earth. That's fucking bullshit.
I also watched the Pollan vs. Colbert video. I didn't get much from that video, it was just informative on how the majority of food in the world is fake. Its all processed and that we should eat more "real" stuff. But does Pollan realize that the organic stuff sold in groceries and supermarkets are expensive and not everyone can afford it even if they did want to go healthy. With our economy anyone would be lucky and fairly well off to be able to eat organic foods all the time. Sure we can plant our own but who has time when every one's worried about their finances in this falling economy? Pollan is right to suggest that we should go more natural on our food habits but he has to keep in mind of the less fortunate people who must work hard to make their much needed money. They will hardly have to time to put proper nutrition into their bodies.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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