Food Inc.; Fast Food, Factory Farming and the Way We Treat Our Animals

Today's Food:

Breakfast: 1 banana with a tablespoon of raw, crunchy almond butter with shredded coconut and cinnamon

32 ounces lemon water

Lunch:
"Living Food" salad with shredded cabbage, cauliflower, carrot and broccoli with Bragg's, olive oil and sea salt

Snacks:
Raw Revolution chocolate hazelnut bar
yummy ripe Bosc pear
golden delicious apple
raw cashews
"Bucksah" or "St. John's Bread," which is actually the whole carob pod. When you chew its hard shell, it has a beautiful sweet carob taste inside. It is tradiitonally eaten on the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shvat, which honors the harvest and the trees and earth. I had some left from the holiday in February.

Dinner:
salad with romaine, purple cabbage, carrot, daikon, sprouts with nutritional yeast, dulse flakes, olive oil and Herbamare

Dessert:
2 rolled dates in coconut

12 ounces water

The film "Food Inc." was being shown in the wonderful arty theatre near me; the Avon. I hadn't yet seen it, primarily because I have been an advocate for healthy food and farming practices for years and have already seen alot of footage of factory farming and pollution of our planet. However, I was moved to tears while watching it, as I always am when I witness loving animals being tortured and treated like worthless, disposable products used to further the greed and fill the stomachs of ignorance. Robert Kenner made such a beautiful and meaningful film; an important piece of film history for everyone to see, along with Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma"). Please take your loved ones, friends and children to see this film. Take your students, congregations and organizations to watch it, and then open up a discussion about their reactions, responses, thoughts, feelings and suggestions for making change and putting an end to this nightmare. I think it's a film that should be viewed more than once, because the truth about how we get to eat what we eat becomes quickly overshadowed by the commercialization, glorification and temptation of this "fake food" pushed upon us.
My heart weeps for every animal who gives up their autonomy to people who cannot see and hear their cries. I highly recommend the book, "Ishmael," by Daniel Quinn; it's about a man's relationship with a gorilla, his teacher and mentor, and the man as the student, and how our concept of evolution is radically skewed. All I could see while watching those parts of Food Inc. were the animals crying out in pain. I could see that in their eyes.
One of the major sources of global warming is the methane gas excreted from factory farms; clean up those practices, take the power away from the three or five conglomerates who own, dominate and terrorize the farming industry, and see our planet heal.
You can check out the trailer for Food Inc. here and find out where the film is playing near you.
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

If you want to organize a raw or vegetarian potluck in your community, you can charge five, ten or twenty dollars per person and donate the money to Farm Sactuary, a magnificent organization with two homes; one in Watkins Glen, NY and the other near Orland, CA. Their mission and dedication is to rescue animals from factory farming practices. They have two farms, where you can visit the animals. You can also "adopt" an animal as a gift for someone (where that person gets updates and a picture of their adoptee), donate money or even just buy a sweatshirt from them. It all goes to help the factory farmed animals they rescue.
http://farmsanctuary.org/

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