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OMG OMG work driving me crazy don't want to be here would rather be doing a million other things ready to go home now blah blah blah. You know the drill.
Feeling morose today, but in a good way, if that makes sense. Thinking about my grandfather, RIP. Thinking about the rest of my family, which makes me morose in a not-good way. Stressing about all the shit I have to do, but less so since I am distracted by feeling morose, which tends to make you more apathetic. Must write a blog post as soon as I get home; have to write about something easy since I don't have a ton of time to spend researching.
Going to see Toy Story 3 tonight. That will make me feel better.
I started reading Jonathan Saffran Foer's Eating Animals yesterday. I shouldn't get into reviewing a book, probably, when I'm maybe a quarter of the way through it, but oh well. Mixed reactions so far. It's pretty interesting for the most part, but almost nothing I haven't heard before. I told Kim that I felt he was being 85% genuine and only 15% fucking irritating. He occasionally makes what I feel is a disingenuous argument, which is sad because this is an issue I want to be challenged on. We should think critically about these things, and I can no longer seriously engage with the question at hand when he throws out some stupid, easily refutable point. But for the most part I think he writes interestingly and even though it's very "101" right now, he occasionally succeeds in making me think differently about a situation.
So far, though, he has only succeeded in actually convincing me that we should be eating euthanized shelter animals. Think about it, all those millions of pounds of meat just going to waste. I mean, a fraction of it gets rendered (he seems to be under the impression that they all are, but really it's only a fraction), but the rest just goes in the ground. Really, if they're dying anyway, they should be eaten. I get passionate about a lot of food issues, but the thing that enrages me the most is waste, and in particular meat waste, because then a life has been taken for NO REASON. Up to 40% of our food goes to waste in this country while people starve around the world, proving the point of so many who say world hunger is NOT a supply issue, it's a distribution issue. But I digress... (Too bad someone else just wrote about food waste on my blog)
Kim pointed out to me that eating shelter animals would actually be a very bad idea, because if people in this country developed a taste for cat and dog, we would just farm them, creating perhaps the least sustainable food source in the world. We'd do better to feed them to other animals.
Anyway, conclusion so far: Foer is much more interesting when he's musing on why we get so extreme and divided over this issue than when he's making the case for taking a side. So far.
Also reading: the Scott Pilgrim series. Hooraaaaay! :D
Feeling morose today, but in a good way, if that makes sense. Thinking about my grandfather, RIP. Thinking about the rest of my family, which makes me morose in a not-good way. Stressing about all the shit I have to do, but less so since I am distracted by feeling morose, which tends to make you more apathetic. Must write a blog post as soon as I get home; have to write about something easy since I don't have a ton of time to spend researching.
Going to see Toy Story 3 tonight. That will make me feel better.
I started reading Jonathan Saffran Foer's Eating Animals yesterday. I shouldn't get into reviewing a book, probably, when I'm maybe a quarter of the way through it, but oh well. Mixed reactions so far. It's pretty interesting for the most part, but almost nothing I haven't heard before. I told Kim that I felt he was being 85% genuine and only 15% fucking irritating. He occasionally makes what I feel is a disingenuous argument, which is sad because this is an issue I want to be challenged on. We should think critically about these things, and I can no longer seriously engage with the question at hand when he throws out some stupid, easily refutable point. But for the most part I think he writes interestingly and even though it's very "101" right now, he occasionally succeeds in making me think differently about a situation.
So far, though, he has only succeeded in actually convincing me that we should be eating euthanized shelter animals. Think about it, all those millions of pounds of meat just going to waste. I mean, a fraction of it gets rendered (he seems to be under the impression that they all are, but really it's only a fraction), but the rest just goes in the ground. Really, if they're dying anyway, they should be eaten. I get passionate about a lot of food issues, but the thing that enrages me the most is waste, and in particular meat waste, because then a life has been taken for NO REASON. Up to 40% of our food goes to waste in this country while people starve around the world, proving the point of so many who say world hunger is NOT a supply issue, it's a distribution issue. But I digress... (Too bad someone else just wrote about food waste on my blog)
Kim pointed out to me that eating shelter animals would actually be a very bad idea, because if people in this country developed a taste for cat and dog, we would just farm them, creating perhaps the least sustainable food source in the world. We'd do better to feed them to other animals.
Anyway, conclusion so far: Foer is much more interesting when he's musing on why we get so extreme and divided over this issue than when he's making the case for taking a side. So far.
Also reading: the Scott Pilgrim series. Hooraaaaay! :D