The Gastrocast

I’m sorry if I don’t see this as wrong. It’s a bit creepy, and certainly stupid, but no less or worse than most teen’s do.

I don’t really see how ethics is involved, for one thing. Nor do I see it as particularly cruel to swallow a live, whole goldfish. Certianly not as cruel as keeping them in too small a tank and letting them die through disease, lack of food, or stagnant water, and then flushing them down the drain.
In terms of World History, modern civiliztion is the least cruel example of Humankind. So why does Peta have to stick it’s head everywhere? Isn’t it just as cruel and unethical to steal a dog and then shoot it, because its owner had it tied up and didn’t pay "enough" attention to it? Is it better to swerve a car full of passengers out of the way of a racoon to avoid hitting it, thereby risking the lives of everyone else?

If we accepted the brevity of life, would we fight so hard against it? Would we waste our time berating a school system, and two boys over a prank involving goldfish?

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Be prepared for a brain like Swiss cheese, at least if you continue to eat Beef in America, that is.

Not that the situation has been very clear or good up until now either. When you eat beef you’re eating everything that cow, steer or carcass has eaten–rodents, road-kill, tons of chemicals, OTHER COWS.

The FDA is still insisting on allowing the Cattle industry to feed rendered animal parts to cattle used for human consumption. EXCUSE ME–Cows are Fucking HERBAVORES!!!!
They will eat crap, but that doesn’t mean they should. The strict regulations the FDA WAS going to impliment seem to have fallen by the wayside.

So be prepared to give up beef altogether or risk becoming a statistic, OR source a local farmer who is raising GRASSFED Beef. Preferably someone you can visit, or drive by and see the cattle, where the slaughter takes place locally and not in some far off mass-murder, terror zone for cows.
Beef is good. Beef is great. There is no way I’m going to stop eating it–okay, so I’ve cut way back in my dotage–but, as long as I can find a source for meat where the Government hasn’t crapped all over it by not regulating things with all of their regulations; where specialty interest groups buy favor and profit instead of health and well-being, then I will still eat beef.

Grassfed beef not only taste better–or, more like beef should taste–it is less of a drain on the planet because it is not relying on the fuel intense farming of grain, and it is healthier for you: less cholesterol, more healthy elements. Now I won’t pander to you with talk of happy, well-fed cows chomping merrily away to give their lives gloriously for our dinners, but a contented cow will not be tense, not have hormons and adrenalin coursing through it’s body ruining the meat and will therefore be better in life and better as steak.

So next time Beef is for dinner, choose wisely and say no to the giant machine. Buy Local and Live better.  Our brains work better when their not turning into slush, because someone was too lazy or cheap to feed a cow something it could thrive on.

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