"barftastic" written by Lilho on estrip.org

02/26/09 10:47 - 37ºF - ID#47892

barftastic

If you enjoy fast food, particularly the delicious meat, you may not want to read this journal.

I just finished watching Fast Food Nation. Do not watch this movie meat lovers! You will be disgusted beyond belief....

I like my steak very rare and juicy, but I guess now I could saw I like it rare and juicy with a side of feces...

The Momma Ho is coming back onto town tonight and she's gonna makes steak for dinner and for the first time in my life, I am going to say no thank you.

If you are a veggie go ahead and watch the movie, you might really enjoy the scenes of the kill floor where the cows are being skinned and dissected. Skinned cow-head with eyeballs intact anyone? How about some cow kidney? This is the movie to watch!

I am so disturbed... good movie, but so so gross. Makes me think about what I'm putting in my body....

metalpeter writes at 12:19:34 02/28/09 - Comment #45984: I saw that movie and from what I remember it was pretty good. In terms of if we had to kill to eat would we? See that is a trick question really. If slaughter houses where to close and the way we had to eat meat was to go out to farm or find and an animal walking the streets and go kill it, I think most people wouldn't be able to do that. I think most people might puke a few times trying to do that. Eating and killing is natural. But see in this country at least we are so removed from it, we couldn't do it. Yes some people do go to butchers and see the end product. But most people go and buy bread and meat and ice cream all at the same place. Yes you buy beef and know it is from a cow (I'm sure some people might not now that). and you can get different kinds of beef (think lean vs. non lean) but no one really goes up and thinks about the cow and if it died happy and if it was treated well, beef is just what they are going to fry out on the grill.

(e:leetee) I do get how you don't get why we eat a cow and have a Cat as a pet. I will admit that it is kinda strange. Not to mention that different cultures have different pets and animals that you can't kill and religions also. Hey some place they eat dog. When things really get weird is when someone on a farm has animals they raise and then have to slaugter them. I have heard that sometimes if they get like a favorite pig then they will keep that one a live and kill the others. I would think you would have to keep some of the animals alive just for breeding.

james writes at 12:38:15 02/26/09 - Comment #45951: I have to disagree Leetee. Removing factors like time, and use of utilities, there wouldn't be any fewer meat eaters if we butchered our own animals. Civilization is founded on an agrarian/pastoral base. People butchered animals they raised from birth for thousands of years.

The problem with our food supply is that it is way too centralized, particularly with animals and their products. In grade school, we learn about slave ships where humanity was packed shoulder to shoulder in suffocating ship quarters. We learned that many of them died from disease. We do the same to the animals we eat. Driving down California from San Fransisco to Los Angeles I saw miles and miles of cows packed shoulder to shoulder on grassless fields. The difference is that we have engineered antibiotics to keep animals alive in unlivable conditions. It is no different with plant crops. Miles of corn does not exist in nature, yet our farms engineer this through petro-fertilizers, crop engineering, and pesticides.

Smaller, local, decentralized farms with a variety of crops and species requires much less intervention and, ultimately, fewer chemicals that end up in our bodies. That means that certain meat will be more expensive, but that means that all meats will be better tasting, more healthy, and without the massive carbon footprint.

To end on a personal note, I have no moral problem eating a cat.

leetee writes at 11:59:06 02/26/09 - Comment #45950: i've not seen the film. but i get grossed out super easily.

you're so right, (e:joshua), eating meat does mean butchering animals. and i have thought for many years now that if we had to kill the animals ourselves, a lot more people would consider being a vegetarian.

i know i am a freak about this, but when i found out what meat was, i just could not fathom eating it and could not see the moral difference between my cat and a cow.

now that i know i don't eat shit, too... well, i am comforted by that thought. thanks, (e:lilho).

lilho writes at 11:04:05 02/26/09 - Comment #45949: its not just that... people die so we can eat meat and people are exploited. i guess i thought even though its gross there wasn't any shit in the meat i eat... but the people who are processing this stuff aren't even trained right... i want to live on a farm now.

joshua writes at 10:58:24 02/26/09 - Comment #45948: It's shock value, meant to freak people out. Our culture is so sheltered from where our food comes from that actually introducing people to how their food is produced is almost like reverse culture shock. Eating meat means butchering animals, and some people can't handle that. I don't really think there is a statement to make about this otherwise... it is what it is.

