Journal Entry 33. I feel TRAPPED

A few nights ago I woke up about 3 in the morning.  I do that on occasion.    I turned on the television and turned off the news and put on NGO, the National Geographic station.  Normally the television being ON helps me to get back to sleep.  That and sex.

NGO ended up being the choice because I love programs that deal with information.  My favorite stations are Investigation Discovery, History and TruTV.  I recently discovered NGO and it plays clearly on my digital cable box so I put it on.    The program playing at that time was something about undercover people taking photos of farms.  They were hired as farm workers but they were taking pictures of animals being abused.  I faded in and out (mostly in) but the bottom line ended up being that some employees were arrested for abusing animals and farmers were pissed about the undercover reporting.  The farmers in multiple states helped get laws passed that made it illegal to work undercover at a farm.(see link).  That was the scary part. 

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/campaigns/factory_farming/fact-sheets/ag_gag.html#id=album-185&num=content-3312


In a lot of cases these undercover animal rights advocates also uncovered situations where animals were sick and were not supposed to be sold to the public.  If a cow is unable to walk the law states it cannot be killed and placed for human consumption.  So these animal rights advocates in a mission to capture animal abuse were also able to blow the whistle on farmers selling bad food to the public.  In the case of cows the danger is selling meat contaminated with e-coli or even mad cow disease.  So reading that there are states that actually passed a law prohibiting undercover work on farms freaked me out.  The law bans the taking of photography without the owners consent.  My guess would be that the purpose of this law would be to ensure the farmer continues to make money.  If the public not only saw the abuse of animals but the production of sickly animals for human consumption they might be convinced to go vegetarian.  Profits over people.



If you are for animal rights you would be disturbed over the images of chickens getting their necks wrung and cows getting abused while giving milk.  While hard to take hearing about contaminated food nearly made me sick.

Now aside from sharing the information how do I use the information?  I can't farm or grow my own plants so am I doomed?
  I can easily say I will go vegan but how? 
My new homework assignment.