Are Americans addicted to self-destruction?
It is amazing to me how quickly we - as Americans - will change in certain ways but not in others. I am currently on a rampage about the state of our earth. Most of my good friends know that I like having something to do - some goal I can believe in and can work towards. But this one is, most definitely, the biggest problem I have ever encountered. To summarize what's most wrong about our country is pretty difficult. There are a long list of issues from the health care industry to the climate change crisis. But not even our current woes with failed foreign policy can outshine the importance of our national food crisis and the future of genetic engineering.
I'm normally thinking about a lot of things at once - focusing on different campaigns but my attention was captured the other day by a client who told me that we probably have only 4 years of oxygen left on planet earth due to the fact that bees are dying. Colony Collapse Disorder was first discovered in November 2006 and has since been recognized as an international crisis. Most of the nation's bee-keepers report losses of 50-90% of their colonies due to this disease which is being caused by one or many factors including GMOs, climate change and the excessive use of toxic pesticides. Bees are required to pollinate plants and approx 1 out of 3 bites of food eaten by Americans is a result of the existence of bees.
If you really think about it - we have twisted the hell out of agriculture and our environment. I feel confident saying that we have the worst food supply in the world because it is un-natural and created solely for the purpose of making profits with no inherent respect for the laws of nature. The FDA does not allow genetically modified products to be labeled - so I could go to the grocery store and buy tomatoes with genes from a human. Fast food may seem cheap but the price of it is actually incredible. Cheap hamburgers equal the decimation of the Central America's rainforest. KFC is breeding chickens without heads so they won't kill each other when being caged in a factory farm with 100 million other animals. These people don't care about life or the earth or anything except money. We are stuck with this shit and I'm sick of it.
So many people are now turning the corner - changing quickly to the stance of saying that "we're just screwed . . . there's nothing we can do." The truth is that they're wrong and we must fight for what is right because I don't want to live a post-apocalyptic hell. We all eat food . . . we all need it and we all make choices about it every day. We need to get together and do something. Make phone calls - ask restaurants and stores if they use GMO's in their food. If they can't tell you (which is what you will most likely get as an answer) then call the FDA and ask them why you're not entitled to know what's in your food. They have information experts available Monday through Friday - http://www.fda.gov/comments.html - 888-463-6332.
And as far as the future of bio-engineering I would say that's pretty scary and something we really need to consider. I'm reading a book called 'The Garden of Unearthly Delights' where Robin Mather describes animals which have been 'manufactured' that are reminiscent of Frankenstein. They've made a salmon that's 37 times it's normal size . . . and a pig that's 12 ft long and 10 ft tall. Some of these animals are severely diseased and unhealthy because they were not intended to be created and they're not being created in a conscious way - this is just unacceptable! However, I understand that this is currently how we treat every aspect of the 'earth' here in the United States. I see in the NY Times yesterday that President Bush is considering some plans for addressing climate change within 50 years. We're going to pay for our mistakes in a painful way or we're going to change and we sure don't have 50 years left to figure it out.
Molly Magdalain
I'm normally thinking about a lot of things at once - focusing on different campaigns but my attention was captured the other day by a client who told me that we probably have only 4 years of oxygen left on planet earth due to the fact that bees are dying. Colony Collapse Disorder was first discovered in November 2006 and has since been recognized as an international crisis. Most of the nation's bee-keepers report losses of 50-90% of their colonies due to this disease which is being caused by one or many factors including GMOs, climate change and the excessive use of toxic pesticides. Bees are required to pollinate plants and approx 1 out of 3 bites of food eaten by Americans is a result of the existence of bees.
If you really think about it - we have twisted the hell out of agriculture and our environment. I feel confident saying that we have the worst food supply in the world because it is un-natural and created solely for the purpose of making profits with no inherent respect for the laws of nature. The FDA does not allow genetically modified products to be labeled - so I could go to the grocery store and buy tomatoes with genes from a human. Fast food may seem cheap but the price of it is actually incredible. Cheap hamburgers equal the decimation of the Central America's rainforest. KFC is breeding chickens without heads so they won't kill each other when being caged in a factory farm with 100 million other animals. These people don't care about life or the earth or anything except money. We are stuck with this shit and I'm sick of it.
So many people are now turning the corner - changing quickly to the stance of saying that "we're just screwed . . . there's nothing we can do." The truth is that they're wrong and we must fight for what is right because I don't want to live a post-apocalyptic hell. We all eat food . . . we all need it and we all make choices about it every day. We need to get together and do something. Make phone calls - ask restaurants and stores if they use GMO's in their food. If they can't tell you (which is what you will most likely get as an answer) then call the FDA and ask them why you're not entitled to know what's in your food. They have information experts available Monday through Friday - http://www.fda.gov/comments.html - 888-463-6332.
And as far as the future of bio-engineering I would say that's pretty scary and something we really need to consider. I'm reading a book called 'The Garden of Unearthly Delights' where Robin Mather describes animals which have been 'manufactured' that are reminiscent of Frankenstein. They've made a salmon that's 37 times it's normal size . . . and a pig that's 12 ft long and 10 ft tall. Some of these animals are severely diseased and unhealthy because they were not intended to be created and they're not being created in a conscious way - this is just unacceptable! However, I understand that this is currently how we treat every aspect of the 'earth' here in the United States. I see in the NY Times yesterday that President Bush is considering some plans for addressing climate change within 50 years. We're going to pay for our mistakes in a painful way or we're going to change and we sure don't have 50 years left to figure it out.
Molly Magdalain
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