She lives in a fairy tale
Somewhere too far for us to find
Forgotten the taste and smell
Of the world that she's left behind
It's all about the exposure the lens I told her
The angles were all wrong now
She's ripping wings off of butterflies
With her feet on the ground
And her head in the clouds
Well go get your shovel
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle
Ba da ba da ba
So one day he found her crying
Coiled up on the dirty ground
Her prince finally came to save her
And the rest you can figure out
But it was a trick
And the clock struck 12
Well make sure to build your house brick by boring brick
or the wolves gonna blow it down
With her feet on the ground
And her head in the clouds
Well go get your shovel
And we'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle
Well you built up a world of magic
Because your real life is tragic
Yeah you built up a world of magic
If it's not real
You can't see it with your eyes
You can't feel it with your heart
And I won't believe it
Cause if it's true
You can see it with your eyes
Even in the dark
And that's where I want to be, yeah
Go get your shovel
We'll dig a deep hole
To bury the castle, bury the castle
Ba da ba da ba...
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
formspring.me
What's your favorite genre of music?
I seriously love any kind of music I just mostly listen to folk/rock/pop
Friday, January 22, 2010
Do as I say, not as I do.
just because she doesn't like what she's hearing, that doesn't mean she has the right to fucking ground me.... wow very mature cunt!
seriously she's acting like a fucking 5 year old if she doesn't like what she hears or if some one tells her that she's wrong... she'll keep fighting until there's some one superior to her to tell her otherwise!!
and she fucking would scream at me if I would ever do that to her!!
she has taken away my last joy.... having the ability to create how and what I want to create. it's like she has fun doing this. oh, yeah and she's not taking it away cause I was disobedient, or did some thing bad, she did it just because she thought it was the best thing to do....?? wtf??! I am totally fucking done with her illogical explanations for her actions, I am done with her reasoning’s and how she thinks she is superior over me just because she has more years on her then me!! age only goes so far; you can be wise, but not from age, but just because you know how the fuck this screwed up system works, and how to get around. People can be pretty stupid, not because their young, but because their just themselves.
seriously she's acting like a fucking 5 year old if she doesn't like what she hears or if some one tells her that she's wrong... she'll keep fighting until there's some one superior to her to tell her otherwise!!
and she fucking would scream at me if I would ever do that to her!!
she has taken away my last joy.... having the ability to create how and what I want to create. it's like she has fun doing this. oh, yeah and she's not taking it away cause I was disobedient, or did some thing bad, she did it just because she thought it was the best thing to do....?? wtf??! I am totally fucking done with her illogical explanations for her actions, I am done with her reasoning’s and how she thinks she is superior over me just because she has more years on her then me!! age only goes so far; you can be wise, but not from age, but just because you know how the fuck this screwed up system works, and how to get around. People can be pretty stupid, not because their young, but because their just themselves.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
yummy tummie egg roll!!
I love my new eating habits!!
I feel much healthier and every thing tastes better too!! :D
I feel much healthier and every thing tastes better too!! :D
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
love is difficult
Why do I always have to fall for the people that are definitely not interested in me, and that are straight??! wtf seriously, this sucks!!
EMILY!! <3 :D
haha I totally had 2 déjà vu’s today!! lol it was soo weird! :P
&& Emily came over and I’ve never felt more understood in my entire life!! bahahaha (: She’s like so easy to get along with and so sweat :D I hope that we can totally hang out again soon! (:
&& Emily came over and I’ve never felt more understood in my entire life!! bahahaha (: She’s like so easy to get along with and so sweat :D I hope that we can totally hang out again soon! (:
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Hollywood Unites for Haiti
I know all of you out there are thinking "aw that's a shame, I wish I could help!!" about to earth quake that happened yesterday, well please go to this site to help the people in need in Haiti.
http://www.hufh.org/
there's nothing more I could say or do, other then to ask you to just at least go to the site and check it out.
please && thank you.
xoxoxoxo to all the people in Haiti
http://www.hufh.org/
there's nothing more I could say or do, other then to ask you to just at least go to the site and check it out.
please && thank you.
xoxoxoxo to all the people in Haiti
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
GSA
I just had GSA tonight (Gay Straight Alliance)it was pretty fun, even though I was uber quiet most of the time... lol
I'll post more stuff on here telling more about it all, so people can be aware of the mean and cruel things people do to other people just because they are different. Oh yeah and the meetings aren't just about gay pride and shit like that their about all people that get bullied, so its for every one, not just for gays.
I'll post more stuff on here telling more about it all, so people can be aware of the mean and cruel things people do to other people just because they are different. Oh yeah and the meetings aren't just about gay pride and shit like that their about all people that get bullied, so its for every one, not just for gays.
being a veg head is hard!!
I hate that my parents are yelling at me and forcing me to eat meat, but I'm refusing cause they can't force me to do some thing that will make me through up!!
Like wtf if you love me, (mom...) then you would support me, and try to at least hear my logic, instead of completely blowing it off, and saying I'm stupid pretty much. Seriously who's the grown up here??!
Like wtf if you love me, (mom...) then you would support me, and try to at least hear my logic, instead of completely blowing it off, and saying I'm stupid pretty much. Seriously who's the grown up here??!
Vegetarians Are Healthier, Smarter, and Often Richer
I will start by admitting that I’m not a vegetarian. I eat very little meat nowadays, but I am not sure that I will ever be pure vegetarian.
So relax. This article is not going to be preachy; what you eat is your business.
This article is about explaining some true, but mind-boggling statistics that American vegetarians are super people. One article from Vegetarian Times suggests that vegetarians are smarter, healthier, and richer:
Furthermore, statistics suggest this educated, health-conscious, rebellious and relatively affluent contingent fits the traditional vegetarian profile.
I’ve seen many other articles, and heard these statistics countless times from my vegetarian and vegan friends. It’s almost always coupled with the message that I should become vegetarian to attain these qualities.
