Start Caring

I am tired of people not caring. I started this blog to save my facebook friends from all the horrible things I know about food and NEED to share. But I am just angry that I even have to do that. We are all affected. There is so much wrong with our system and no one is willing to change it.

For example, our mass production of animals has caused there to be more fecal matter than we know what to do with. This fecal matter causes run off into water systems, destroying estuaries, and creating dead zones. At the same time, food producers are using non-natural fertilizers for their crops (made from petroleum). Why don't we just use the excess fecal matter as fertilizer? Because fecal matter isn't a special interest group like petroleum is.

Those in charge of the food system are controlled by greed and an unwillingness to change. While us consumers are obsessed with cheap food. How much does that cheap food really cost? A LOT. There are so many external costs it isn't funny. At the rate we are going, in fifty years the entire ocean will be dead. It is horrific. And everyone wants to close their eyes about it. Or make fun of the vegetarian. And it's just like. It goes BEYOND meat.

In addition to these troubling things, check out the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They are great people doing great things. But it is just another aspect of food production we choose to ignore.

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