25/01/2023
As long as we torture sentient life in order to produce food, our food will continue to make us sick, and that sickness will spread into all systems, both ideological and material, that we create and contribute to. This doesn't only apply to livestock and the meat packing industry, but factory farming and the exploitation of aquatic ecosystems as well. The agricultural system that we have is terrible for mother Earth. It is literally killing the oceans through the use of nitrates and the way this contributes to hypoxia. Earth is also losing approximately 10% of its arable farmland annually because we are not implementing sustainable farming methods. Methods that have been in place since the dawn of civilization. Since ancient mesopotamia, and possibly even before that
Mother Earth is a living entity. We need to treat her as such. She is alive and aware of everything we are doing. We are doing everything we can to kill her. And the ironic thing is that we can't. She is perfectly in balance... and she will remain perfectly in balance, regardless of how irresponsibly we manage her bounty. The only thing that we will succeed in killing is ourselves, possibly all mammalian life. But she will start over without us. And she will do a better job next time. Because she remembers everything.
I believe that one of the fundamental components of a compassionate existence is the way that we produce and consume food. That going forward, a compassionate existence will require us to grow our own food. I don't believe that you can live an ultimately compassionate existence and contribute to these systems. They are fundamentally evil. History will remember them as such. And much like we look back in horror at slavery and at genocide and at any of the great evils that have occurred throughout our human sojourn. The future will look back aghast at the way we have treated mother Earth and her many species, her many occupants. The truth is that responsible land management and sustainable food solutions might be the only path to ecological balance, and ultimately a healthy Earth. And if we don't figure it out soon, there may not be a future generation to look back at our mistakes at all.
(CTTO KALEN DION)