At a minimum, these numbers got me curious.
Are plants and vegetables truly “brain food” that help all aspects of your life?
Yes! It’s a smart and healthy diet, you stupid flesh-eater.
Vegetarian organizations are quick to reply yes. They prominently advertise the good results to promote the diet. The animal-rights group PETA has a website GoVeg.com that claims a plant diet is the best thing for kids:
Studies have shown that vegetarian kids grow taller and have higher IQs than their classmates, and they are at a reduced risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other diseases in the long run.
It makes meat-eating parents sound irresponsible.
And there’s more from PETA. Last week, star pitcher Roger Clemens denied using performance-enhancing drugs. To capitalize on the media-frenzy, PETA wrote a letter to Clemens suggesting that he show his devotion to a drug-free life by going vegetarian.
The letter goes on to suggest that the diet change could improve his performance:
Carl Lewis (named “Olympian of the Century” by S.I.) says the best year of his track career was when he went vegan, and Salim Stoudamire of the Atlanta Hawks says his game has gotten a huge boost since he cut meat, eggs, and dairy products out of his diet. Star Ultimate Fighter Mac Danzig is also vegan; perhaps he could give you some nutrition tips so that you’ll be ready for your next encounter with Mike Piazza. And if you ditch all the cholesterol and saturated fat in meat now, you’ll be less likely to keel over from a stroke when testifying in front of Congress.
All told, it appears that becoming vegetarian causes better health, improves brain functioning, and makes you an Olympic athlete.
But then why isn’t everyone vegetarian?
Is it the chicken or the egg?
Only about 3-4% of Americans identify themselves as never eating meat, poultry, or seafood, according to a poll conducted for the Vegetarian Resource Group in 2003. That’s a pretty small group.
Therefore, most people are born into homes that eat meat. To me, this situation suggests that the people who became vegetarian had to be independent, if not rebellious.
People who changed as kids would need parents tolerant to accept this choice. It might help if the parents were affluent enough to accommodate a different lifestyle—think Chelsea Clinton.
On a theoretical level, it is not necessarily true that being vegetarian causes the good attributes. It could very well be the opposite: it is healthier, smarter, and richer people who often choose to go vegetarian.
The technical term for the bias is self-selection.
Recently, there has been one study from Southampton University that showed vegetarians were smarter and healthier than non-vegetarians. The study even controlled for the self-selection bias, as reported in the BBC News:
A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.
…
Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher occupational social class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.
Is this a victory for vegetarians?
Well, not quite yet. The problem is that a lot of the people who claimed to be vegetarian admitted that they ate chicken and fish!
So, then, are the true vegetarians smarter than these fakers?
There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but who reported eating fish or chicken.
I guess it’s not being vegetarian, but saying that you are vegetarian that matters.
As far as I can tell, there is insufficient evidence to determine if smarter people become vegetarian or vice versa. It’s a classic chicken and egg problem.
Will Friday classes reduce drinking?
Any time you see a statistic, you should wonder—is it really the result of causation, or could self-selection confound the results?
This week, I read that the University of Iowa wants to reduce Thursday night drinking by introducing more classes on Friday (from WSJ):
What to do about college students who drink heavily on Thursday night? Put a price on their heads.
University of Iowa officials are so concerned about binge drinking among students, they’re offering departments extra funds to hold more classes on Fridays. The spur for that? A study that found early Friday classes reduced heavy drinking the night before.
Early Friday classes caused people to drink less the night before?
That’s wild!
I can imagine the study. They asked a bunch of college kids how much they drank on Thursday nights, and also asked whether they had early Friday class. Someone discovered that people with early Friday class did not drink as much on Thursday.
(In fact, this appears to be exactly how the study was administered—through self-reported web surveys. Here is the summary of the study conducted at the University of Missouri.)
But where’s the causation?
It’s completely possible that Thursday drinkers chose not to have class on Friday as much as possible. This would mean Friday classes would be populated with people who choose not to drink.
I remember engineering my college schedule so that I wouldn’t have to wake up in the early morning. And so did a bunch of my smarter friends. Does that mean later classes help students be smart?
Okay, so I’m slightly exaggerating for sake of argument. In respectable studies, experimenters try to control for self-selection. There are ways. For instance, you could track the same student over four years and compare drinking habits from one semester to another. Then, you would see if having Friday class affected the amount of Thursday night. By tracking individuals over time instead of comparing two groups from a single time period, you control for the self-selection bias.
The problem is that you might not have a large sample size. The alcohol study did address self-selection, and here is what the abstract says about that:
Ancillary analyses based on the subset of students who showed within-subject variability in Friday classes across semesters (i.e., had both early and late or no Friday classes) produced findings similar to those based on the entire sample.
The controlled data do suggest a causal relationship, but again, there is probably not that much data.
(And you also have to hope that students reported their drinking habits accurately.)
Nevertheless, the study was convincing enough that the University of Iowa is willing to try a new program. It will pay departments $20 for each student in each class that is changed to include a Friday class. This could mean huge money for classes with thousands enrolled.
The new policy is likely to create more Friday classes. And marginally, yes, I think that could influence responsible students to curb their drinking.
But we’ll see if the policy changes wide-scale behavior of Thursday night drinking. The policy might just cause more people to miss class on Friday, or increase in-class hangovers.
And why not look at other methods, too? If the University of Iowa serious about alcohol, it could curb drinking by looking at other behavior that is associated with less alcohol.
I can see it now: University fights drinking by banning meat because vegetarians tend to drink less.
check out her blog!!HERE
So relax. This article is not going to be preachy; what you eat is your business.
This article is about explaining some true, but mind-boggling statistics that American vegetarians are super people. One article from Vegetarian Times suggests that vegetarians are smarter, healthier, and richer:
Furthermore, statistics suggest this educated, health-conscious, rebellious and relatively affluent contingent fits the traditional vegetarian profile.
