The Insanity of it All
April 24th 2011 13:33
We live in a world with many unanswered questions and very few people in leadership positions that have the courage to provide them.
Questions about the state of affairs in a world that is plagued with the scars of violence, age old battles of discrimination over differences in race, gender, sexual orientation and political ideology along with the scope of what some would like to call progress that has become nothing more than a merry go round spinning in circles.
A merry go round that has reduced the world public to a set of routines in their daily lives that include the facade of labels.
Labels that join people of every nation together under the tattered banners of patriotism, nationality, sexual orientation, political party, race, gender or religious solidarity in the belief that danger is not lurking under their noses.
The danger that comes from the daily injection of comfort and convenience from technology and the soothing nature of a media that is willing to herd the people into believing the cogs in the machine are mere abnormalities as opposed to the typical status quo.
The status quo of a meat industry that is feeding the public a product stuffed with steroids, hormones and antibiotics injected into animals that are forced to live in filth.
For these comforts the public is given the false belief that there is nothing wrong with the food we eat and the water we drink so long as we follow a set of rules that have been built over time to adjust the masses to a dangerous game.
A dangerous game of allowing the industry to set the rules over the course of multiple decades and forcing the public to change their habits in order to protect their own safety….
A game that is not unique to the meat industry as we have witnessed the cozy relationship between government, lobbyists and special interests take over many other aspects of our lives.
Lives that were forever changed in the United States of America by votes in Congress and signatures by Presidents in the Oval Office all in the name of corporations that generously financed political campaigns and pumped millions of dollars into the agendas of the big two political parties.
What’s happening in the United States of America and around the rest of the world with the food we eat is un-natural and very dangerous for the future survival of our species.
A survival that was once dependant on the hard work of farmers who took extra special care of crops and livestock has been handed over to multi-billion dollar corporations that have made shortcuts the industry standard with the dangerous effects appearing every time there is an e-coli or salmonella outbreak.
For their continued work to make bio-engineered food the standard, to continue assuring the public of the safety that comes from steroids, hormones, high fructose corn syrup and antibiotics while also making life harder on farmers and food providers doing the right thing; what the public is left with is a set of dwindling choices.
Dwindling choices that will fuel the power that pushes the merry go round already responsible for the rapid rise of new strains of influenza from the effects of overcrowding of livestock, strains of drug resistant bacteria as millions and millions of pounds of speedily processed meat filled with gastro-intestinal bacteria is exposed to the abundant sources of antibacterial products in homes and restaurants across the world and the idea of Organic continues to lose its meaning as money becomes the objective of a movement that was once an alternative but has slowly become part of the industry standard.
When we take a hard look at the problems in our society there has to be a point where a line is drawn between issues that are nothing more than partisan ranker and the things that dig to the heart of how we live our daily lives.
Daily lives where some people do not and will never have the luxury of paying the extra money for food given an extra seal of approval from a government agency that has proven to be uncomfortably cozy with the industry they are supposed to be regulating.
As long as men, women and children are going to bed hungry in the world regulation of a food industry run by multi-billion dollar corporations with their hands in government functions will always be a tough proposition to sell.
The original idea behind the modern food industry came from the vision of hunger and despair across the United States and the world with the expressed goal of creating avenues for affordable and accessible food.
A simple idea has run amok because the people have become too comfortable with accessibility as a few reports of salmonella and e-coli outbreaks became thousands along with reports of abuses to animals and systems of overcrowding that have bred disease while simple farms became systems of farms and ultimately corporations that put themselves in positions where they feel that they don’t have to answer to anybody.
The time to ask the questions and demand answers from our government officials is now.
The world is still witnessing the devastation of the swine flu that began on overcrowded pig farms across the world when poor conditions mixed with the avian bird flu from overcrowded poultry farms and seasonal flu from human handlers became a pandemic.
If we are to take a serious look at this issue we must look no further to than the onslaught of Cancer related diseases that has swept across the globe related to the meat industries practice of injecting steroids and other chemicals into livestock, the blatantly obvious change in the age teenagers are reaching puberty related to the presence of hormones in the meat we feed our children and the rise of drug resistant strains of influenza and bacteria that can be directly related to a resistance to the antibiotics that are already in our bodies from livestock that are treated to combat the effects of overcrowding.
While it may be easy to call for the public to run to their respective corners of their province, county or state in a public offensive to buy local it would be a much more effective measure to call on the people of the world to stop burying their heads in the sand.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense in their heads knows that we have a serious problem that is only going to get worse so long as we continue to feed a broken system.
This is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue nor is it an American, Russian, Australian, Asian or African Issue.
This is a World Issue.
Much like the way we understand the things done to the environment will eventually affect us all we must also understand that the things done to our food supply and water will eventually affect us all in the onslaught of new diseases and our ability to survive as a species.
The actions of our government bodies in deciding whether or not to build some practical regulations will only be instituted when the people demand it.
The time to demand a future for the next generation is now.
