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| Opinionative Essaye by me. |
Jan 25th, 2006 9:08:59 pm - Subscribe |
| “People have assumed that intelligence is linked to the ability to suffer and that because animals have smaller brains, they suffer less than humans. That is a pathetic piece of logic,” says John Webster, a professor of animal husbandry. For years, I have been told eating meat is standard and the normal thing to do, I hadn’t even questioned it. My young mind never had the chance to question. Unfortunately, that happens to so many, most people are told milk is the “perfect food” and meat provides great protein you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else. To tell the truth, I’ve never felt better since giving all of that up. Life is very perfect for the milk cow; it gets to graze around lazily through giant grass fields with their young. She’s brought to be milked every afternoon by the hands of the caring farmer and grows to its natural lifespan of about 25 years, do you believe this? The average milk cow lives to be 4 to 5 years old before no longer able to produce milk and this time is spent in cramped barns hooked up to machines that drain unnatural large amounts of milk a day. Their young are taken away within 48 hours of birth and sent off in cramped veal cages to be butchered for meat. In its short time of life, the milk cow is stuffed full of Bovine Growth Hormone which allows the cow to produce more milk and develop faster; it gets passed on to you. Is milk good for you? Humans are the only creatures in existence that drink milk after being weaned, as well as drink milk from another species. Cows are large creatures, their calves mature in their first year of life, so naturally, their milk is filled with protein and fat. Human babies double in size in about 180 days; a calf accomplishes this in about 45. Still, you are no doubt wondering, what about the “miracle ingredient” of milk"its Calcium? There are several little-known facts about this chemical that you won’t ever find in the “drink milk” ads or on a package of cheese. The amount of calcium you actually need is very low, the reasons for bone loss diseases like Osteoporosis are because eating large amounts of animal protein, like you find in a steak or a glass of milk, increase the acidity level in your body which it must then counter by taking calcium out of your bones. Further, the calcium in milk will almost all be washed right through your system because what matters more than the amount of Calcium you ingest is how much Magnesium (the crucial chemical for your body’s process of absorbing and retaining calcium) you get. Without the capacity to use it, all of that calcium is actually doing you nothing, and besides, the need for it is created by the products you eat to cure it in the first place. A calf taken from its mother, sometimes they spend a day together, some aren’t so fortunate. Shipped as soon as possible, the male calf (or sometimes female) is stuffed into a veal crate where it has no ability to turn around. Unable to spare the mothers milk, the calf has very little chance of survival; so naturally, we use them for what little meat we can get off their bones. They will either be shipped to an auction house for those to bid, or directly to a butcher. The average female calf is kept to follow in their mothers footsteps, of course if she is born with no birth defects from all of the artificial inseminations, and are lucky enough to live up to 3-4 years longer than their brothers. Most dairy cows, after producing all the milk they are able to produce are sent to be hung by their hind legs and their throats to be cut. I’ll spare the details. There are so many third world countries on this plant filled with starving families, they strive for food and water. The average cow will drink 35-66 litres (8-15 gallons) of water a day. On average, it takes 5 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of edible beef. This is highly inefficient use of resources. This is a very ignorant and destructive practice that is both morally incorrect when you consider that situations of starving people in other countries and an unsustainable market that is growing far too large and will soon collapse. Additionally, a cow’s digestive system is far less efficient than a human’s, so the amount of greenhouse gases like methane that are produced from their ineffectively cleaned waste is incredibly devastating on the atmosphere. Not to mention the amount of cow feces polluting nearby water systems surrounding farms. “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian,” says The Beatle, Paul McCartney. I could never touch another piece of