I’ve seen many other articles, and heard these statistics countless times from my vegetarian and vegan friends. It’s almost always coupled with the message that I should become vegetarian to attain these qualities.
At a minimum, these numbers got me curious.
Are plants and vegetables truly “brain food” that help all aspects of your life?
Yes! It’s a smart and healthy diet, you stupid flesh-eater.
Vegetarian organizations are quick to reply yes. They prominently advertise the good results to promote the diet. The animal-rights group PETA has a website GoVeg.com that claims a plant diet is the best thing for kids:
Studies have shown that vegetarian kids grow taller and have higher IQs than their classmates, and they are at a reduced risk for heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and other diseases in the long run.
It makes meat-eating parents sound irresponsible.
And there’s more from PETA. Last week, star pitcher Roger Clemens denied using performance-enhancing drugs. To capitalize on the media-frenzy, PETA wrote a letter to Clemens suggesting that he show his devotion to a drug-free life by going vegetarian.
The letter goes on to suggest that the diet change could improve his performance:
Carl Lewis (named “Olympian of the Century” by S.I.) says the best year of his track career was when he went vegan, and Salim Stoudamire of the Atlanta Hawks says his game has gotten a huge boost since he cut meat, eggs, and dairy products out of his diet. Star Ultimate Fighter Mac Danzig is also vegan; perhaps he could give you some nutrition tips so that you’ll be ready for your next encounter with Mike Piazza. And if you ditch all the cholesterol and saturated fat in meat now, you’ll be less likely to keel over from a stroke when testifying in front of Congress.
All told, it appears that becoming vegetarian causes better health, improves brain functioning, and makes you an Olympic athlete.
But then why isn’t everyone vegetarian?
Is it the chicken or the egg?
Only about 3-4% of Americans identify themselves as never eating meat, poultry, or seafood, according to a poll conducted for the Vegetarian Resource Group in 2003. That’s a pretty small group.
Therefore, most people are born into homes that eat meat. To me, this situation suggests that the people who became vegetarian had to be independent, if not rebellious.
People who changed as kids would need parents tolerant to accept this choice. It might help if the parents were affluent enough to accommodate a different lifestyle—think Chelsea Clinton.
On a theoretical level, it is not necessarily true that being vegetarian causes the good attributes. It could very well be the opposite: it is healthier, smarter, and richer people who often choose to go vegetarian.
The technical term for the bias is self-selection.
Recently, there has been one study from Southampton University that showed vegetarians were smarter and healthier than non-vegetarians. The study even controlled for the self-selection bias, as reported in the BBC News:
A Southampton University team found those who were vegetarian by 30 had recorded five IQ points more on average at the age of 10.
…
Researchers said the findings were partly related to better education and higher occupational social class, but it remained statistically significant after adjusting for these factors.
Is this a victory for vegetarians?
Well, not quite yet. The problem is that a lot of the people who claimed to be vegetarian admitted that they ate chicken and fish!
So, then, are the true vegetarians smarter than these fakers?
There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but who reported eating fish or chicken.
I guess it’s not being vegetarian, but saying that you are vegetarian that matters.
As far as I can tell, there is insufficient evidence to determine if smarter people become vegetarian or vice versa. It’s a classic chicken and egg problem.
Will Friday classes reduce drinking?
Any time you see a statistic, you should wonder—is it really the result of causation, or could self-selection confound the results?
This week, I read that the University of Iowa wants to reduce Thursday night drinking by introducing more classes on Friday (from WSJ):
What to do about college students who drink heavily on Thursday night? Put a price on their heads.
University of Iowa officials are so concerned about binge drinking among students, they’re offering departments extra funds to hold more classes on Fridays. The spur for that? A study that found early Friday classes reduced heavy drinking the night before.
Early Friday classes caused people to drink less the night before?
That’s wild!
I can imagine the study. They asked a bunch of college kids how much they drank on Thursday nights, and also asked whether they had early Friday class. Someone discovered that people with early Friday class did not drink as much on Thursday.
(In fact, this appears to be exactly how the study was administered—through self-reported web surveys. Here is the summary of the study conducted at the University of Missouri.)
But where’s the causation?
It’s completely possible that Thursday drinkers chose not to have class on Friday as much as possible. This would mean Friday classes would be populated with people who choose not to drink.
I remember engineering my college schedule so that I wouldn’t have to wake up in the early morning. And so did a bunch of my smarter friends. Does that mean later classes help students be smart?
Okay, so I’m slightly exaggerating for sake of argument. In respectable studies, experimenters try to control for self-selection. There are ways. For instance, you could track the same student over four years and compare drinking habits from one semester to another. Then, you would see if having Friday class affected the amount of Thursday night. By tracking individuals over time instead of comparing two groups from a single time period, you control for the self-selection bias.
The problem is that you might not have a large sample size. The alcohol study did address self-selection, and here is what the abstract says about that:
Ancillary analyses based on the subset of students who showed within-subject variability in Friday classes across semesters (i.e., had both early and late or no Friday classes) produced findings similar to those based on the entire sample.
The controlled data do suggest a causal relationship, but again, there is probably not that much data.
(And you also have to hope that students reported their drinking habits accurately.)
Nevertheless, the study was convincing enough that the University of Iowa is willing to try a new program. It will pay departments $20 for each student in each class that is changed to include a Friday class. This could mean huge money for classes with thousands enrolled.
The new policy is likely to create more Friday classes. And marginally, yes, I think that could influence responsible students to curb their drinking.
But we’ll see if the policy changes wide-scale behavior of Thursday night drinking. The policy might just cause more people to miss class on Friday, or increase in-class hangovers.
And why not look at other methods, too? If the University of Iowa serious about alcohol, it could curb drinking by looking at other behavior that is associated with less alcohol.
