Stomping out the Little Ones

I think the thing that continues to confuse me is the unquestioning wide spread support for the massive shift from local sustainable family farms to a market and profit driven agriculture system. And the media and modern discourse encourages people to not even notice it's happened. No more are sustainable practices where relationships from the farmers, to familys to earth to community matter. No more do values, health or ethics matter. All of this has been replaced by a capitalistic drive for more; more meat, more money, more efficiency and also more deceiving- no knowing where your meat came from, or what's in your meat, or the impact of it's production and consumption. Instead the truth is hidden or 'altered' so that we eat our meat thinking ' ohh those happy cows, like on the commercials, living the high life on those nice farms.' as we cut off another bite of our farm factory meat- not thinking about the true cost of it's being on our plates. We can hope that governments continue to and grow firmer in there enforcement of laws and legislation created to protect the environment and people from such atrocities. But we can't only leave change in the hands of governments and activist groups- we too need to change our consumption patterns and eat more ethically. Whether we are choosing to abstain from supporting the large scale farm corporations and thus not eat meat or choose into eating more ethically sound products that are better for the environment, our health, local economies and our which are also encouraging social change and raising awareness. We need to never lose hope that we each have power to create change- even if small!