by patio34 14 Replies latest social current
http://www.themeatrix.com/
You've got to watch this - about the big agri-corporations and the food you eat. Turn up the volume; you won't want to miss any of the VERY CREATIVE and FACTUAL cartoon docu-drama.
Take good care and treat your body well !!!
Wow I saw a pig flying! I want the blue pill! Scary $#!+ !!
Thanks Patio for the link I've bookmarked it and will check out the local family farms for my area soon! Good info and you are right it's something I won't regret knowing about.
Kate
if yu like that, try reading a book called "Fast Food Nation"...
you will never eat at a Mcdonalds, Burger King or Taco Bell again
Yeah, I live in farm country, and have been to many operations and slaughterhouses, so I'm familiar with what the cartoon says- It's all true.
Your alternatives are to go with organically raised products (very pricey) and/or raise the meat and produce yourself.(I do some of each).
In the big picture, it's a shame, but if these practices were stopped, it would result in much higher prices. My gut feel is that most people would not deal well with that, and that is why these practices will remain.
Bottom line is that there are lots of nasty, unhealthy, dangerous things out there, and it's up to each of us to "pick our poison".
Cheers.
thanks for sharing this--I am going to pass it around
cool link
patio34
awesome - I will be passing this on to some pals.
A personal note re the antibiotics - since I was quite young, eggs have made me sick. One of my friends suggested trying free-range eggs - no antibiotics (as I'm allergic to most due to over-medication as a child, but that's another story).
THEY DON'T MAKE ME SICK!!! I can now have eggs whenever I want. And it makes sense, all the drugs in the feed, the egg is a concentration of life, the 'seed' so to speak, filled with antibiotics and who knows what other chemicals?
L_T
organically raised products (very pricey)
that's really unfortunate - actually, I can buy CHEAPER at the local weekly Farmer's Market than at the supermarket.
We priced a 1/4 of beef 2 weeks ago - it will cost $2 less per pound than it costs at the large chain-store supermarkets here - and from a reputable, certified organic local farm! A few cents/lb. cheaper if you buy 1/2. Pork is even cheaper. Of course, it's about 100 lbs, HOWEVER, several of us are going to split it, so it all works out to about $75 per person for, in my case, at least 6 mos of meat.
Also, I get my eggs from the Mennonite folk - 50 cents per dozen cheaper. They also sell gluten-free bread for $3 per loaf as opposed to $6 at the grocery store (as well as apples, fresh tomatoes in season, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it).
Veggies are lower-priced as well. However, it means eating mainly seasonal vegetables, which is rather tiresome at this time of year (mostly squash, shrooms, root veggies and greens are available).
Usually, the US has better shopping prices, but in the case of local organics, I guess we are lucky here in Eastern Canada.
Doncha love organic chicken - yummmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
(no offense to the vegans lol)
tal
Wow--I'm glad you liked it.
Kate, it's nice to hear from you
Franklin, thanks for the recommendation but fortunately, I'm mostly vegetarian (except for dairy & eggs and occasionally eating out a bit of meat) so don't eat at fast food places. I did read Diet for a New America by John Robbins and felt very enlightened.
Love_Truth, It's usually as you say in the amount of difficulty, but I shop at Trader Joe's and get free-range eggs at about the same price. Plus, we have a farmer's market in town every Saturday.
((Cyber-Sista))) I'm glad you're passing it around.
Talesin, wow, lots of good ideas. Glad about the eggs. I'm in California and organic and farm stuff isn't hard to get here, kind of like Canada maybe.
ANOTHER great thing about Simon's Coffee House is that you can share important information like this. And of course the internet is maybe the single most important way of sharing info!!
Love to all!
Pat
Pat
Actually, emphasize the 'Eastern' Canada - lots of resistance to factory farms, etc. here, moreso than Quebec through to the west coast. Too durn many of them peacenik, tree-huggin, hippy freaks here, I guess (heheheh, I likes it that way!) Been to SoCal, loved it, btw, 'cept for the freeways.
tal
I wonder if the people who live around the Watchtower Farm can buy eggs and bread and craft products from the enlightened paradise-bound agrarian "culture" of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society.
As has been demonstrated by Gary Brusselman time and time again, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society is a publishing and real-estate empire. The Farm is simply a way to further reduce the overhead (in this case, cost of meals for the staff) of the corporation. It is not part of Watchtower culture the way that farming is part of the Mennonite, Amish, and even "hippie-co-op" ways of life. The WTS is about a bunch of anal-retentive control freaks providing for their own comfort and security in their old age.
That this is done by parasitically sucking the productive life out of young, ill-informed and ignorant young people is especially reprehensible, but the WTS isn't the first cult to practice this, and they will not be the last.