meat or drink another glass of milk with all of the facts in mind. There are always gory details to death, and all meat is dead. I feel just as bad for the cow as I would for the pig or chicken, even fish (or the family of foxes that provided one lovely coat). People don’t think or face consequences for the things that they do, they believe what they are told when people say “this is good for you” and why. They all forget, that person selling you that milk wants money just as much as that lawyer settling a case. The world needs more open minded people who are willing to take in this information or any information and be able to say, “What I’ve been doing for the past 10, 20, or 50 years have been wrong.” |
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| mood: meh |
(3) sat behind the drumset. |
| Thank goodness ...I didn\'t lose it all from forgetting a title. |
Jan 25th, 2006 5:36:29 pm - Subscribe |
| I'm feeling completely achy today. My head is pounding. We had to go and buy hamburger buns after school since Zander's mom was too sick or something. I think it was the passing cars, or the weather, but it made my head pound. I can't find a place that sells vegetarian cat food or treats. How sick. So, I buy her dairy treats, they have chicken in them. But, it's by-product chicken ...but, does it need chicken? So now, I shall morely feed her some of our fake meat. She doesn't know the difference. I had my Chemistry exam today, the first half. My teacher pretty much let us cheat ...with permission (I guess its not cheating them). He told me one of the answers straight out. Nice. I wish I was better at writing interesting entries. I guess I can't though. I never feel comfortable on this computer ...people always walk in and out. I can't find myself here, or something like that. Make it up as you go ...I'm not myself in this room. Did that sound desperate? Yeah, probably. |
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| mood: worthless Current Tune: Desaparecidos - The Happiest Place on Earth |
(3) sat behind the drumset. |
| I love the songs by Desaparecidos. |
Jan 24th, 2006 3:47:00 pm - Subscribe |
| My cat had clawed off my hand almost. My days have been so boring. Zander and I are gonna move around my room and clean it and stuff. I live for that type of thing. I'm thinking of making up print offs for the awareness of animal cruelty and handing them out and/or posting them in public places. I dunno though. Am I that brave.  My hair is short and purple now. Soon it will be shorter and black. Kinda like an old fashioned conor oberst female. I'll love it. Apologies for the shoddy quality of the picture. |
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| mood: catty Current Tune: The Good Life - Notes in his Pocket |
(6) sat behind the drumset. |
| Exam week. |
Jan 23rd, 2006 10:32:33 pm - Subscribe |
| I'm tired, and nothing seems to be happening. At least the semester is almost over. Though that means the annoying mess of next semester's classes. Ugh. |
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| mood: mercurial |
(2) sat behind the drumset. |
| Someday, something will happen. |
Jan 18th, 2006 9:25:53 pm - Subscribe |
| Maybe tomorrow will be cancelled. I wish. | |
| mood: sedated |
(1) sat behind the drumset. |
| School is not on today! |
Jan 18th, 2006 7:33:06 am - Subscribe |
| I wish I could just get back to sleep, but it seems impossible now. Probably because I went to sleep super early, like 9 or something. Zander and I were caught sleeping together. Its funny, everytime the topic comes up, Zander's mom comes up with a new reason why it bothers her. Before it was "it will bother your brother." Today, she claimed it was cause she doesn't think we'll get good sleep in a tiny bed together. Ah well, no school! I don't know why, but this makes me so very happy. I'm sick. My throat is ill. |
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| mood: tearful Current Tune: Bright Eyes - Don\'t Know When but a Day is Gonna Come |
(1) sat behind the drumset. |
| Something that happened today. |
Jan 17th, 2006 3:53:49 pm - Subscribe |
| Well, Zander and I were home early from school because we could hardly stand the idea of going to our classes. We were watching this canadian show, "The Michael Coren Show" which is just people brought together to discuss issues. Well, the topic of Pamela Anderson's big "boycott KFC" came up. This one man said he can't stand the woman (despite how much he enjoys looking at her). All they could say was she was an airhead. The one guy went further to say that this boycott has encouraged him to eat at KFC more and that Throughout January, he would eat KFC once a day the whole month (he even pulled out a chicken leg and ate it right on the show!). He also mentioned we are top of the food chain, so we should be able to eat and wear whatever we want. That made me SO angry! And then, I believe one of the men said that a lot more important issues need to be handled like poverty. Yes, poverty is very wrong ...but is it really more important? Besides, who says we can't tackle two issues at once? Closed minded people suck. |