A future that includes the ability to give the gift of choice to men, women and children that are not being given any option but to suffer in a system set up for failure.
Questions about the state of affairs in a world that is plagued with the scars of violence, age old battles of discrimination over differences in race, gender, sexual orientation and political ideology along with the scope of what some would like to call progress that has become nothing more than a merry go round spinning in circles.
A merry go round that has reduced the world public to a set of routines in their daily lives that include the facade of labels.
Labels that join people of every nation together under the tattered banners of patriotism, nationality, sexual orientation, political party, race, gender or religious solidarity in the belief that danger is not lurking under their noses.
The danger that comes from the daily injection of comfort and convenience from technology and the soothing nature of a media that is willing to herd the people into believing the cogs in the machine are mere abnormalities as opposed to the typical status quo.
The status quo of a meat industry that is feeding the public a product stuffed with steroids, hormones and antibiotics injected into animals that are forced to live in filth.
For these comforts the public is given the false belief that there is nothing wrong with the food we eat and the water we drink so long as we follow a set of rules that have been built over time to adjust the masses to a dangerous game.
A dangerous game of allowing the industry to set the rules over the course of multiple decades and forcing the public to change their habits in order to protect their own safety….
A game that is not unique to the meat industry as we have witnessed the cozy relationship between government, lobbyists and special interests take over many other aspects of our lives.
Lives that were forever changed in the United States of America by votes in Congress and signatures by Presidents in the Oval Office all in the name of corporations that generously financed political campaigns and pumped millions of dollars into the agendas of the big two political parties.
What’s happening in the United States of America and around the rest of the world with the food we eat is un-natural and very dangerous for the future survival of our species.
A survival that was once dependant on the hard work of farmers who took extra special care of crops and livestock has been handed over to multi-billion dollar corporations that have made shortcuts the industry standard with the dangerous effects appearing every time there is an e-coli or salmonella outbreak.
For their continued work to make bio-engineered food the standard, to continue assuring the public of the safety that comes from steroids, hormones, high fructose corn syrup and antibiotics while also making life harder on farmers and food providers doing the right thing; what the public is left with is a set of dwindling choices.
Dwindling choices that will fuel the power that pushes the merry go round already responsible for the rapid rise of new strains of influenza from the effects of overcrowding of livestock, strains of drug resistant bacteria as millions and millions of pounds of speedily processed meat filled with gastro-intestinal bacteria is exposed to the abundant sources of antibacterial products in homes and restaurants across the world and the idea of Organic continues to lose its meaning as money becomes the objective of a movement that was once an alternative but has slowly become part of the industry standard.
When we take a hard look at the problems in our society there has to be a point where a line is drawn between issues that are nothing more than partisan ranker and the things that dig to the heart of how we live our daily lives.
Daily lives where some people do not and will never have the luxury of paying the extra money for food given an extra seal of approval from a government agency that has proven to be uncomfortably cozy with the industry they are supposed to be regulating.
As long as men, women and children are going to bed hungry in the world regulation of a food industry run by multi-billion dollar corporations with their hands in government functions will always be a tough proposition to sell.
The original idea behind the modern food industry came from the vision of hunger and despair across the United States and the world with the expressed goal of creating avenues for affordable and accessible food.
A simple idea has run amok because the people have become too comfortable with accessibility as a few reports of salmonella and e-coli outbreaks became thousands along with reports of abuses to animals and systems of overcrowding that have bred disease while simple farms became systems of farms and ultimately corporations that put themselves in positions where they feel that they don’t have to answer to anybody.
The time to ask the questions and demand answers from our government officials is now.
The world is still witnessing the devastation of the swine flu that began on overcrowded pig farms across the world when poor conditions mixed with the avian bird flu from overcrowded poultry farms and seasonal flu from human handlers became a pandemic.
If we are to take a serious look at this issue we must look no further to than the onslaught of Cancer related diseases that has swept across the globe related to the meat industries practice of injecting steroids and other chemicals into livestock, the blatantly obvious change in the age teenagers are reaching puberty related to the presence of hormones in the meat we feed our children and the rise of drug resistant strains of influenza and bacteria that can be directly related to a resistance to the antibiotics that are already in our bodies from livestock that are treated to combat the effects of overcrowding.
While it may be easy to call for the public to run to their respective corners of their province, county or state in a public offensive to buy local it would be a much more effective measure to call on the people of the world to stop burying their heads in the sand.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense in their heads knows that we have a serious problem that is only going to get worse so long as we continue to feed a broken system.
This is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue nor is it an American, Russian, Australian, Asian or African Issue.
This is a World Issue.
Much like the way we understand the things done to the environment will eventually affect us all we must also understand that the things done to our food supply and water will eventually affect us all in the onslaught of new diseases and our ability to survive as a species.
The actions of our government bodies in deciding whether or not to build some practical regulations will only be instituted when the people demand it.
The time to demand a future for the next generation is now.
A future that includes the ability to give the gift of choice to men, women and children that are not being given any option but to suffer in a system set up for failure.
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