Okay, I admit I wasn't there when it started, and even if I had been, I probably would not have done anything to stop it. I mean, come on. Who knew? I’m sure I would have been one of the stupid ones.
Ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution,we haven't known what to do with all the waste products that we were producing. So we just let them go wherever they went. We just threw them away. Of course, one of the biggest ones was coal. All the smoke, and all the dust. And of course, all that soot. Soot is the physical byproduct of burning coal. It's a black, oily dust that gets all over everything. Everywhere.
You've seen pictures of all those cute little ragamuffins during the Industrial Revolution all covered with black soot. They looked sort of like the Little Rascals all smeared in black-face. So the smoke and dust got into the air. Then there was the slaughterhouse waste. And all of the leather tanning chemicals. Since we didn't know what to do with it, we just let it go and gravity did the rest.
Fast forward to now. For several hundred years now, we've been letting our waste get into our water, and therefore, into our food. But allowing it to get into our food indirectly wasn't good enough for us. Oh no. Because of agribusiness and its incredible greed, we are putting the poison directly onto our plants. Hell, we are modifying our plants, to the extent that that we don't know if they are poison or not. Same with our livestock. Pump them full of antibiotics and steroids and test the results on the consumer market.
As a result of all these stupid farming practices, there is a movement toward slow food, grown naturally and organically. In order to be certified as organic, a grower must go through rigorous regulations and testing. It doesn't help when a neighbor is spraying pesticides and fungicides onto their fields because the wind bends to no man. If this airborne stuff gets onto the organic crops, it invalidates the reason for the natural process and gets the “Organic” designation lifted. Thanks guys.
So, if you prefer to eat better, you may still be at risk from those who don’t give a manure, as long as there’s profit in it.
Funny thing. Because of the extensive use of pesticides and antibotics, the bugs and the infections (bugs) have become immune and stronger than ever. And, it turns out, monoculture in farming will deplete the land very quickly. By the way, this fungicide that they’re using can kill the mycelium layer in the soil, a fungus that literally makes growing anything possible.
Where I wouldn’t have been able to do anything back in the 1800’s, that isn’t the case today. We have really got to start looking at the big picture. Everything has consequences. For my part, I try to avoid buying products from companies that don’t or won’t employ sustainability best-practices. Vote with your wallet. Money is the only language these pigs understand, and I say we get all Rosetta Stone on their rumps.
