Doc Com

I didn't start writing this until after I had already watched the first documentary. It was great.

Catch the trailer here: Freakonomics

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Now I am starting the documentary Cowspiracy (comments to follow). Following the environmental catastrophe that is our modern food system.

There is a part of me that wants to be vegetarian. I should just do it. At least because of the state of the planet, and because I call myself an animal lover and advocate yet I still eat meat. Jesus 2,500 lbs of water are used to produce 1 lb of beef. Even cutting your meat intake in half would be a huge impact on the global environment.

Honestly, I have less to say than I thought. The documentary was great and brought up some really interesting points. I'm going to try and eat far less meat and dairy. Looking to cut my boyfriend to half his consumption and I think I can pretty much just give up milk and lets be honest, that would be better for me anyway. I don't need milk. I can get better calcium from spinach or kale. The hardest part will be not giving into temptation and still doing what I want to do for me regardless of if my boyfriend is personally resistant to giving up meat and especially dairy (he loves milk).

It just comes down to numbers for me. I care a lot for animals and the environment and I want children of the future to have a world to enjoy like I have had so far in my life, but if it's all destroyed by the time I'm 60, then what have I left the future? If I became vegan right now then I have the ability to decrease my carbon footprint by:

1100 gallons of water
45 pounds of grain
30 square feet of forest
10 pounds of CO2
1 animals life

EVERY SINGLE DAY. that's 365 animals a year and probably more in reality because we waste so much, especially here in America. How can I ignore that? It wont be a cold turkey process but starting this moment, I am going to try and consume less meat and dairy as a whole. Definitely at work this is doable because I eat a lot of cheese and eggs, but we have lots of veggies on hand, even avocado so I don't have to go far for options. If most people kept an open eye and mind they might find they don't have to make too big of changes to eat less meat either.


Things to think about.

Mav

Free Form

So when i say birthdays are made up and you scoff and roll your eyes, think about this: we as a species, a humanity, choose to view our years cyclically with numbers and dates, calculated. We repeat the same months and days and hours. What if we just counted up? What if we didn't keep track at all? Then there would be no "birthdays" and there would be no celebration of that birth accept when you were actually born. All the world is a perception. We get confused with history and technology. We forget that history is written by the victorious, so large swaths of information go undocumented. We feel like what is has always been. Things like electricity and the telephone. We cant see the forest for the trees and forget how much these things and things like it have dramatically shaped our mindset. The call this the "Information Age" and we thrive off these statistics. We use them to compare ourselves most of all in attempts to push "ahead" but to what I'm not sure. We just race like we know the goal. Why not take it slow? There is nothing technically saying that we can't but most people would not believe we could and that is exactly what keeps us from it. There are no rules that say it must be survival of the fittest where if suddenly all became benevolent that another authority would swoop down and punish us. This is just what the vast majority of the populatiom believes. We create our reality though, and i dont mean in the "positivity brings happiness" type of bullshit but literally if no one went to work tomorrow and just for no reason decided, "Nah, ill just stay home..." The buildings arent going to come looking for us to keep running them. The toys and cars wont come begging to be produced. We create all that need for those things by believing them to be important.  So just keep your mind open. Look for new points of view. Because they are usually pretty interesting.

Mav