Did you know that 250,000 children die every week from starvation and disease?
Did you know that a 10% reduction in meat intake would leave enough grain to feed these children?
Did you know that meat and dairy production is the second biggest polluter on the planet, only second to cars?
Did you know animals scream and cry while they're shackeld upside down, ready to be prepared for your tastebuds?
Do you know how it feels to be electrocuted and skinned alive?
No-one gives a shit, because thinking is just too hard. Welcome to the zombie nation, where shoes and lipstick are simply more important than starving children. And tastebuds are more important than life. Never mind that we're screwing the planet, as long as I'M fine and my clothes look nice, and I have a full belly. Then everything is fine.
The endless sale of anything and everything is making our generations into selfish, apathetic people. This continuous stream of capitalist ideology is the biggest polluter - of people's minds.
It's astonishing how selfish we have become, in a society where the focus is solely on ourselves and the amount of possessions we can surround ourself with. When the truth is, happiness will never come from any of these things. While people are convinced to want needless objects, they will never be happy.
There is so much more to be concerned about than when the next issue of Heat magazine comes out. Like the fact that people die unncessarily every second - because the actions of EVERY ONE of us affect the entire planet.
So lets all get drunk and watch tv, consume this and that, then consume some more. Oh and don't forget to consume a bit more in the morning, too. No-one will notice because they're all mindless zombies too.
Just to add: The tv sets represent how everyone has adopted the materialistic and shallow values of capitalism - buy, buy buy and don't give a damn about anything else. It demonstrates how the majority of people just don't think anymore - tv does that for them!
Unfortunately this is how I see the world every day, so it makes everything petty frustrating. The only option is to DO something. And thats what I will do of course
Are you part of the ~Activists group here?
Hm, that might have actually been how I found you.
Any time is a good time to take action My boyfriend and I put energy into the anti-petco "petno" campaign (well, we flyered the hell out of the local petco, and the surrounding city), and what do you know - Petco stopped selling large birds and made a few other reforms We played a tiny tiny role, but it's still nice knowin' that someone somewhere saw our flyers and thought twice before supporting Petco.
Ehe, anyways.
Oooh, thanks for the link. I'm not a member of that group yet, but I've asked to join!
Your anti-petco actions sounded really good! Nice one! It's every little thing like that which really builds up to the bigger picture, and wears down nasty companies. Hurrah
I'm with most of what you said there. but i don't get the bit about dairy products, i mean, they could make dairy products in a lot way, but it's no-where near as bad as meat & stuff.
just a thought, but if governments of places like america and russia etc. hadn't/ weren't still spending millions of dollars on sending someone into space, or to the moon, then there'd probably be a lot less people starving.
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As you said lets get drunk ,watch tv and letīs start deep "meaningful" forum threads as... "sex, how when is the right time to do it?"
Meanwhile people die but we dont care... we are watching Sex and the city and thinking ways to be cool as the people on tv tells us to be.
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Unfortunately this is how I see the world every day, so it makes everything petty frustrating. The only option is to DO something. And thats what I will do of course
Hm, that might have actually been how I found you.
Any time is a good time to take action
Ehe, anyways.
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Your anti-petco actions sounded really good! Nice one! It's every little thing like that which really builds up to the bigger picture, and wears down nasty companies. Hurrah
ur stuff is always so meaningful - like, it always relates to some serious issue, but in a comical way.^^
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just a thought, but if governments of places like america and russia etc. hadn't/ weren't still spending millions of dollars on sending someone into space, or to the moon, then there'd probably be a lot less people starving.
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