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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 10:44 PM |
I just finished watching Fast Food Nation. I'd read the book years ago, and
it had its influence on me.
Seeing it, though... It really was an experience.
I had always had a good attitude toward meat. I was raised on a farm, our
cows were happy and healthy. They were killed humanely and the family cut
and packaged it without harm to anyone.. well, except the cows, who were
there specifically for being cut up and packaged for winter.
I intellectually knew that feed lots were bad, that meat packing plants
were bad, that the whole industy was bad. Seeing it on film is another
matter.
THOSE COWS WERE ALIVE.
They were alive when they were having horns and hooves cut off.
I know this film was meant to be manipulative. I went into it knowing that
it was made to play on my sympathies. I am stilll a carnivore at heart. I
still need that kind of protein to survive.
Some things are just wrong, though. I've been lazy and getting my stuff
from the regular grocery. I do once in a while, out of exhaustion, get fast
food.
I think I will make more of an effort from now on to spend the extra dollar
for organic, raised on a farm meat. Or send Rogue out with a gun into the
woods for some deer.
I got really really icked out.
Those poor fucking cows. And poor fucking Mexicans. I don't know which is
worse.. eating shit in your hamburger, or eating chopped up Mexican in your
hamburger.
Bettie, I never thougth you were wrong in your views. This brought a lot
home though.
I think I would be more ready to make more of an effort now than I was
before.
But I still can't be a vegetarian.
Damn my body chemistry.
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/5/2007 at 10:53 PM |
Thinking more about it..
Those Mexicans needed those jobs. I wouldn't want to take their jobs away.
The system needs to change. The greed factor needs to go away. There is no
reason this can't be done right. It's laziness and greed that does this to
people. And the fact that Americans in shitty little jobs with a little bit
of power, like the supervisor, don't really have respect for people who
don't speak the same language they do. Those Mexicans were good,
intelligent people. They just couldn't communicate. And they were treated
like human garbage. Why in the fuck do people treat people like that? This
is something I have never been able to understand or accept. It would be so
easy to fix this situation. Slow down a bit and train people right. make
sure the procedure is right. Yeah, the cows still get killed, but it would
be humanely. And the process would be cleaner. And people would be treated
better.
These are the things that need to change.
I think the main issue is people. People are really shitty to each other
whenever they have the chance to be. For no other reason than they like
feeling like they have power over somebody else. It makes them feel better
about themselves, somehow.
This is a problem I don't see getting any better anytime in the near
future.
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 29/5/2007 at 01:03 AM |
Unfortunately it's not just a dollar or two more for some organic, free
range meats. When I first moved to Maui I bought some free range chicken at
the natural foods store. It cost 14 dollars for two chicken breasts. Just
two.
I'm really sorry. I want to help the animals, but I can't afford to. Prices
like that are just still too expensive to be buying free range, organic
meats all of the time. I'd love to though.
I don't drink milk, but when I buy regular cow milk I buy organic. When
all of it gets less expensive and more readily available I'll buy it. There
are some ranches here that have gotten together and are selling their beef
locally. I have to check on the prices, but I have seen those cows, hung
around those cows, and know one of the ranches well. They aren't calling
themselves organic, but they don't pump their cattle full of hormones and
antibiotics. The cows also don't stand in a stall all day. They run free in
wide open fields. I think that might be the best I can do if the price
isn't too much.
Sorry sweet little animals. ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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