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Thursday, April 22, 2010
sighness
Food Inc was on PBS tonight, it's the first time I've seen it. Like Pollan's books, this stuff makes me so mad. As Nombly would have said: Meh meh meh! I'm not out for genetically modified foods in and of themselves, but it's the patenting, and bullying of those who don't have to use it, and the monoculture that results, etc etc that makes me mad mad mad.
Now they're showing a short piece about a dairy farmer who lets his cows just eat grass, they keep their calves, and they're only milked in season (cows aren't meant to produce milk in the winter--which of course is very logical when you think about it. They have babies in the spring!) Seeing these cows wandering around green grass, hangin' out, just being cows... it's so beautiful.
As I've said before, I don't think consuming dairy or meat is inherently wrong either, it can be an interdependent relationship--after all, you're taking care of these animals, feeding them, allowing them to breed, and ensuring the survival of their genes. It can be a durned good deal for animals to interact with humans. But treat them like animals, and not like frikkin' ... chairs.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched it. These things help to keep me on the straightish and narrowish.
Now they're showing a short piece about a dairy farmer who lets his cows just eat grass, they keep their calves, and they're only milked in season (cows aren't meant to produce milk in the winter--which of course is very logical when you think about it. They have babies in the spring!) Seeing these cows wandering around green grass, hangin' out, just being cows... it's so beautiful.
As I've said before, I don't think consuming dairy or meat is inherently wrong either, it can be an interdependent relationship--after all, you're taking care of these animals, feeding them, allowing them to breed, and ensuring the survival of their genes. It can be a durned good deal for animals to interact with humans. But treat them like animals, and not like frikkin' ... chairs.
Anyway, I'm glad I watched it. These things help to keep me on the straightish and narrowish.
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