If you don’t like sewage, stop eating it.

If you don’t like sewage, stop eating it.

I don’t care, it takes sooo good.  Give me a steak anytime.  And BACON - how can you live without bacon?

Let’s take a look at hurricane Florence.  First Florence lost almost all of her wind.  Went from a 5 to a 1 by the time she made landfall.  So shore damage was pretty much .... not much.  But she brought rain and more rain and more rain and flooding and rain and flooding.  That means, of course, catastrophic damage to lives and homes.  Really awful.  Thoughts and prayers.

Now, what have we got?  When the area affected is one of major livestock producing areas in the country; mostly pigs and poultry (chickens), that is ... well, shit (?).  I’ve been a vegan for nearly a half century.  I’m not proselytizing vegetarianism or anti-meat either.  I really could not care less what anybody else eats.  Really could not care less.

But ...

When thousands of acres, most of an entire state is awash in pig and chicken shit, then I care.  I care a lot when giardia (sp) starts sinking into the water table .  When for decades, thousands of acres of woodland will stink like shit ALL THE TIME!  I care.  Then, then... I really DO mind it when "It tastes so good" ,,, etc......

You might bet bacon and nuggets (and BBQ wings WTF-ever), but out the other end, you get shit, and great heaping lots of it, and you gotta get rid of that shit somehow.  When you recycle it into feed and then refeed that feed to the bacon makers, you get "mad cow" and so on.  Or, you shovel it into landfills ... I dunno, but it doesn't just disappear.  Then a massive flood comes and whoopsy-daisey ?? now it's in the schoolyard.  Didn't see that coming' eh?  

Tofu, which can be prepared to taste delicious, is made from soy beans.  If you flood a few thousand acres of soy beans, you get ... maybe spoiled soy beans.  What you don’t get is contaminated water, sickness and disease for years and years.  Flooding can cost millions in spoiled crops in a plant based economy.  Flooding in pig and chicken economy costs that by a factor of ten, not to speak of the tortuous end for all those animals.  

I know most chickens can’t fly and I doubt they float very well either.  Pigs?? Forget it!  I’ve never seen a pig swim, but my guess they about as good at swimming as they are at flying.

The calamities we suffer are all the more egregious when they are the result of the calamities we actually cause.