Running backwards, full speed

One need only watch TV commercials with an open mind to see how absolutely ridiculous our culture has become. In particular ads regarding eating or rather stuffing our faces with chemical laden unhealthy fatty foods. We seem in total denial as to how much we are affected by the food industry and want to still believe we have the independence of choice, and while some of us do, namely vegetarians and vegans, for the most part our world is brainwashed.

One ad in particular irritates me to no end and that is for Swiss Chalet. An entire ensemble cast is thanking the now dead chicken for being so LOVED and ADORED all these years, hence eaten. Thanking this animal, that was horrible abused and then murdered so you could have your fattening unhealthy Swiss Chalet meal. And you are thanking it? How fucking backwards is that?

Another for a chain of Restaurants Montana’s where two animals’ mounted on the wall are envious of the fact they are not part of this great adventure of being eaten, admiring the food and servers. Double whammy. These are two mounted animals, killed for nothing more than the blood lust and pleasure of man, something men do to feel all big, strong and manly, being envious over dead animals being eaten, who were killed by huge meat factory corporations. I find this commercial sickening.

Even more disturbing is the new trend of making unhealthy food completely accessible for those too lazy to go through the normal preparation. Like bacon strips and sausages that do not need to be frozen and can just be heated in the microwave. Big hungry man TV dinners with a whopping 60 grams of fat each. We have forgotten how easy it is to prepare natural foods, and even more so how good they taste. Our taste buds are diseased along with our way of thinking about food and need to be cleansed.

Bad TV commercials aside, let us talk about the impact of our eating habits on society and our earth. Let us look at some very important facts.

One-fifth of the world's animals are born, nurtured and fed to satisfy your appetite. They live on one-third of the planet.

Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and 30% of the total land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests. Today, 70% of former Amazon rainforest is used for pastureland, and feed crops cover much of the remainder. These forests serve as "sinks," absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, and burning these forests releases all the stored carbon dioxide, quantities that exceed by far the fossil fuel emission of animal agriculture.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the real bomb lands when looking at gases besides carbon dioxide -- gases like methane and nitrous oxide, enormously effective greenhouse gases with 23 and 296 times the warming power of carbon dioxide, respectively. If carbon dioxide is responsible for about one-half of human-related greenhouse gas warming since the industrial revolution, methane and nitrous oxide are responsible for another one-third. These super-strong gases come primarily from farmed animals' digestive processes, and from their manure. In fact, while animal agriculture accounts for 9% of our carbon dioxide emissions, it emits 37% of our methane, and a whopping 65% of our nitrous oxide.
“Oh come on, it’s just a little chicken”, you are saying. How can an animal, so seemingly insignificant against the vastness of the earth, give off so much greenhouse gas as to change the global climate? The answer is in their sheer numbers. T, all to sustain a meat-ravenous culture that can barely recall the day when eating meat once a week was a luxury. Land animals raised for food make up a staggering 20% of the entire land animal biomass of the earth. We are eating our planet to death. What we're seeing is just the beginning, too. Meat consumption has increased five-fold in the past fifty years, and is expected to double again in the next fifty.

And what about religion which is apparent taboo to discuss or refute? Have you noticed that no new evidence or theories are allowed to be introduced to collaborate or enhance nothing more than an urban tale. Some apparent Jesus tomb that was discovered in the 1980’s contains DNA that could be that of the man Jesus, his wife and a son. The Church will only say this, “Every Christian knows that Jesus, the son of God and man, died and rose again on Easter Sunday.” Ya ok….right after the Easter Bunny delivers his chocolate eggs.

Look around and be careful, all the back peddling may knock you over.