I can see it now: University fights drinking by banning meat because vegetarians tend to drink less.
check out her blog!!HERE
Monday, January 11, 2010
little moments
okay so some thing really weird happened, lol
so my mom was making some thing with tuna in it, and i was makin some easy mac lol and i was eating the mac & cheese, and then the tuna and I'm like, "I'm gunna mix this together to see what it tasts like" and it tasted pretty good,
then my mom was all like "I use to to put my tuna in mac and cheese when I was a kid!!" idk it was a weird moment, a moment that you finnally find out that your turning out just like your mother >.< lol
so my mom was making some thing with tuna in it, and i was makin some easy mac lol and i was eating the mac & cheese, and then the tuna and I'm like, "I'm gunna mix this together to see what it tasts like" and it tasted pretty good,
then my mom was all like "I use to to put my tuna in mac and cheese when I was a kid!!" idk it was a weird moment, a moment that you finnally find out that your turning out just like your mother >.< lol
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Evil Bible
Check this out!!
http://www.evilbible.com/
I do not have any hatred towards Christens or Catholics; this just shows how evil the bible really is. People may say “God” is merciful and loving, but then why dose it say the things in the bible that are completely and utterly disgusting? And why didn’t he just write the bible him self instead of making humans do it??
http://www.evilbible.com/
I do not have any hatred towards Christens or Catholics; this just shows how evil the bible really is. People may say “God” is merciful and loving, but then why dose it say the things in the bible that are completely and utterly disgusting? And why didn’t he just write the bible him self instead of making humans do it??
How to Win an Argument with a Meat Eater
How to Win an Argument with a Meat Eater
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
3. How to Win an Argument with a Meat-Eater
While their numbers are rapidly growing, vegetarians are still a minority, and it is not unusual to be confronted with a meat-eater who not only protects his own right to eat flesh, but argues aggressively that vegetarians should join him in his carnivorous diet. Carnivores may regard nonmeat-eaters as a strange lot who munch on "rabbit food," and whose diet doesn't have the substance to make them strong, productive human beings. The following presentation is designed to turn the tables on such discussions by showing the devastating effects of meat-eating both on individuals and on our planet. It is based on a richly informative poster entitled, "How to win an argument with a meat-eater," published by Earthsave, an organization based in Felton, California, giving facts from Pulitzer Prize nominee John Robbins' book Diet for a New America. Below are eight separate arguments against meat-eating and in favor of a vegetarian diet.
1. The Hunger Argument against meat-eating
Much of the world's massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating. The reasons: 1) livestock pasture needs cut drastically into land which could otherwise be used to grow food; 2) vast quantities of food which could feed humans is fed to livestock raised to produce meat.
This year alone, twenty million people worldwide will die as a result of malnutrition. One child dies of malnutrition every 2.3 seconds. One hundred million people could be adequately fed using the land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by a mere 10%.
Twenty percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is eaten by people. Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown in the U.S. is eaten by livestock. The percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.
One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six percent of all U.S. farmland is devoted to beef production, and to produce each pound of beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain and soybeans, which could be used to feed the hungry.
2. The Environmental Argument against meat-eating
Many of the world's massive environmental problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating, including global warming, loss of topsoil, loss of rainforests and species extinction.
The temperature of the earth is rising. This global warming, known as "the greenhouse effect," results primarily from carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas. Three times more fossil fuels must be burned to produce a meat-centered diet than for a meat-free diet. If people stopped eating meat, the threat of higher world temperatures would be vastly diminished.
Trees, and especially the old-growth forests, are essential to the survival of the planet. Their destruction is a major cause of global warming and top soil loss. Both of these effects lead to diminished food production. Meat-eating is the number one driving force for the destruction of these forests. Two-hundred and sixty million acres of U.S. forestland has been cleared for cropland to produce the meat-centered diet. Fifty-five square feet of tropical rainforest is consumed to produce every quarter-pound of rainforest beef. An alarming 75% of all U.S. topsoil has been lost to date. Eighty-five percent of this loss is directly related to livestock raising.
Another devastating result of deforestation is the loss of plant and animal species. Each year 1,000 species are eliminated due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses. The rate is growing yearly.
To keep up with U.S. consumption, 300 million pounds of meat are imported annually from Central and South America. This economic incentive impels these nations to cut down their forests to make more pastureland. The short-term gain ignores the long-term, irreparable harm to the earth's ecosystem. In effect these countries are being drained of their resources to put meat on the table of Americans while 75% of all Central American children under the age of five are undernourished.
3. The Cancer Argument against meat-eating
Those who eat flesh are far more likely to contract cancer than those following a vegetarian diet.
The risk of contracting breast cancer is 3.8 times greater for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week; 2.8 times greater for women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week; and 3.25 greater for women who eat butter and cheese 2 to 4 times a week as compared to once a week.
The risk of fatal ovarian cancer is three times greater for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week as compared with less than once a week.
The risk of fatal prostate cancer is 3.6 times greater for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily as compared with sparingly or not at all.
4. The Cholesterol Argument against meat-eating
Here are facts showing that: 1) U.S. physicians are not sufficiently trained in the importance of the relation of diet to health; 2) meat-eaters ingest excessive amounts of cholesterol, making them dangerously susceptible to heart attacks.
It is strange, but true that U.S. physicians are as a rule ill-educated in the single most important factor of health, namely diet and nutrition. Of the 125 medical schools in the U.S., only 30 require their students to take a course in nutrition. The average nutrition training received by the average U.S. physician during four years in school is only 2.5 hours. Thus doctors in the U.S. are ill-equipped to advise their patients in minimizing foods, such as meat, that contain excessive amounts of cholesterol and are known causes of heart attack.
Heart attack is the most common cause of death in the U.S., killing one person every 45 seconds. The male meat-eater's risk of death from heart attack is 50%. The risk to men who eats no meat is 15%. Reducing one's consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10% reduces the risk of heart attack by 10%. Completely eliminating these products from one's diet reduces the risk of heart attack by 90%.
