Okja (Movie) : Beyond Meat to a Better World
Okja looks to humanize and personalize the experience of animals. How different are animals from each other? What is the difference between a pet and livestock? Yes, Okja is imbued with special gifts and a personification far beyond the average herd animal, but it's an invitation for us to ponder our system that has mechanized nature and forced untold physical suffering on animals.
Part of the transition to a better world will be exemplified through untold modifications to our daily living. Some of the walls around us and supports underneath us are key to maintaining us in the consumptive and detached patterns of our behavior. If we wish to truly be more empathetic, connected, and nurturing in our world society, than there is an essential place for revolutionizing our ruthless and barbarous relationship to livestock. The huge resources dedicated to animal warehouses, slaughterhouses, and confined animal feeding operations also directly link to enormous tracts of land dedicated to growing genetically engineered food monocultures (corn, soybean, wheat) doused with pesticides and fertilizers that pollute our waterways, wildlife, and ultimately ourselves.
When we can exist at or near a higher vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, our quality of life will improve not only morally and spiritually, but also physically. Immense health problems from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are directly linked to over consumption, including meats. Americans are largely brainwashed on the amount of protein needed and consume grossly wasteful portions on a daily basis. We still live in giddy yet destructive ignorance of true health and balanced diets, and instead focus on processed meats and cheeses, which were originally stores of calories for preservation and hard times, but are now consumed without limit.
Thanks for reading and your consideration for taking the world to a better place. Wherever you are at, small changes and steps will begin the path for us all to make the world a better, more vibrant, and sustainable place for all creatures. Peace /// @clumsysilverdad
Insightful, the consumers usually don't want to see how the end product got to the shelf. Everyone wants a nicely packaged product without the stress of knowing how it's made. Thanks for sharing
Exactly, thank you.
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Good post
Thank you
Awesome and excellent. Thank you
No problem roop, ty !
Cool! Just replied to your comment on my Okja blog, and then saw yours..and now commenting lol. Really enjoyed your blog here. Agreed. Thank you for sharing this :)
yeah, thank you
I don't think I could be a vegetarian but I would like to buy my meats from local organic farms in the future. Unfortunately because of the cost I just can't afford it like most people
Yes, I hear you. I buy organic things when I can, but certainly not always. Even cutting back to eating meat once a day or just 3x a week can make a big impact. I don't eat red meats (beef/pork) but do eat others a few times during the week.
Nice post. Right that small better changes matter.
Exactly