Random Though; Colors

This thought has crossed my mind a few times, its rather interesting to think about. What if people see different colours than others? Like my blue is your green, and my green is your pink.

Then we don't know this only because we are taught which colours correspond to what names. "A rose is a rose by any other name"

It would just add to the proof of how impressionable our minds are. We would see different colours and shades yet we still get the same feelings, and emotions portrayed out of interacting with them.

Just something to think about. (:

GoodAsGould

"Why Are You Vegetarian?"

The questions I have been asked most, is exactly that. "Why are you a vegetarian?"

Even when I take the time to explain it people usually just reply with a lame reply, or something they think is clever, even though I counter quite quickly. To be honest, it gets annoying to answer it so many times. So for all those who wonder why a person would become a vegetarian other than the plain answer of "because killing animals is wrong", here's my reasons.

Of course one reason is animal cruelty. I'm fine with animals being killed, that's not my problem with it. Its the way those animals live there wholes lives and the way they are treated from birth until death, which is why I'm fine with eating fish occasionally. No, it is not isolated incidents in those videos you can easily find posted on the Internet. Most of them are accepted by the government(s), United States being one of the worst, if not the very worst. Its horrible, and I really wont go into that factor of it, so I'll add a link at the end of post.

My main reason is the earth and the environment. When I first say that to people, they usually reply, how does me eating a cow change the environment? It's just a cow. They would live naturally in the wild anyways. Wrong, the amount of farm animals humans breed for food far out numbers the amount there would be if we let them naturally reproduce and naturally life in the wild. People then reply, "Still, come on now, it cant be that much", which is yet again incorrect. United Nations reported in 2006 that, "raising animals for food produces more green house gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined."

Farming animals produces this much green houses gases for a few reasons.

Manure, "The tens of billions of farmed animals of the world produce massive amounts of manure, which emit green house gases such as methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide."

Cow Burps, "Ruminant animals such as cows and sheep, also emit huge quantities of methane via burping and flatulence. Methane has 23 times the global warming potential of CO2, and the livestock industry alone is responsible for 37 percent of human-induced methane emissions."

Deforestation, "Forests are being destroyed to make room for cattle to graze or to grow crops to feed livestock. When the trees are cut down or burned, the CO2 they store escapes back into the air."

Synthetic Fertilizer, "Growing feed for farmed animals requires intense use of synthetic fertilizers manufactured with fossil fuels. This process emits a tremendous amount of CO2, and the fertilizer releases nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas that is 296 times more potent than carbon dioxide."

Burning Fossil Fuels, "The burning of fossil fuels releases CO2, one of the primary gases responsible for global warming. In addition to fertilizer manufacturing, the meat industry uses fossil fuels to heat the buildings that house the animals, to produce of all the crops to feed to the animals, and to transport, process, and refrigerate all of the meat. Cornell ecologist David Pimentel estimates that animal protein demands about eight times as much fossil fuel than for a comparable amount of plant protein."

Being a vegan prevents the estimated equivalent of 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions every year. Thats more than switching to a hybrid sedan. Also, eating meat wastes resources. People always are very surprised about that fact. It's just something you could easily come to know if you every thought about it. It's also something you learn about in grade ten science. Every level of the food pyramid you go up the more is wasted. It takes a fourteen gallons of water to make a pound of grain. Where as it takes four hundred and forty-one gallons of water to produce one pound of meat. Those numbers have a huge ration difference, "Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish." Passing one hamburger is the same as forty showers with a low-flow nozzle.

These are just a few facts that can easily be found if you google about it. There are many more things I could say, but if what i said hasn't made you have second thoughts. Watch this video, "http://www.chooseveg.com/animal-cruelty.asp" Then if that still doesn't convenience you being a vegetarian, chances are i can't at all so I wont waste my time. As for those who want to know more, simply do some research, you can find information everywhere as long as you at least attempt to find it.

So to answer that question, "Why are you a vegetarian?", is simple. Because I care.

GoodAsGould

A Modest Proposal

--Wrote this for English class. General format based off of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, A short satirical writing that you should take the time to quickly read. Worth it.(: -- Could have wrote more on the topic but was restricted by the 750 word limit.--
People, there everywhere one can possibly look. They overcrowd the earth. They constantly produce offspring, which grow up with all the same flaws as their parents. Wasteful, greedy, and ignorant being just a few of their more obvious flaws. They do nothing useful all they do is destroy things, or make them into what they think they need. They disregard all the other life forms on their biological wonder of a planet. They will surely destroy this wonder if they continue to grow in numbers as they are, and of course they would also make them selves extinct as well. Though I will also admit, a few humans are not as horrible as the rest, and see the errors of the human way. Though they have little chance of making a difference in time. The only way for earth, and humans to survive for very long is if humans didn't increase in numbers so fast, but even that wouldn't be enough. They would have to lower significantly in numbers to give any good chance for survival of the planet and there species. This being the case, I modestly propose that all humans that are not capable of doing something needed out of necessity for there survival, not capable of labour, or being extra wasteful, should be exposed of.
In the event that my proposal is put into motion changes will be seen, all for the better. Firstly, the millions of products being manufactured in thousands of factories will cease to produce the useless products. There will be enough of the products already made for the surviving humans to use without need of being replaced unnecessarily just because it has a camera attached to it, or because its now a different color. Factory pollution accounts for more than half the volume of all water pollution, as well as some of the most deadly of pollutants. The water will be in better condition, as well as the air, allowing for vegetation and microorganisms to recycle co2 into more oxygen, allowing humans to survive if population stays at stable numbers as well as be healthier from breathing cleaner air.
Secondly the largely decreased population will not need to take up so much room for residential land. There will be enough land already killed by buildings and roads, that the humans will no longer need to expand. This will be beneficial for the earth because it can reclaim any areas that end up abandoned. As well as decreasing the number of cars needed, and the distance the humans have to travel to get to key areas in there insignificant lives, without harming the earth.
Thirdly due to the fact that humans will have more land, they can farm more plants as food and the humans won't have big corporations mass producing anything and everything, humans will be able to produce more vegetation as a food source instead of mass farming animals. This is significant because in less meat in the diets means healthier humans, meat is much hard on human digestive system, especially compared to plants. This will also make the earth in better condition by reducing the amount of waste of resources. To make one pound of pork it takes seven pounds of corn and soy. To produce a pound of wheat it takes around 14 gallons of water whereas for a pound of meat takes 441 gallons. Another benefit about having to produce less meat for humans to feed on there will be no more deforestation to make room for animal grazing. Ranching-induced deforestation is one of the main reasons for the loss of plant and animal species in tropical rain forests.
The benefits of my proposal to eliminate the mass majority of humans are undeniable, better air quality, healthier water and air, less time spent traveling, less people therefore less annoying and stupid people. Sure, some humans may disagree and say its inhuman to "murder" so many people. My response is that they are right, it is extremely inhuman, thinking about the better of the whole instead of the individual is very inhuman. It is also necessary for human survival. They will benefit in the long run, as will ever other living creature on earth, and of course earth it self.

GoodAsGould