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| mood: annoyed Current Tune: Neutral Milk Hotel - Ghost |
(7) sat behind the drumset. |
| I wanna fight for the chickens, the cows, the pigs, and the fish. |
Jan 16th, 2006 7:20:48 pm - Subscribe |
| Zander and I are becoming vegan! As best we can, anyway. It's tough, living under someone else's roof means its a challenge to keep track of all the non-dairy products that we get. Plus, all the nag about how much more our soy costs compared to their milk. Well, we don't drink milk anymore, or use milk anymore (ie, kraft dinner and stuff). We avoid as much as possible that simply says milk or eggs (yolk) in the ingredients. I've discovered the world can be a horrifying place. I hate that. |
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| mood: knowledgeable Current Tune: Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy |
(2) sat behind the drumset. |
| These days have been good. |
Jan 16th, 2006 11:50:27 am - Subscribe |
| I'm happy today. Zander's brother has taken over the dishes from us. We had gooten fed up with washing people's disgusting dishes covered in meat. They were by far the worst. So cruel, Zander went to his dad to say, 'look, Marlene and I are not comfortable with washing these dishes.' His dad told him it was too bad, we came to him too late about it. (His job is about 6 hours away from where we live, so he only spends weekends at home.) Well, we were mad because its hard to find time to talk to him because he offers his time to a lot of people outside the house. We were pissed, he said that we'd have to tough it out and wash the disgusting dishes with meat that make me wanna throw up until next weekend. The nerve, we don't even eat the meat! Luckily, Zander's brother came home and accepted our offer. We take all his chores as long as he does dishes. Thank goodness for that! Anyway, not much new. I have a big ISP to do, well, it's already late. We had started handing stuff in for it at the beginning of the semester and it's just about the last week. Lots of work to do! |
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| mood: free Current Tune: Bright Eyes - Entry Way Song |
(1) sat behind the drumset. |
| Semester is ending. |
Jan 14th, 2006 7:44:07 pm - Subscribe |
| I'm excited. For my Writer'sCraft class, I am doing my Independent Study Project on opiniated essays so I am going to write about the gruesome life of the milk cow. How their babies are sent away to be veal cows or future milk cows. How they are stuffed full of hormones, how milk is actually not terribly good for you. (Can cause acne, gas, excess weight, and it can also help lead into diseases or other terrible problems) It's not that milk is bad ...well, I'm a believer that cow milk is for cows, imagine that. But, milk wouldn't be so bad if we took the time to not throw so much grabage into the cows who produce it. Deathcab4you. Your mom sounds really awesome! I wish more people were like that. For the time being, Zander and I have just cut milk out as much as possible. Funny, our bones haven't become brittle or weak, we haven't suffered any broken bones or cracking teeth. It's so silly how much people think milk keeps you alive. (Whatever did people do when we didn't have the technology to produce enough milk for the entire world?) And now for something interesting Milk is supposedly some magic wonder drink, thats SO good for you. One of the main reasons for this is because it contains what? Calcium. But, the fact is, you can't retain that calcium because your body needs another chemical, the micronutrient magnesium, in order to maintain that calcium. Most of it gets flushed right out of your system. But, seriously, you shouldn't need that much calcium anyways- the only reason people get things like osteoporosis (bone deteriation) is because over eating meat causes an acidic environment in the body, which must be countered by taking the stored calcium in your bones to balance the pH level. Instead, you should be eating vegetable protein. Something so simple as brocolli will substitute milk (or liquid protein) and meat (or protein). These are healthy choices if you think about it, this is where the cow gets the protein in the first place, it is a primary source of energy. Think about that for a change. |
