When I was little and suddenly lost appetite in front of a plate full of food my parents would always tell me that I had to try to finish it because it wasn’t right to throw food away, if I still refused they would tell me I wasn’t going to be allowed to eat sweets afterwards and because usually none of that worked they ended up having to eat it themselves.
But some kids had to hear the story of “those starving in Africa” from their parents, I don’t think it made a difference but I’m sure it’s still a popular option.
Never in my life have I been hungry for more than a couple of hours but I have visited some very isolated places where people have never been full. I have spoken to people who eat meat once or twice a year, and not because they don’t eat their friends but because most food is a luxury there. Those people work, every single day of their lives (and I mean EVERY single one), from 5am until 9pm but some don’t ever get paid with money and others are just allowed to live in the land of their “boss” because of said work.
I’m sure a lot of people would never believe how many millions of human being all over the world live in those conditions, so I’m going to give another example that’s easy to understand.
Each year some places in the USA give food to the poor during Thanksgiving or Christmas, they usually give them frozen turkeys so they can cook them however they like but because there have been problems with the economy last year (2008) they gave chickens instead.
Some of those people don’t live on welfare and yet they can’t afford to buy themselves a whole animal for a special occasion, but this post is not to feel sorry for them.
During the first week of January most featured videos in YouTube involved “Turkey Bowling” a “sport” consisting of grabbing the dead animal and throwing it to the floor in order to crash with other food. From the previews it seems this “game” happened mostly inside of stores so nobody really damaged (or left covered in dust and pubes) anything that was theirs.
There are balls, there are bowling balls, there are bowling places and there are dozens of sports, why use food?, do people think the sight is funny because it used to be alive and now it’s dead, frozen, headless and inside a plastic bag?.
I’m not a vegetarian but if you’re not going to eat an animal, why the fuck would you need to play with it?!.
I know some people even buy things only to get them smashed, I know people go to comedy shows to watch food explode, I cannot expect them to respect the work of the kids and adults whose skin and blood has gotten permanently damaged due to inhaling the pesticides when they are harvesting, or to care about the pollution caused by moving around the food from where it was packed to where it will get sold, I know that for them each sweat drop these people produced to make sure they didn’t loose their job gets fully paid with a few cents (how much is an apple and how many people are involved in getting it sold?, do the math) so it would be dumb for me to ask them here to stop being selfish man-babies and use their time and resources in a non-leeching way but, what I can do is hope with all my heart that the economy depression gets so big that no one will be allowed to do something so idiotic again.
