Hearts and bandages

We’re working hard on that right now, been having seminars and lectures about that for this whole week. I’m not surprised that I felt relieved after our last seminar for this week.

So, we had a lecture this morning about food. An old woman nagging about people wasting food and wasting money on import. And told us how important it is to eat ecologically. And why not become a vegetarian? But I had a couple of questions and statements that she never managed to answer because she just slyly avoided answering them:
A) Ecological food, fine, but what difference does it make?
B) Eat food after season, fine, but this is Sweden, we can’t grow any food during winters, so what do we do?
C) No import of food, fine, but will we not then deny the food that people from other countries have put all their effort on producing, just to make a living? Some countries live on their export of food. What jobs should these people have instead? They can’t affort to educate. And what will the countries do with the food that they have produced? Eat it? They aren’t pigs like us.
D) Ecological meat, fine, the pigs and cows get to walk on some bigger field and they get ultimate happiness. Eventually, they don’t get to decide their own fate. So what difference does it make? It’s as someone would put the cow on the grass field and kill it right there. Then the meat is ecological.

I don’t think sustainable development is about the food you eat or about the environments that you have caused. I don’t even have a car, but the teachers make me feel bad anyway, it’s as if my existence is a great burden to them.

1) If you eat vegetables – that’s good, but because of fertilizers (especially artificial ones) the minerals in the soil get washed out until nothing can grow there anymore, while the minerals gets into the water, providing a growing amount of alga that choke the fish.
2) If you eat meat – it’s one extra step on the food chain, meaning that you don’t get more of the energy that you need from meat, plus meaning that you need a lot more energy to produce it.
3) The effects of the food are: overuse of energy, overfertilized fields and waters, changes on the climate, using up a lot of land and providing a lot of toxic substances.
So what do we do? We eat nothing. That’s the answer I get from the teachers. I feel sorry for them because they seem to eat their food with unhappiness. Maybe they should just eat some air instead. No, sorry, it’s polluted, so don’t.

Save the world!