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I wanted to talk a little about a subject that came up on facebook. I only now go on facebook to keep in contact with friends and family back in the UK. I am friends with a woman who uses facebook, who lives in Bulgaria and she is from the uk also. I decided also to publish a video about it because I wanted to express my opinion on the matter, you can view it above if you wish to.

The whole meat argument

So you are guessing by the title that she posted up about the cull of her pig. That she had reared for the purpose of slaughtering. This is the norm in Bulgaria, whilst some people do not agree it is still the norm in Bulgaria, and has been for many many years.



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Now before I get into what happened I want to say that I too wondered why in this day that people do this still when meat is freely available here. I had a long discussion with my neighbour about this, and he said one of the reasons they rear the meat for slaughter is because they know what the animal has been given both nutritionally and chemically. I never thought of it like that before, that the meat you eat you may not know what medicine the animal has been given, or if it has been given chemicals to genetically modify the animal for example to make it bigger to produce more meat. (In my opinion that is far more cruel, than hand rearing and raising.)

This is not what I actually want to talk about though.

No the comment that I want to talk about is from a friend of the lady who posted up on facebook and something she said. This was the comment she made and I quote.

I don’t think that you have offended anyone Claire it’s probably more shocking than anything as we aren’t use to the 3rd world ways of doing things here.

Needless to say that the person who posted up corrected her that Bulgaria is not a third world country. But this woman who when I looked at her profile, works for the NHS and is supposedly educated refused to believe this information. I mean WTF!! Even when someone, had done a quick google search and showed her the evidence she still believed she was right.

There and then I knew, that not only does facebook have a problem with censorship, it’s apparent someone will report this post in due course, I hope they allow it to remain. But that how much people are influenced by such stupid comments and fake news from arrogant people, who do not have the slightest notion about society in the world today. So I want to educate people right now on what the definition of a third world country is.

Here is a quote from nationsonline.org

What makes a nation third world?
Despite ever evolving definitions, the concept of the third world serves to identify countries that suffer from high infant mortality, low economic development, high levels of poverty, low utilization of natural resources, and heavy dependence on industrialized nations. These are the developing and technologically less advanced nations of Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. Third world nations tend to have economies dependent on the developed countries and are generally characterized as poor with unstable governments and having high rates of population growth, illiteracy, and disease. A key factor is the lack of a middle class — with impoverished millions in a vast lower economic class and a very small elite upper class controlling the country's wealth and resources. Most third world nations also have a very large foreign debt.

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So you will see readers that to define a third world country would mean such things as.

• High Population.

• Famine

• Disease (Lack of medicine)

• Poverty (huge debt to foreign countries)

I am happy to say that Bulgaria does not full under such categories and is certainly not a third world country. My god what are they teaching in schools I wonder. Bulgaria has no high debts and it does not suffer with hunger. Poverty is only an issue in some areas but remember that the glorious UK also has problems with poverty, I did not see this lady comment about that.

So what class is Bulgaria?

According to investopedia this is the definition of a second world country.

DEFINITION of 'Second World'

1. ‘Second world’ includes a country that was once controlled by the Soviet Union. Second World countries were centrally planned economies and one-party states. The use of ‘Second World’ to refer to Soviet countries largely fell out of use in the early 1990s, shortly after the end of the Cold War.
2. ‘Second world’ also covers a country that is more stable and more developed than a third-world country but less-stable and less-developed than a first-world country. Examples of second-world countries by this definition include almost all of Latin and South America, Turkey, Thailand, South Africa, and many others. Investors sometimes refer to second-world countries that appear to be headed toward first-world status as "emerging markets.”
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I think its safe to say there is a problem.

And that problem is that people are actively becoming involved in conversations and sharing more and more stuff that is not actually true. Regular social media is literally poisoning what people are learning today, and that is having a negative effect on society.
I want to end this saying that I put a comment on at the end of the post stating what I had observed and why I no long post on facebook, these are classic examples. I invited the poster to consider steemit, I can only hope they may join in the future.

Thank you for reading.

xoxo

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