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02/24/09 05:34 - 22ºF - ID#47878

insanity!!!!

they found 500 lbs of weed on fabolous's tour bus!!!!!!! 500!!??!!

i was just at his party last weekend, and i noticed a bunch of green lying around, but i didn't think it was part of collection of 500 lbs!

anyway, i know celebs get away with a lot, but i just don't see how he'll be able to rationalize this!

i am now going to continue my day as a law abiding citizen! ;)

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02/23/09 05:00 - 22ºF - ID#47870

math and science might kill me

seriously give me english lit, art history, fine art, or theory any day and i can make myself look somewhat intelligent.

the combination of math and science puts me in a sub-standard level of intelligence, and i cry a little on the inside.

:(

i'm hiding out.

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02/20/09 12:03 - 20ºF - ID#47824

a bit concerned

im beginning to think no one will hire me as a teacher because i am present on the web. lucky for me all of my shining moments have been captured by my tech friendly friends and i fear when prospective employers google me, it won't be pretty.

the stuff you find isn't so bad, however, one pic of me leads to a link in (e:pauls) journal and right there, bam, he's naked full frontal.

i expressed this concern to (e:paul) and (e:hodown) who gave me really solid advice: be an exotic dancer instead. thanks guys, you always come through with great solutions to any sort of issue or problem i have.

now, let's all pray for a miracle or two: my stuff magically disappears from google, and buffalo magically heats up to at least 50 in the next three weeks, plsnthxgdbai.

ps. looooooove the lady gaga! i wish i could walk around in leotards and never wear pants.... wait that sounds wrong. but i do love her insane style!!!

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02/18/09 11:49 - 32ºF - ID#47797

scary moment 2009

yesterday i was on the freeway and here was a bee on my car. i've never been stung and i feel like maybe i might be allergic, and i nearly killed myself and other people. it was basically one of the scariest moments of my life.

to (e:mike): when i was little, i was in toronto with my childhood bff and we were in chinatown for chinese new year and this nice old man gave us some candy bars. i was so happy and immediately started eating mine, and halfway through i looked down and there were worms crawling all over it. i showed my friend, but she didn't really care, and then i just threw it out and didn't say anything. when i think of that, i am still horrified. so, i know exactly how you feel, it's life changing because you will never look at fruit the same way again; the same way i don't look at chocolate bars with lust. it's more when i think of chocolate bars i think of worms and puke and gagging.

t minus 24 days until my buffalo arrival.

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Category: the cuteness

02/12/09 01:01 - 51ºF - ID#47725

cell phone bed

(e:hodown) bought me this a long time ago.... i don't know what i did with it, and i want another one. sooooooooo cute! and the slippers you use to clean your phone!

plznthxbai.

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Category: grey gardens

02/12/09 12:14 - 51ºF - ID#47724

this is my life

my mother just spray tanned me in her shower. i was basically nude. then i ran around to try an dry it faster; i am insane.

but at least i will have a hot spray(non-cancer) tan for my hot outfit saturday night!

i know what you're thinking, well, no i really don't, but i have been working so hard the past month and it's a sea of 14-16 hr days and this party is gonna be sooooo much fun.

oh the stories i will have to tell the grandkids one day!!!

:)

and it'd better warm up because it's been in the 50's all week, and i can't take it anymore.

i think the math test went well....

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Category: school

02/09/09 11:46 - 33ºF - ID#47689

im praying for a miracle

my math tutor just cancelled on me because her fiance and son are sick... or did she party too hard???

i am currently in a state of panic because i will fail this exam tomorrow without some serious help. eeeeeek.

she says she can help me tomorrow before the exam, but that is not enough.

i have already called a friend begging for help... i will do pretty much anything, i just need to get at least a c on this exam. screw a's, i just want a c.

NOT a good way to start the week. stressed about things like math....

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :(

i am now going to say a prayer.

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Category: recession

02/05/09 10:55 - 1ºF - ID#47649

begging works

the kind of begging i speak of is the more grown up positive kind. i think i convinced my boss to give me a f/t job.

also, she doesn't have an issue with me taking a week off in march, so blo is awwwwnnnn!

i suppose having faith does work, and also keeping a positive attitude.

i can't wait to see that baby girl and give her snuggles and kisses!!!!!!!!!

since i will no longer be working with the kiddie, i will be long overdue and in need of hugs and love from a little monster cutie.

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Category: recession

02/04/09 11:39 - 15ºF - ID#47632

the good the bad, and the faith

i am really to put on happy face, but it's hard, because this week has thus far been just full of bad news.

so, i am going to make a list of the good and the bad to put things into perspective. the rest, i will just put my faith into, and really hope that things work out.

good: