Since when did efficiency become more important than morality? Jesus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedlot

I just don't understand how we got this way. I mean, i'm all for efficiency and food production, and god knows i could never be a vegetarian, but the fact that most of these animals are raised being fed unhealthy grain to begin with? And i don't really know much about this anyway, and i know we should eat animals and i know i know i know, i just find something so wrong with this. just like i don't really like genetic engineering. I like the idea of the golden rice, but i just don't think it's right for us to decide to create what we eat. things grow on this earth, shouldn't that be enough for us? there are so many creatures on this earth. we are one of many many many. and we shouldn't be able to get rid of so many other creatures just to save ourselves. and i'm a hypocrite, god knows, and i eat so much meat that is probably from those cows and chickens from above. and i support corporation just as much as anyone else. i just hate money and greed and hunger and injustice and racism and everything that is so wrong with the world. And i wish that i could have been raised on a self-sustained farm somewhere out of this country out of this world. Because humans disgust me, yet i am one. we just have this need to satisfy ourselves. and we don't care about the consequences. and god i just don't know what to say i just know that i want to see some good, somewhere. there is so much that could be done, and all most americans do is tsk tsk and shake their heads and feel a tug on their heartstrings, thinking about how they can't do anything. we should do something. we need to. we need to get rid of the greed, we need to actually do something to help ourselves. and i'm so hypocritical. but i'm trying not to be. and i just don't know. we need change. but its already too late. theres nothing we can do. because the image that is out there is false. i just hate people. i hate greedy corporations and helpful corporations and convenience, and i wish we could all go back to the stone age, when the human impact was minimal and wasn't destroying the universe. and environmental checks actually worked, and we knew enough about the environment to trust each other and tolerate it. GOD HELP US ALL BECAUSE WE CERTAINLY ARE HELPING OURSELVES.

i have a theory

what if we aren't the first?

we aren't God's first creations. he's created other planets, other universes, with all of the same resources, just to see how we use them. He put us here, with an earth that produces natural life with natural cycles and natural controls. He presents chemicals, substances that can be used, in a limited amount, to make our lives easier. he sees us time and time again take advantage of these resources, thinking not about our long term future, but instead of our immediate future. Our selfish wants and needs overpower the needs of the universe around us. So what if we expel toxins that destroy our ozone, no problem if we create carcinogens that wipe us out.

and eventually, like always, we destroy ourselves. we kill off our animals. we overuse our natural resources. we destroy life and its natural processes, just to suit our selfish wants. and each time, God wonders if this next one will be different. He wonders whether or not this universe will finally succeed and make itself sustainable.

because you can't just introduce some intelligence to some creatures. he wants to. somehow he wants to expel the exact right force of energy and knowledge into creatures that makes them know enough to figure out how to be sustainable, but not enough to not need him anymore. he introduces limiting factors, and we find ways around some of them, but causing our own demise.

it's such a vicious cycle that we don't even know how to turn around and recognize it.

and each time, the earth is destroyed.

STORY TIME FOR THIS ONE YES MA'AM AND SIR.