Depressing, like many of the industrialized mass processes that are rampant these days. Meat processing has ruined my appetite for the stuff, too. (I don't have a problem with meat Bob, just the abuse of nature that corporate force has created).
Then, like so many of these, the mess gets forced down onto the powerless in the third world. They starve and wallow in the morass of destruction and exploitation.
My guilt is tempered by my lack of participation. I make most of my footwear, or go without, minus the fivetoes for hiking. I wear clothing only when a have to and adjust my life toward that goal. I do buy new clothing, but treat it well and it lasts for several years. I don't follow fashion trends, but express myself in my choices. I have fun with it.
The meat thing? I don't eat the processed stuff, or any process food that I can. My kitchen waste can takes weeks to fill. We compost. I need fish, so I eat sushi, which does hurt Ma Earth, but then, A guys gotta eat and be healthy.
I thought that I had escaped the problems, and read no news for three weeks in the mountains. Then, the cattle came by and destroyed the spring of wild water, polluting it. The bank to the creek, which goes to the lake dam, was stomped, flooding the fields where I hike, a special place where ten thousand people prayed for peace and Mother Earth 25 years ago. The fishing lake is covered and mostly no longer navigable because of all of the nitrogen from the cattle up stream clogging things up and downstream, where the overflow is supposed to follow the natural course, it is starved because of the above mentioned irresponsible, Forest service approved, cattle grazing.
Can't escape this. Maybe, it is time to get louder and more active.
Jbee