The average cholesterol consumption of a meat-centered diet is 210 milligrams per day. The chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol is 210 milligrams daily is greater than 50%.
5. The Natural Resources Argument against meat-eating
The world's natural resources are being rapidly depleted as a result of meat-eating.
Raising livestock for their meat is a very inefficient way of generating food. Pound for pound, far more resources must be expended to produce meat than to produce grains, fruits and vegetables. For example, more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S. is consumed in livestock production. The amount of water used in production of the average cow is sufficient to float a destroyer (a large naval ship). While 25 gallons of water are needed to produce a pound of wheat, 5,000 gallons are needed to produce a pound of California beef. That same 5,000 gallons of water can produce 200 pounds of wheat. If this water cost were not subsidized by the government, the cheapest hamburger meat would cost more than $35 per pound.
Meat-eating is devouring oil reserves at an alarming rate. It takes nearly 78 calories of fossil fuel (oil, natural gas, etc.) energy to produce one calory of beef protein and only 2 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calory of soybean. If every human ate a meat-centered diet, the world's known oil reserves would last a mere 13 years. They would last 260 years if humans stopped eating meat altogether. That is 20 times longer, giving humanity ample time to develop alternative energy sources.
Thirty-three percent of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by the U.S. are devoted to the production of livestock, as compared with 2% to produce a complete vegetarian diet.
6. The Antibiotic Argument against meat-eating
Here are facts showing the dangers of eating meat because of the large amounts of antibiotics fed to livestock to control staphylococci (commonly called staph infections), which are becoming immune to these drugs at an alarming rate.
The animals that are being raised for meat in the United States are diseased. The livestock industry attempts to control this disease by feeding the animals antibiotics. Huge quantities of drugs go for this purpose. Of all antibiotics used in the U.S., 55% are fed to livestock.
But this is only partially effective because the bacteria that cause disease are becoming immune to the antibiotics. The percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin, for example, has grown from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988. These antibiotics and-or the bacteria they are intended to destroy reside in the meat that goes to market.
It is not healthy for humans to consume this meat. The response of the European Economic Community to the routine feeding of antibiotics to U.S. livestock was to ban the importation of U.S. meat. European buyers do not want to expose consumers to this serious health hazard. By comparison, U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries gave their full and complete support to the routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock, turning a blind eye to the threat of disease to the consumer.
7. The Pesticide Argument against meat-eating
Unknown to most meat-eaters, U.S.-produced meat contains dangerously high quantities of deadly pesticides.
The common belief is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture protects consumers' health through regular and thorough meat inspection. In reality, fewer than one out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues.
That these chemicals are indeed ingested by the meat-eater is proven by the following facts:
Ninety-nine percent of U.S. mother's milk contains significant levels of DDT. In stark contrast, only 8% of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT. This shows that the primary source of DDT is the meat ingested by the mothers.
Contamination of breast milk due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products found in meat-eating mothers versus nonmeat-eating mothers is 35 times higher.
The amount of the pesticide Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant is 9 times the permissible level.
8. The Ethical Argument against meat-eating
Many of those who have adopted a vegetarian diet have done so because of the ethical argument, either from reading about or personally experiencing what goes on daily at any one of the thousands of slaughterhouses in the U.S. and other countries, where animals suffer the cruel process of forced confinement, manipulation and violent death. Their pain and terror is beyond calculation.
The slaughterhouse is the final stop for animals raised for their flesh. These ghastly places, while little known to most meat-eaters, process enormous numbers of animals each years. In the U.S. alone, 660,000 animals are killed for meat every hour. A surprising quantity of meat is consumed by the meat-eater. The average percapita consumption of meat in the U.S., Canada and Australia is 200 pounds per year! The average American consumes in a 72-year lifetime approximately 11 cattle, 3 lambs and sheep, 23 hogs, 45 turkeys, 1,100 chickens and 862 pounds of fish! Bon appetite!
People who come in contact with slaughterhouses cannot help but be affected by what they see and hear. Those living nearby must daily experience the screams of terror and anger of the animals led to slaughter. Those working inside must also see and participate in the crimes of mayhem and murder. Most who choose this line of work are not on the job for long. Of all occupations in the U.S., slaughterhouse worker has the highest turnover rate. It also has the highest rate of on-the-job injury.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
3. How to Win an Argument with a Meat-Eater
While their numbers are rapidly growing, vegetarians are still a minority, and it is not unusual to be confronted with a meat-eater who not only protects his own right to eat flesh, but argues aggressively that vegetarians should join him in his carnivorous diet. Carnivores may regard nonmeat-eaters as a strange lot who munch on "rabbit food," and whose diet doesn't have the substance to make them strong, productive human beings. The following presentation is designed to turn the tables on such discussions by showing the devastating effects of meat-eating both on individuals and on our planet. It is based on a richly informative poster entitled, "How to win an argument with a meat-eater," published by Earthsave, an organization based in Felton, California, giving facts from Pulitzer Prize nominee John Robbins' book Diet for a New America. Below are eight separate arguments against meat-eating and in favor of a vegetarian diet.
1. The Hunger Argument against meat-eating
Much of the world's massive hunger problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating. The reasons: 1) livestock pasture needs cut drastically into land which could otherwise be used to grow food; 2) vast quantities of food which could feed humans is fed to livestock raised to produce meat.
This year alone, twenty million people worldwide will die as a result of malnutrition. One child dies of malnutrition every 2.3 seconds. One hundred million people could be adequately fed using the land freed if Americans reduced their intake of meat by a mere 10%.
Twenty percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is eaten by people. Eighty percent of the corn and 95% of the oats grown in the U.S. is eaten by livestock. The percentage of protein wasted by cycling grain through livestock is calculated by experts as 90%.
One acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, or 250 pounds of beef. Fifty-six percent of all U.S. farmland is devoted to beef production, and to produce each pound of beef requires 16 pounds of edible grain and soybeans, which could be used to feed the hungry.