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| mood: troubled |
(1) sat behind the drumset. |
| With the sun beams bright, you keep your eyes shut. |
Dec 27th, 2005 1:35:13 pm - Subscribe |
| Not much to say. Christmas went pretty well. Still have my fingers crossed for that job. Yeah. Merry (belated) Christmas. |
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| mood: faded |
(3) sat behind the drumset. |
| Your alarm clock lies, get to school on time. |
Dec 23rd, 2005 1:02:22 pm - Subscribe |
| Zander and I are gonna go into Ottawa. I'm happy for that. I can chip in some money I have to buy him the game he really wants. I suppose this means I will be getting him a present for Christmas. Well, I'm not much for presents ...so I never really cared much if a present was not under the tree saying. To him. From me. You know. Well, 2 more days. I would think I'd be more excited. |
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| mood: competitive |
(2) sat behind the drumset. |
| But you\'re a bag of warm fluid, you\'re the corpse in the class. |
Dec 22nd, 2005 2:52:01 pm - Subscribe |
 Christmas time is approaching and real quick too. Come Friday, I am applying to a new job. I heard they are hiring in January, which is perfect! I just hope plenty others haven't heard that too. This time, I promised myself that if this job doesn't work out, then I will keep trying and trying! It's at a convience store type thing. Its called Giant Tiger. Wish me luck! I will get my application tomorrow. Anyway. I have a story to tell. A story involving Zander's mother. She and Zander's brother were eating shrimp. Well, Zander and I are off fish officially now! And, Zander's mom throws some shrimp on our plates. "It's so delicious, you must try!" she says. We both shake our heads in disapproval. "Do it for me!" she complains. ..still ...no. Then she goes to say that we're really rude or something. Either way, she tries a guilt trip! Ugh! So, that has ticked us off a fair bit. Can you believe it? Milk actually isn't all that great for you. It causes acne (well, all the hormones the cow is stuffed with mixes with your hormones ...), along with many other things. (Let alone, it is linked with several diseases!) I am so happy I am off of it. And eggs, I don't mind the idea of eating non-living chicks. It's the way they treat the chickens who lay these eggs that gets to me. De-beaked. Stuffed in crates or little holding cells. If only ...the world wasn't such a terrible place. It makes me ill, now that I look for it, leather and fur is everywhere. As well meat-eaters. |
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| mood: burned-out Current Tune: Radiohead - My Iron Lung |
(3) sat behind the drumset. |
| You walk so near to the lockers, you lay so low in the grass. |
Dec 21st, 2005 7:28:46 pm - Subscribe |
| Zander and I are planning on becoming vegans. Yep, Vegans. When we move out. We'd be told off plenty if we decided that while living in this house, we'd never hear the end. "Oh, it's so expensive!" Well, I'd love to get a job and buy all my own food ...but, this town has dick all for work and I have no car or license. Why did I mess up so bad! "It's unhealthy!" Yeah ...huh? Unhealthy? Funny so many can do it. Besides, how many obese vegetarians or vegans do you know? Now ...how many obese meat eaters do you know? ... Yeah. Well, for now, we're off milk and eggs. But we're doing it silently. If we told anyone ..well, yeah. We've decided no more fish! Fish suffer too! I mean, you should just look into how they are treated! They have their insides pushed out through their mouths! Their eyes pop out when so much weight of other fish are over them in the oversized nets! Hello! People do that retarded seal hunt and thats because they act on instinct and will eat OUR fish! (Our fish?!) And here we are, killing SO many fish a year by those nets and just tossing them back! Come on! Well, that is my latest news. |
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| mood: healthy Current Tune: Radiohead - No Surprises |
(5) sat behind the drumset. |
| Did you get that coat from the principal? |
Dec 19th, 2005 3:31:53 pm - Subscribe |
| “People have assumed that intelligence is linked to the ability to suffer and that because animals have smaller brains they suffer less than humans. That is a pathetic piece of logic" -John Webster, Professor of animal husbandry at Bristol. |
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| mood: zonked Current Tune: Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi |
(4) sat behind the drumset. |
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