Saturday, October 4, 2008
Eat Cruelty Free
Making choices in your daily grocery list can include many things like price, quality, brand, even apperance.But was the produce or meat you have chosen produced with the utmost care involved and for the right reasons? We are in a time in this world where we need to do things for the greater good of mankind and the Earth. That includes personally and from a business standpoint. Support companies that have your better interest in mind and the betterment of the Earth. On still yet another level, the interest of animals as well. In the last blog I discussed the many aspects of agriculture. What about our friends the animals? It amazes me that compassion is not shown when it comes to the dinner table. It is a fact, like it or not that animals are not treated humanely in the majority of farms. Also most of the US’s hamburger meat comes from South America now. Wow that’s far! SA is cutting down rainforests which effect the ecosystem in the world to produce beef. There is more money in beef than is saving the ecosystem. Close to 70% of the land used for agriculture is used to raise farm animals. A large percentage of what’s left is used to feed those animals. That’s a lot of consumption. I remember when I was little not having meat all the time, it was a treat to eat a roast beef dinner on a Sunday. Now we feel compelled to eat meat with almost every meal. One of the first things a cardiologist says in treating heart patients is to cut down or cut out animal fats. If it’s not that healthy- why are we eating it all the time? I think if we all watched the movie, Slaughterhouse, we would rethink eating animals, especially when mistreated. I am not suggesting you give up meat, some of us need the protein but I am suggesting you do your research and support humanely treated animal farms. Free range can mean 5 minutes of daylight a day for an egg laying chicken-how sad. Many animals are cramped up in cages with no sun, hooked up to milkers and even worse transported in hot trucks to their ultimate destination of a slaughter house that is cruel and mean. There have been cases of employees having nervous breakdowns after such employment. Although sometimes their members can be extreme, PETA is trying to serve the greater good and help animals. You can make donations to support them or to the ASPCA to end animal factory farming and bring a new and better standard of farmlife to animals of all kinds in all regions of the world. A little help either financially or physically can do a lot of good for the animals and for you and your family. There are many websites to get more info on this topic, visit peta.org and aspca.com or watch a family friendly cartoon on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPJsfjjyZU about a proposition being presented in California to end animal farm cruelty. Lastly a note about overfishing. Please read the list below. Due to the growing population of the world, the fish population is now depleting. If we let this go, we will no longer have certain fish to catch and enjoy. Let them catch up and do not eat from this list of fish: Atlantic cod, king crab, caviar, grouper, haddock, atlantic halibut, monkfish, orange roughy, tiger prawns, farmed scottish salmon, chilean seabass, alaskan salmon, chilean sea bass, red snapper, skate, swordfish, bluefin tuna, turbot and yellowtail flounder. There are many other fish to enjoy for a while that are abundant and delicious. Also checkout gotmercury.org to see mercury content and safety precautions. Animals make the ultimate sacrifice, let’s not take that lightly. Let’s appreciate them and value the life that they have given by giving them peace and kindness here on the Earth.
