The choices we make

Following my own set agenda for this blog, I'm going to talk about simple choices we all make everyday, and their impact on the planet. I wonder why I'm so concerned about the planet? Possibly because its the only we have. And summers have been getting worse....thats worth trying to fix !

Sadly, I suspect the morbid truth is that whatever Al Gore and millions of others try to do for the planet - we are on a slippery downhill slope of self-destruction and Live Earth, Earth Day etc etc will at best slow down the slide, not stop it. The human race is terrible and destructive. Our greatest strength is the cause for what will be the end of us. It is our ability to take the learnings of one generation, apply them in the next and move forward with intelligence rather than instinct. Science & Technology - The wheel, written communication, the knife, the gun, the printing press, the car,the aeroplane and the internet are all our greatest achievements and also irreversible paths to the end of this planet as we know it. Prove me wrong! I double dare you.

But coming back to the choices we make, let me start with a very personal choice for me. One that I have been battling with for some time now and one where I have finally chosen a side.

To kill or not to kill, that is the question. Eating meat, i.e. killing animals for food. There are largely 3 reasons cited as justifications to killing animals for food.

1. Its healthier than eating plants.

2. Its necessary to keep the ecosystem in balance.

3. Its tastier than eating plants.

Out of these, I agree wholeheartedly with pt. 3. Yes, animals are way way tastier than plants. The other 2 are just myths or bullshit that made sense at some point perhaps, but in todays context dont make any sense whatsoever. 

WHY WHY??? you are a crazy vegetarian!!! 

No. You are ignorant or are choosing to ignore. I am not a crazy vegetarian.

1. Meat is bad for you - healthwise and wealthwise. The risks of eating animals are way way way higher. If its clean meat, you will have heart trouble. If not, you could get much worse stuff - refer Mad Cow disease and other terrible ailments.

2. Eating animals is not keeping the ecosystem is check. The ecosystem is so screwed as a result of factory farming that we all, repeat we all need to stop eating meat right now for another million years to bring it back to a point when we can talk about eating meat to maintain balance. Balance is when you hunt a chicken or a deer with bare hands, sometimes you win, sometimes the neighboring lion eats you. Balance is not defined as buying meat in a store.

Your thoughts?