Appealing to Your Common Senses

I wonder about this new rage to take care of the earth.
The motives behind it all are what’s got me down. It’s upsetting to me that everybody had to be scared out of their minds with impending doom (Al Gore, I’m talking to you!) before they decided that having a dependency on oil, pesticides and cheap products that were made in sweatshops from far away countries might not such a good idea.I’m not very afraid of the climate changing, and I know it will, but our planet is old and it’s dealt with a lot. I also know that the people who do nothing to change our current bad habits also feel this way. They have a point and it’s hard to argue with.
So I want to explain my argument for living a more sustainable life.
The rise of the industrial and technological revolutions were one giant attempt to live more efficiently, with more productivity. Those things are great. Living efficiently is something to admire. Waste not, want not right? But I think all these years we’ve been a bit mislead with what efficiency really is.
Forcing a cow, who naturally gets its nutrients from grass -a plant that created nutrients from sunlight (how much more efficient can you get?) to feed on corn (a very unnatural food for a cow) that must be transported from miles away and use up more gasoline (corn which farmers actually lose money on and only continue to grow more of because of government subsidies). This unnatural feed causes the cows to become weakened and ill, forcing ranchers to use loads of antibiotics and growth hormones to get the cows to live long enough to make it to slaughter (which by the way, isn’t very long anymore) or well enough to produce unnatural amounts of milk.
Feeding cows corn is slowly acidifying their naturally alkaline stomach fluids which is helping e.coli that lives there to become more acid resistant. SO… when you eat beef, along with the acid resistant e.coli, your stomach acids no longer can protect you from infection. See what happens when you mess with Mother Nature? She screws you over.
Ultimately, this system seems highly inefficient to me and against the whole point of the industrial and technological revolutions. These were just a few tiny examples in our huge wasteful industrial food system.
So if you don’t like the idea of hippies and world peace or you don’t care to hug a tree, I hope I’ve at least appealed to your common senses and convinced you that operating in a more natural (non-industrial system) is a much more efficient and reasonable way to live your life.
Happy Earth Day.











