Watch, Learn & Evolve

I only watched part of that doc. it's over-whelming. I'll take it in small doses.

One of the girls wwoofing with me at the Folk Art Guild near Rochester was telling me about how the family pig or chicken on her farm was like a pet and that it was hard to kill and eat them. Somehow it is easier to do when we disassociate the meat/animal from the being/animal...
I remember the last time I ate meat and how it was that point where I could no longer do this disassociation...I could feel the nervousness of the chicken and how it felt in that life.
We are what we eat right? It struck me that maybe people feel enslaved in their lives becuase they eat animals that are enslaved, given little space, treated poorly at best and like meat-objects at worst.

Another lesson I learned at the Folk Art Guild is that plants can also be enslaved much like animals....over-crowded and over picked. We had under an acre of sugar peas and picked their fruits every 2-3 days yeilding 350 lbs a week mostly for the purpose of profiting at the farmer's market. These peas were organic wholesome peas....but were they happy being "milked" so harshly without any of their "babies" being able to become full plants? They started making uglier peas knowing that we we drop them on the ground and not sell them! Do not under-estimate plant consciousness.
Likewise the wwoofers on this farm were over-worked just like their plant partners. My hands were tired of picking the tired pea plant....the peas and my hands were essentially one entity. The mind-sets, intentions and ideals of a place cross the vegetable, animal, human, machine and raw resource boundaries and effect everything!