You Have No Idea Where That’s Been (Totally Unrelated to Spanking.)

Readers,

Maybe it’s that I’m at an age now where, had I had children of my own, I’d be trying to lay in some seriously long-lasting and meaningful life lessons; maybe it’s just because I’m smarter now than I was in my twenties. I certainly care more about other people, the world around me, and how I impact it all, than I did twenty years ago.
There’s also a really good chance that I know I have a somewhat ‘captive’ audience, as lots of folks come here to read about spanking, to which I may preach. Forgive me.

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So, what did you have for breakfast this morning? How about dinner last night?
Did it come out of a box or bag? Do you know what was in it? Do you know where it came from?

Are you sure?

Yeah, you have no idea. And neither do I. And that’s a Big Problem.

*Fair warning : As anyone who’s spent any amount of time whatsoever around me in recent years can attest, I can go off about this subject. Warm your coffee, get comfortable, and consider turning back now unless you really care what I think about things which have absolutely nothing to do with spanking.

Let’s start with a little information that’ll put us on more equal ground: Google “CAFO”. Read any of the first hundred articles which come up – or even better, just click the ‘image’ part of the search.

Now let that sit with you for a while.

That’s your food.

That’s what you had for breakfast this morning, and likely for dinner last night. It doesn’t matter whether you drove through the local fast food joint, ate at a high-end restaurant, or shopped in your local supermarket for food you prepared at home – it’s almost guaranteed that your meat products came from a CAFO. 

Now let’s take one more foray into Google’s vast wealth of knowledge – search “GMO”.  Same deal; same schtick. This is what you’re eating. The crap that they’re calling food. 

Chemical company Monsanto owns the PATENT on most of the grain foods you eat now, and lots of the vegetables, and all of the stuff they feed CAFO animals. In other words, Monsanto is your supermarket. They’ve engineered foods to be able to live through repeated sprayings of RoundUp (that weed killer you buy at Walmart) – that’s right, folks, weed killer. Poison. The stuff that will kill you, kill your pets, and kill full grown trees….those people sell the seeds that grow the corn, wheat, and other ‘healthy’ stuff you buy.

And those CAFO animals? They’re pumped full of antibiotics to keep their feet rotting off while grown exponentially on feedlots – and they’re fed things that they’d NEVER eat in a million years given the choice. The antibiotics must be SO strong to keep down disease that they have to wash the processed meat in…ready for this?….ammonia – AMMONIA, to kill off the antibiotic properties before they’re passed on to us. But fear not! – we get the antibiotics anyway in the shit/sludge/runoff from these CAFO’s that goes directly into our lakes, rivers, and, eventually, drinking water. 

Yummy.

If this little bit of information hasn’t changed the way you look at the things you put in your body, your kids and grandkids’ bodies, and your pets’ bodies, then hopefully it’s given you pause to think about the ‘lives’ lived by the animals we’re going to consume.

Educate yourself. Please.

Start with watching the documentary ‘Food, Inc.’. What? You don’t have 90 minutes to devote to living a healthier, more conscious life?

That’s what I thought.

**Look, I’m not soap-boxing here, and am not judging. I eat meat pretty regularly – but now I (granted, much more expensively) only buy grass fed beef, free range chicken, and Organic Everything as often as possible. There’s no more fast food, and few restaurant trips….but I’ll tell you something : I feel better.

And I want you to feel better, too.

 

Think about it…

–  Dana