Sure We Can, But Should We?

All of the reading and research I have done and subjected you all to leads me to this statement on American inventiveness and ingenuity - Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we SHOULD.

We have factory farms that grow chickens to maturity in something like 7 weeks when naturally it would take much longer. They grow so fast that many of them can't support their own weight and suffer broken bones which requires the farms to add more supplements to their feed to strengthen their bones. Supplements that are not tested on humans prior to entering our food supply. That, along with the arsenic that they feed to cut down parasites and the antibiotics to fight bacterial infections that would be a problem when they are packed like sardines in huge, dark barns is what they CAN do to move the program along faster, but SHOULD they?

The beef feed lots feed antibiotics as well along with bovine growth hormones and some cow parts as well. When did cows become cannibals anyway? This stuff is included again to get them to size sooner. We pay subsidies on corn crops so that they can feed them for less than it actually costs to produce the corn. Again all of this is possible so we CAN, but SHOULD we?

Our water rights are no longer rights as our government entities sell the rights to companies who sell the water back to us thus converting a right to a commodity. At the current rate the planet is desertizing we have about 50 years of clean water supply left so the question is just because we CAN pass these rights to companies SHOULD we?

We all thought the Wall Street mess was bad, but the exact same issues exist in our food and water supplies. The difference is that the Wall Street crap can make you broke but it isn't likely to poison you slowly with arsenic and render us unable to fight off infections because of the antibiotic saturation in our food, water and air.

It might be time to Occupy more than Wall Street.

We all know the problem with politics is the corruption in the system. I submit that there is not as chance of corruption if you take the money out of the system so here is my plan. A seat in government that pays $200,000 per year for 4 years would allow the candidates to raise and spend exactly $800,000 running for that office and NOT A PENNY MORE. We let them raise MILLIONS of dollars for an office that never pays that much. CAN we allow this? SHOULD we?

Until we take the ability for Tyson and Monsanto to buy our elections and "representatives" we will continue having places in need of occupation, a scary financial system, and a food supply that is increasingly unfit to eat. CAN we stand up for ourselves and demand safe food? SHOULD we?

Later I'll tell you how I really feel, but this is it for now.


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