One of the biggest complaints against organic produce and free-range meat is that it’s too expensive and elitist for the “common man”. They say it’s just not feasible.
Naturally, I beg to differ. It’s entirely feasible and entirely plausible. Not as an alternative but as the norm.
It’s funny how far we’ve come when we’re not willing to pay for good, clean food anymore. It’s feasible for us to add a $10 text messaging option to our cell phones, on top of our $100 monthly bill. It’s feasible for us to have $50-100 of programming for our televisions. It’s feasible for us to buy our kids all kinds of toys and clothes. It’s feasible for us to drive vehicles that drink $3.00 of gasoline for 15 miles like a fat kid pounding milkshakes. It’s feasible for us to pay twice as much for a piece of clothing because of a 2 inch logo or insignia. But it’s not feasible to pay $1 more for something raised right.
And to borrow an argument of Michael Pollan, isn’t it funny that we would all aspire to drive a Honda as opposed to a Suzuki. Or we aspire to drive a BMW or Porsche with it’s superior craftsmanship and high-end engine, but we think all meat and produce is the same?
All meat is not created equal. Quick facts . . . 50 years ago, it took 8 years to raise a cow up for eating. It is now done in 14 months. Cows were created and evolved to eat grass. Now they eat processed corn mixed with steroids and hormones. Maybe it’s not the Doritos and fat asses stuck to the couch. Maybe it’s steroids that are giving us man tits and forcing little girls into puberty earlier and earlier.
It’s feasible. It’s entirely feasible.
I hate to sound negative. I really do. But I think some of this is just inevitable if I open my mouth.
It’s feasible.
Downgrade your cable or satellite package. Downgrade your gas guzzler for something that gets a few extra miles. Buy a few less outfits a month. And all of a sudden, eating naturally becomes a reality and less a privilege of the elite.
I’m really, really tired of all this talk about how bad the economy sucks. You’re right it does. But it’s our fault too. And while an inept president may have tipped us further in this direction, we should carry the blame as well. We’re the ones who bought more house than we can afford. We’re the ones who carry multiple credit lines with us. We’re the ones who mortgaged our future for a piece of paper that says we’re educated. Our system is broken. When my tax dollars go to bailing out big businesses and financial brokers and mortgage companies with shady CEOs and Boards of Directors, it’s time to say enough is enough. When they get fired for their “indiscretions” and get to walk away with huge severance packages and new jobs somewhere else repeating their same mistakes, it’s time to say enough is enough. When Wal-Mart moves into my neighborhood and gets tax breaks handed to them on a silver platter and someone else to wipe their ass, while I bend over and take it from Uncle Sam, it’s time to say enough is enough.
We are complicit in our silence and our apathy. I think it’s time for a noisy holy rage that turns the tables and exposes them for what they are. I think it’s time for a quiet resistance that lives as if the government is irrelevant. I think it’s time to opt-out.
I don’t want to hear another conservative bitch about our education system when they’re financing 720 million dollars a day for the Iraq War. I don’t want to hear another conservative bitch about our falling economy when they’re financing 720 million dollars a day for the Iraq War. Enough is enough. There couldn’t be a larger contradiction than that. You can’t eat your cake and have it to.
Is there any surprise why the dollar is worth so little overseas? When you have to print 720 million a day the value tends to go down really quickly. You can call me a hippie. You can call me a liberal. But I just think it’s really sad when the “conservative” becomes the “liberal” and the “liberal” become the “conservative”. And it’s even sadder that we’ve somehow forgotten just how provocative and changing Jesus actually is.