2. The Environmental Argument against meat-eating
Many of the world's massive environmental problems could be solved by the reduction or elimination of meat-eating, including global warming, loss of topsoil, loss of rainforests and species extinction.
The temperature of the earth is rising. This global warming, known as "the greenhouse effect," results primarily from carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas. Three times more fossil fuels must be burned to produce a meat-centered diet than for a meat-free diet. If people stopped eating meat, the threat of higher world temperatures would be vastly diminished.
Trees, and especially the old-growth forests, are essential to the survival of the planet. Their destruction is a major cause of global warming and top soil loss. Both of these effects lead to diminished food production. Meat-eating is the number one driving force for the destruction of these forests. Two-hundred and sixty million acres of U.S. forestland has been cleared for cropland to produce the meat-centered diet. Fifty-five square feet of tropical rainforest is consumed to produce every quarter-pound of rainforest beef. An alarming 75% of all U.S. topsoil has been lost to date. Eighty-five percent of this loss is directly related to livestock raising.
Another devastating result of deforestation is the loss of plant and animal species. Each year 1,000 species are eliminated due to destruction of tropical rainforests for meat grazing and other uses. The rate is growing yearly.
To keep up with U.S. consumption, 300 million pounds of meat are imported annually from Central and South America. This economic incentive impels these nations to cut down their forests to make more pastureland. The short-term gain ignores the long-term, irreparable harm to the earth's ecosystem. In effect these countries are being drained of their resources to put meat on the table of Americans while 75% of all Central American children under the age of five are undernourished.
3. The Cancer Argument against meat-eating
Those who eat flesh are far more likely to contract cancer than those following a vegetarian diet.
The risk of contracting breast cancer is 3.8 times greater for women who eat meat daily compared to less than once a week; 2.8 times greater for women who eat eggs daily compared to once a week; and 3.25 greater for women who eat butter and cheese 2 to 4 times a week as compared to once a week.
The risk of fatal ovarian cancer is three times greater for women who eat eggs 3 or more times a week as compared with less than once a week.
The risk of fatal prostate cancer is 3.6 times greater for men who consume meat, cheese, eggs and milk daily as compared with sparingly or not at all.
4. The Cholesterol Argument against meat-eating
Here are facts showing that: 1) U.S. physicians are not sufficiently trained in the importance of the relation of diet to health; 2) meat-eaters ingest excessive amounts of cholesterol, making them dangerously susceptible to heart attacks.
It is strange, but true that U.S. physicians are as a rule ill-educated in the single most important factor of health, namely diet and nutrition. Of the 125 medical schools in the U.S., only 30 require their students to take a course in nutrition. The average nutrition training received by the average U.S. physician during four years in school is only 2.5 hours. Thus doctors in the U.S. are ill-equipped to advise their patients in minimizing foods, such as meat, that contain excessive amounts of cholesterol and are known causes of heart attack.
Heart attack is the most common cause of death in the U.S., killing one person every 45 seconds. The male meat-eater's risk of death from heart attack is 50%. The risk to men who eats no meat is 15%. Reducing one's consumption of meat, dairy and eggs by 10% reduces the risk of heart attack by 10%. Completely eliminating these products from one's diet reduces the risk of heart attack by 90%.
The average cholesterol consumption of a meat-centered diet is 210 milligrams per day. The chance of dying from heart disease if you are male and your blood cholesterol is 210 milligrams daily is greater than 50%.
5. The Natural Resources Argument against meat-eating
The world's natural resources are being rapidly depleted as a result of meat-eating.
Raising livestock for their meat is a very inefficient way of generating food. Pound for pound, far more resources must be expended to produce meat than to produce grains, fruits and vegetables. For example, more than half of all water used for all purposes in the U.S. is consumed in livestock production. The amount of water used in production of the average cow is sufficient to float a destroyer (a large naval ship). While 25 gallons of water are needed to produce a pound of wheat, 5,000 gallons are needed to produce a pound of California beef. That same 5,000 gallons of water can produce 200 pounds of wheat. If this water cost were not subsidized by the government, the cheapest hamburger meat would cost more than $35 per pound.
Meat-eating is devouring oil reserves at an alarming rate. It takes nearly 78 calories of fossil fuel (oil, natural gas, etc.) energy to produce one calory of beef protein and only 2 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calory of soybean. If every human ate a meat-centered diet, the world's known oil reserves would last a mere 13 years. They would last 260 years if humans stopped eating meat altogether. That is 20 times longer, giving humanity ample time to develop alternative energy sources.
Thirty-three percent of all raw materials (base products of farming, forestry and mining, including fossil fuels) consumed by the U.S. are devoted to the production of livestock, as compared with 2% to produce a complete vegetarian diet.
6. The Antibiotic Argument against meat-eating
Here are facts showing the dangers of eating meat because of the large amounts of antibiotics fed to livestock to control staphylococci (commonly called staph infections), which are becoming immune to these drugs at an alarming rate.
The animals that are being raised for meat in the United States are diseased. The livestock industry attempts to control this disease by feeding the animals antibiotics. Huge quantities of drugs go for this purpose. Of all antibiotics used in the U.S., 55% are fed to livestock.
But this is only partially effective because the bacteria that cause disease are becoming immune to the antibiotics. The percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin, for example, has grown from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988. These antibiotics and-or the bacteria they are intended to destroy reside in the meat that goes to market.
It is not healthy for humans to consume this meat. The response of the European Economic Community to the routine feeding of antibiotics to U.S. livestock was to ban the importation of U.S. meat. European buyers do not want to expose consumers to this serious health hazard. By comparison, U.S. meat and pharmaceutical industries gave their full and complete support to the routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock, turning a blind eye to the threat of disease to the consumer.
7. The Pesticide Argument against meat-eating
Unknown to most meat-eaters, U.S.-produced meat contains dangerously high quantities of deadly pesticides.
