Here's the link:
http://fora.tv/2010/09/21/Eating_Animals_Jonathan_Safran_Foer#chapter_08
I like when he says that all parents make a choice. Meat eating parents are choosing to lie to their children about what meat is and where it comes from. Sounds radical, but he's pretty common sensical.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Seafood and oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Should there be health advisories about eating seafood in the U.S. due to the BP Gulf oil spill/disaster? If 30% of American seafood comes from the Gulf of Mexico, how much of that is contaminated by this spill? Even if not directly, once oil enters the food chain and the global industrial supply chain, it could show up anywhere, right? Is that too alarmist? Or six months from now will there be a "suprising" epidemic linked to people who ate contaminated seafood? Maybe we should stop eating seafood (I'll miss you sushi and lox).
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Homeland Security means Eating Less Meat
What kills more Americans: terrorism, or hamburgers?
According to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, heart disease killed 654,092 Americans in 2004.
Terrorism deaths (victims of 9/11, plus Americans put in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan) have not yet reached 10,000 Americans (though if you count Iraqi civilians and others, then you're in the ballpark). If 1,792 Americans die every day of heart disease, then every 3 days, there is another 9/11 in this country. What do you think of that, Rudy Giuliani?
We are spending $500 billion per year on militaristic death machines.
How much are we spending to prevent the cause of the highest number of American deaths?
Therefore, my fellow Americans, I propose that we shift all the money from the Department of Homeland Security (or just change their programs to better fulfill their mission of protecting Americans from what is killing them) to screen American travellers at the airport for heart disease.
When you put your luggage through the x-ray machine, you will also answer a few questions from a Homeland Security Nurse about your diet and lifestyle. If you eat several Big Macs per week, you might be taken into a special screening room where you have to watch a 2 minute video about fast food, heart disease, obesity, etc.
There will be scary brochures, posters and annoying recordings over the loud speaker about how to live a healthier lifestyle to prevent heart disease. The threat level will be orange.
C'mon, let's follow the numbers and spend the money where we can save the greatest number of Americans.
I know, someone reading this might say, "But those are apples and oranges." Homeland Security was created to fight the terrorists, not provide health care. And people want to feel safe at the airport.
But, I respond, Homeland Security is actually just Homeland Paranoia, and they haven't done anything to make us actually safer. They were created to give lots of government pork subsidies to private security and aerospace companies (bringing the war and bacon home), creating a Cold War here in the U.S. against an invisible enemy to boost corporate, Republican contributor profits. Also they are there to create a police state infrastructure to suppress dissent against the war, or against government economic policies which benefit the few and hurt the many. Fearful citizens are less likely to speak out, demonstrate, or criticize.
But, someone might say, they have been successful because there weren't any more attacks after 9/11.
Well, I respond, let's do a test scenario, and spend all the money on current Homeland Security in some states, and change the money to my idea with heart disease and lifestyle in other states, and see which ones have more terrorist attacks, and which ones save more American lives. (my friend says, fine, but he wants to live in the states where it is the current system. this is just a question of whether you think screening grandmas makes you feel safer. it is psychological, but not empirically proven, security).
An Election Year's coming up, who is going to propose change Homeland Security to Eating Less Meat?
According to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, heart disease killed 654,092 Americans in 2004.
Terrorism deaths (victims of 9/11, plus Americans put in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan) have not yet reached 10,000 Americans (though if you count Iraqi civilians and others, then you're in the ballpark). If 1,792 Americans die every day of heart disease, then every 3 days, there is another 9/11 in this country. What do you think of that, Rudy Giuliani?
We are spending $500 billion per year on militaristic death machines.
How much are we spending to prevent the cause of the highest number of American deaths?
Therefore, my fellow Americans, I propose that we shift all the money from the Department of Homeland Security (or just change their programs to better fulfill their mission of protecting Americans from what is killing them) to screen American travellers at the airport for heart disease.
When you put your luggage through the x-ray machine, you will also answer a few questions from a Homeland Security Nurse about your diet and lifestyle. If you eat several Big Macs per week, you might be taken into a special screening room where you have to watch a 2 minute video about fast food, heart disease, obesity, etc.
There will be scary brochures, posters and annoying recordings over the loud speaker about how to live a healthier lifestyle to prevent heart disease. The threat level will be orange.
C'mon, let's follow the numbers and spend the money where we can save the greatest number of Americans.
I know, someone reading this might say, "But those are apples and oranges." Homeland Security was created to fight the terrorists, not provide health care. And people want to feel safe at the airport.
But, I respond, Homeland Security is actually just Homeland Paranoia, and they haven't done anything to make us actually safer. They were created to give lots of government pork subsidies to private security and aerospace companies (bringing the war and bacon home), creating a Cold War here in the U.S. against an invisible enemy to boost corporate, Republican contributor profits. Also they are there to create a police state infrastructure to suppress dissent against the war, or against government economic policies which benefit the few and hurt the many. Fearful citizens are less likely to speak out, demonstrate, or criticize.
But, someone might say, they have been successful because there weren't any more attacks after 9/11.
Well, I respond, let's do a test scenario, and spend all the money on current Homeland Security in some states, and change the money to my idea with heart disease and lifestyle in other states, and see which ones have more terrorist attacks, and which ones save more American lives. (my friend says, fine, but he wants to live in the states where it is the current system. this is just a question of whether you think screening grandmas makes you feel safer. it is psychological, but not empirically proven, security).
An Election Year's coming up, who is going to propose change Homeland Security to Eating Less Meat?
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