Why? Because I like chocolate. It's very tasty and like all things (I am finally learning) it is even better in moderation. A little bit here and there goes a long way, no?
I am particularly fond of 3 Musketeer bars...the are 1/3 less fattening than REGULAR candy bars (ha, like it matters...once your chowing down on a candy bar....the calories are a moot point over all) and is made with a dark chocolatey coating and some sort of fluffy center. I probably don't want to know what that stuff is in the middle. It's probably made out of kitten whiskers or something awful I would never knowingly condone.
The amount of food, products and processes in our culture that are reliant in a destructive way upon the Earth and it's life forms is staggering. I can't read any more PETA, I can't even read the labels of food because I find all descriptions of things that sound strangely chemical or tortuously like another name for kitten whiskers.
Why can't I just have some chocolate with no strangeness in it? I don't want to spend $ on things that are going to contribute to the destructiveness, I just want a piece of damn chocolate. MINUS THE KITTEN WHISKERS please! Minus any animal byproduct...PLEASE!
I am not comfortable with being a carnivore, at all...I hate that it will get snuck in on me in the most random places. Sure, if you buy a candy bar...it's probably got MILK or EGGS or some other dairy product....thus PUS MILK....but, there are chocolates out there that use soy and I can deal with that, if you can find them. argh.
My frustration is....I am only one person, I cannot be held accountable for all the woes and mysteries of the world...even though my other personality would tell you I definitely AM accountable for everything I do that in any way impacts the Earth or another life form. Of course I am. And sometimes, when I am feeling impulsive...that sort of sucks b/c it makes me question my chocolate, glare at all that chocolatey goodness and wonder who it's mother was. MOOOOOO.
~ sigh ~
When did chocolate become my enemy? When did we become the Earth's enemy? :(
There's my rant for the day.....
3 comments:
Ok. I don't get it. *laugh*
how the HECK does eating a candy bar make you the earth's enemy?
And I know you know but I'll remind you so you don't feel so guilty... in India, Milk and butter and cream are considered gifts from the gods. The cow is sacred, and gives of herself for your nourisment.
So... moooooo is a good thing ;)
MG - I know, the rant wasn't very well formulated. I struggle a lot with the consumption of any animal by product and food that is over produced. For me, there's nothing sound about practicing mass murder/mutiliation of animals OR torturing the Earth for our own selfish purposes.
Candy bars are mass produced to feed America's sugar addiction, and made with all sorts of weird chemicals, doing who knows what to our planet. Had a moment of guilt, as if I need more to feel guilty about.
Mooo is a good thing, so is baaaah and cluck cluck and oink oink...if all people could respect the roles of animals in each of our respective cultures, I think there would be a great respect for one another and all life forms, including the Earth. But that's not what I see and it's hard for me to believe that the legacy of so much destruction will not follow an even more destructive path in the long run.
I hope that does not become the case.
BTW: I wonder if I can get imported chocolate from India, made with blessed milk:)
awww. Poor kid... you are sure making it hard for yourself to enjoy that candy bar! *chuckle*
How about home-made candy or cookies? Those are made with love! Bake yourself a batch of chocolate chip yummies and enjoy.
If we really want to talk about mass production to feed an american addiction... shouldn't we discuss cigaretts or Starbucks??
Candy just wants to love you!
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