The common belief is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture protects consumers' health through regular and thorough meat inspection. In reality, fewer than one out of every 250,000 slaughtered animals is tested for toxic chemical residues.
That these chemicals are indeed ingested by the meat-eater is proven by the following facts:
Ninety-nine percent of U.S. mother's milk contains significant levels of DDT. In stark contrast, only 8% of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT. This shows that the primary source of DDT is the meat ingested by the mothers.
Contamination of breast milk due to chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides in animal products found in meat-eating mothers versus nonmeat-eating mothers is 35 times higher.
The amount of the pesticide Dieldrin ingested by the average breast-fed American infant is 9 times the permissible level.
8. The Ethical Argument against meat-eating
Many of those who have adopted a vegetarian diet have done so because of the ethical argument, either from reading about or personally experiencing what goes on daily at any one of the thousands of slaughterhouses in the U.S. and other countries, where animals suffer the cruel process of forced confinement, manipulation and violent death. Their pain and terror is beyond calculation.
The slaughterhouse is the final stop for animals raised for their flesh. These ghastly places, while little known to most meat-eaters, process enormous numbers of animals each years. In the U.S. alone, 660,000 animals are killed for meat every hour. A surprising quantity of meat is consumed by the meat-eater. The average percapita consumption of meat in the U.S., Canada and Australia is 200 pounds per year! The average American consumes in a 72-year lifetime approximately 11 cattle, 3 lambs and sheep, 23 hogs, 45 turkeys, 1,100 chickens and 862 pounds of fish! Bon appetite!
People who come in contact with slaughterhouses cannot help but be affected by what they see and hear. Those living nearby must daily experience the screams of terror and anger of the animals led to slaughter. Those working inside must also see and participate in the crimes of mayhem and murder. Most who choose this line of work are not on the job for long. Of all occupations in the U.S., slaughterhouse worker has the highest turnover rate. It also has the highest rate of on-the-job injury.
to be young
lmao me about 3 years ago haha I still had braces >.<
me & Ashley at my house, I'm pretending to be Hitler getting high lol
Saturday, January 9, 2010
speak out
thank you some one for finally saying this!!
cheack out Onision's page!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/OnisionSpeaks
http://www.youtube.com/user/onision?blend=1&ob=4
cheack out Onision's page!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/OnisionSpeaks
http://www.youtube.com/user/onision?blend=1&ob=4
Friday, January 8, 2010
another lonley day
"It takes one beer to get drunk, I've had three beers... I'm wasted!!" -Dad lmfao
that's the quote for today :P
&& any ways... today was kinda sucky, but I feel uber smart, well not uber, uber smart, just pretty smart... (:
I'm going to be doing my home work, and studying for finals =/ I hate it!!
I'll probably post another one later, cause I saw some thing random or some thing happened and I want to vent and talk about it, so... yeah ^^
that's the quote for today :P
&& any ways... today was kinda sucky, but I feel uber smart, well not uber, uber smart, just pretty smart... (:
I'm going to be doing my home work, and studying for finals =/ I hate it!!
I'll probably post another one later, cause I saw some thing random or some thing happened and I want to vent and talk about it, so... yeah ^^
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I am Legend
Will Smith did an AMAZING job in this movie!!
if you haven't seen it yet then ur stupid,
but I definitely recommend you watch it!! (:
compliments
You know how teacher are all like “oh yeah your daughter/son is doing so well in class, she’s actually my number one student” …ect. but they don’t give you any compliments right to your face they always tell that to ur mom/dad/guardian…? Well today a teacher funnily said it to my face! Well make that two teachers! :D I just hate it when people give you compliments but not to your face… its like talking shit behind your back, I really rather them say it to my face so I know what the fuck is up cause I can’t read minds you know…
But yeah, any ways like I was saying. My Music Appreciation teacher BJ lol we call him that cause it’s his initials and its funny cause… never mind but any ways him and my Choir teacher were being sooo nice to me and giving me compliments and saying how good I was doing cause I stayed after school to talk with BJ haha cause I needed to talk to him (another story) and the Choir teacher walked in and we just started talking and she was like you should come back into choir and I asked her if she was directing or helping with the musical in the school that coming up… ect. and they were just so nice to me, not once in my whole life has a teacher reached out like that to me, or to any one that I’ve seen for that matter. So I’m just uber happy that, that happened today and that it was them, cause I needed that little “pick me upper” (: idk I guess its just the little things in life that make your day!
&& also my friend Elena was all like “I like the kind of pretty where you don’t have to wear make up always, like you” and I’m like the only people that ever compliment me like that is old people and my mom lamo :P every one now days have to be perfect and kinda fake they wear make up fake tan their skin, which I don’t even get that since it looks orange and nothing like a tan… but any ways. And people just always do these things to make them selves look better so guys will drool over them, when really that’s not really a compliment all that the guys want to do is get in their pants, its not like “oh your pretty, can I be your boyfriend” kind of compliment it’s a “oh ur hott, can I fuck you?” compliment… its degrading and icky :( for me showing off ur body is okay to me, our body’s are beautiful, there art. but saying “yeah lets fuck” its disgusting!!
But yeah, any ways like I was saying. My Music Appreciation teacher BJ lol we call him that cause it’s his initials and its funny cause… never mind but any ways him and my Choir teacher were being sooo nice to me and giving me compliments and saying how good I was doing cause I stayed after school to talk with BJ haha cause I needed to talk to him (another story) and the Choir teacher walked in and we just started talking and she was like you should come back into choir and I asked her if she was directing or helping with the musical in the school that coming up… ect. and they were just so nice to me, not once in my whole life has a teacher reached out like that to me, or to any one that I’ve seen for that matter. So I’m just uber happy that, that happened today and that it was them, cause I needed that little “pick me upper” (: idk I guess its just the little things in life that make your day!
