I
heard an interview recently ...it was a debate between George Monbiot
and a representative of the National Farmers Union. Monbiot pointed out
that it was farming interests that had campaigned for the dredging of
rivers, the straitening of the direction of the river and the use of
hillsides for the grazing of animals to provide animals for the meat
industry.
Hillsides
that grow vegetation and trees hold water and limit flooding, when we
straighten rivers and dredge them water fro floods floes easily and
directly into the towns, it overcomes flood defences and kills people.
The NFU representative was in a different world his interests were
financial and the demand for cheap meat. He had no comprehension of what
Monbiot was talking about...his paradigm was of money and meat and the
demands of government.
.
The NFU does not understand the joined up thinking. that has not
extensively flooded has not been dredged or straitened How odd that the
NFU should not mention this. Then I heard the story of a farmer
celebrating that his cows had survived the floods. They had swum or had
wandered some 25 miles and had been found on a golf course. He said that
his family was now recovering from the devastation of losing the herd,
that they were glad the herd had survived. But I ask the question what
now for that herd, saved from the flood but destined for slaughter in
the industrialised meat industry.
We
are sacrificing people because of our obsession with the meat industry,
we destroy the environment to feed it literally and metaphorically. If
we ate less meat, maintained our flood defences and allowed the natural
resistance to floods to act we would not be seeing what is happening i. A
typical Bacon , lettuce and Tomato roll has had the bacon, tomato and
lettuce that is combined within it experience an average journey of
20,000 miles.
.
I am an angry man today........ Its no accident that when the Nazi
party was designing the concentration camps they built a model which
resembled the slaughter houses of the USA And now every part of an
animal is used within and by the industrial complex In 1914 the American
Socialist Upton Sinclair wrote a book called “The Jungle” it was an
expose of both the meat industry and of industrial capitalism. The Meat
industry tried to suppress it but failed..and that was 100 years
ago...what does it take to wake us all up. To realise we cannot maintain
this fragile Earth if we keep eating meat in this way, we cannot see
animals merely as things to eat and use and exploit. Isaac Bashevis
Singer gives us a stark warning
“ When
you say they are only animals, you open the doors to the gas chambers. “
He went on provocatively “In their behaviour toward creatures, all men
are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims.
Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.”
I
heard an interview recently ...it was a debate between George Monbiot
and a representative of the National Farmers Union. Monbiot pointed out
that it was farming interests that had campaigned for the dredging of
rivers, the straitening of the direction of the river and the use of
hillsides for the grazing of animals to provide animals for the meat
industry.
Hillsides
that grow vegetation and trees hold water and limit flooding, when we
straighten rivers and dredge them water fro floods floes easily and
directly into the towns, it overcomes flood defences and kills people.
The NFU representative was in a different world his interests were
financial and the demand for cheap meat. He had no comprehension of what
Monbiot was talking about...his paradigm was of money and meat and the
demands of government.
.
The NFU does not understand the joined up thinking. that has not
extensively flooded has not been dredged or straitened How odd that the
NFU should not mention this. Then I heard the story of a farmer
celebrating that his cows had survived the floods. They had swum or had
wandered some 25 miles and had been found on a golf course. He said that
his family was now recovering from the devastation of losing the herd,
that they were glad the herd had survived. But I ask the question what
now for that herd, saved from the flood but destined for slaughter in
the industrialised meat industry.
Let
us bring in an East European workforce to maintain the rivers, they
dont need paying or housing they build dams and create their own
dwellings. Who are they you may ask. They are the beavers from Eastern
Europe..but I do not suppose Ian Duncan Smith will have much to say to
this.
We
are sacrificing people because of our obsession with the meat industry,
we destroy the environment to feed it literally and metaphorically. If
we ate less meat, maintained our flood defences and allowed the natural
resistance to floods to act we would not be seeing what is happening i. A
typical Bacon , lettuce and Tomato roll has had the bacon, tomato and
lettuce that is combined within it experience an average journey of
20,000 miles.
.
I am an angry man today........ Its no accident that when the Nazi
party was designing the concentration camps they built a model which
resembled the slaughter houses of the USA And now every part of an
animal is used within and by the industrial complex In 1914 the American
Socialist Upton Sinclair wrote a book called “The Jungle” it was an
expose of both the meat industry and of industrial capitalism. The Meat
industry tried to suppress it but failed..and that was 100 years
ago...what does it take to wake us all up. To realise we cannot maintain
this fragile Earth if we keep eating meat in this way, we cannot see
animals merely as things to eat and use and exploit. Isaac Bashevis
Singer gives us a stark warning
“ When
you say they are only animals, you open the doors to the gas chambers. “
He went on provocatively “In their behaviour toward creatures, all men
are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims.
Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.”
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