&& also my friend Elena was all like “I like the kind of pretty where you don’t have to wear make up always, like you” and I’m like the only people that ever compliment me like that is old people and my mom lamo :P every one now days have to be perfect and kinda fake they wear make up fake tan their skin, which I don’t even get that since it looks orange and nothing like a tan… but any ways. And people just always do these things to make them selves look better so guys will drool over them, when really that’s not really a compliment all that the guys want to do is get in their pants, its not like “oh your pretty, can I be your boyfriend” kind of compliment it’s a “oh ur hott, can I fuck you?” compliment… its degrading and icky :( for me showing off ur body is okay to me, our body’s are beautiful, there art. but saying “yeah lets fuck” its disgusting!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
RIP
omfg that’s freaky! The way you described how you were shoked and how you didn’t really know her that much but it affected you majorly… ect. is the exact way I felt when Heath Ledger died. Just the way you explained it is seriously exactly the way I felt!! I just think its really weird, well great minds think alike (:
& the way I deal with death is that every day you live and that passes by is just another step closer to seeing who ever your waiting to see. xoxoxo to every one that is missing some one right now <3
RIP Brittany Murphy & Heath Ledger <3
Fuck Murphy’s Law!!
I think I have a nerve problem in my foot, its scary cause if that’s really the case, it’s a lot of money to get operated on… and my parents really don’t have the money or the insurance to take care of it. I hate that every thing falls apart when we have no money, a couple of years ago if every thing got fucked up it would be no big deal cause we would have the money to help us out with what ever… but haha now that we don’t have any money, of cores its all about Murphy’s Law :(
On top of that I feel really pissy today, so the bad mood really doesn’t make every thing else any better. Fuck, why does this shit have to happen at the worst time…??!
On top of that I feel really pissy today, so the bad mood really doesn’t make every thing else any better. Fuck, why does this shit have to happen at the worst time…??!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Tyler Shields
this is seriously an awsome vid,
http://www.tylershields.com/2010/01/04/the-2009-video/
check him out tyler shields people!!
I found this quote on some ones MySpace page... I'm not stealing it or any thing; I thought it was a cool one so I posted it. (: don’t get upset lol
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident....we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- Louis de Bernières
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident....we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
- Louis de Bernières
Watch The New LEGION Trailer - In Theaters 1/22/10
this is a fucking crazy ass movie!!
I freakin love it!, can't wait to see it!! :D
Monday, January 4, 2010
funny Leonard Nimoy
this is sooo funny, Leonard is so down to earth and cool!
I seriously want to meet those three men!!
are we all abnormal?
The only thing that can keep me sane is to look upon the future and try to form what I would like to have in store for the rest of my life. To find Nirvana you would have to focus on the present, not the past, or the future, just what ever you are dealing with in the now. Yes that seams logical, if you find peace within yourself you would have to eliminate all your fears, wants, and pleasures. But, how will you focus yourself to what ever you would like to achieve if you’re only thinking about the present? Besides Buddha lived in a different time period, now days it’s different. People push kids to focus on there dreams and what they want to be, or what they want to accomplish in their short life. But in reality that only makes kids that will once turn into the grown ups that will rule the population. Our generation is just going to be disappointed, for not every one can make it in the big world. It’s hard out there, even though I have not experience it yet, I know that it will not be easy for me, or for any one for that matter. It seems like I have no future even though I have all the dreams and plans as what a “normal” human would have, I still feel like there was some thing more to just this, to the life we have created and the society we have formed. I feel as if I was created, or made for a purpose. Not knowing what I’m in for, I came into this world. Clueless and unexplained; I am the weary one looking for the propaganda that forces us homosapiens to become some thing that we all are tricked into from the beginning of our lives, to the very last breath we have. We are tricked into thinking that the way every thing is, is normal. But what is normal exactly? The correct definition of it is: normal - (adjective) normal is the opposite of abnormal, abnormality is the dysfunction of the brain. Like a mental illness or a form of retardation. So the normal that we put into terms (conforming to the usual standard, type, or custom) really doesn’t exist. What future are we building up for? We all end up in the same place in the end.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Sad Britney
this guy is awsome!!
cheack him out people,
pweez for me?? ^^
Christopher Dallman "Sad Britney"
Funny or Die.com
A Very Naked Christmas - watch more funny videos
haha (:
gave me giggles thought I might share it with you guys :P
Amazing song!!
this song is simply incredible, its in the trailer for Star Trek
Two Steps From Hell "Freedom Fighters"
Sylar quote
“I’m different now. I feel I have been given a chance to start over. New life, new identity, new purpose.” – Sylar
Saturday, January 2, 2010
omfg??!
haha it’s kinda funny my mom thinks she’s right. I looked up on a map US Virgin Islands and she keeps on thinking it’s some where else when it clearly says its right where I was pointing to… and my dad got in on it and thought he was right too, when I went to Bing maps, Yahoo maps, and Google maps, and all of them said the same thing… my mom fucking flipped the fuck out and was like “I aint driving your ass around today” just Baucus I was saying she was wrong like what the fuck seriously just because your not right all the time, that doesn’t mean you have to fucking flip out and be a cunt about it… yeah I wouldn’t stop talking about it maybe that’s why she flipped a wig, but seriously she was acting like a little kid about it… if she wants me to act more mature then my fucking god she better grow the fuck up as well!! I kinda have a right to act immature at times considering I am still a “kid” she has no right saying I’m human I have my moments when I do too and she treats me like I’m 5. I’m turning 16 I’m getting my drivers license in a year my fucking god, treat me with some respect bitch for once in your pathetic life!!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Zachary Quinto
I love this man <3 :D
xoxoxo
Oh yeah and P.S.
Instead of using (for example) – this stuff is the “shits” I’ll say this stuff is the “tits” idk its funny, so I’ll use it haha. && my other funky swear word is corn nuts… bahahaha :D
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