Dead
zones in waterways from synthetic fertilizer runoff:
Abuse
of chickens on factory farms:
A
whistleblower who once worked for the 2nd largest chicken producer in the U.S.
has come forward to tell the world about the birds’ horrible living conditions.
He also sheds light on the reason why the overwhelming majority of US chicken
producers wash the poultry in
chlorine before putting it on the market.
Yes,
chlorine. You know, like swimming pools.
According
to the whistleblower, ex-North Carolina chicken farmer Craig Watts, tens of
thousands of ultra-plump birds are stuffed into oversized warehouses, where
they are so fat their legs
buckle under their own weight. The chickens, which can reach 9
lbs., are not exposed to natural light and often die before they reach
maturity. Many of them are covered in their own feces. [1]
This,
the whistleblower claims, is why 97%
of American chickens are washed in chlorine after they are
slaughtered, though there is no legal requirement to do so.
Watts
said:
“The
birds are too heavy to stand because they have been bred for breast meat and
nothing else, so they spend their lives squatting. It’s like 2 toothpicks sticking out of a grape.
They
spend 95% of their time sitting on the litter, a mixture of pine shavings and
fecal matter from that flock and prior flocks.”
It
gets worse. Watts says the birds’ living conditions are so cramped, they injure
one another just moving about the warehouse.
“Their
flesh would rot, and when you have them crammed in so tight, they will walk
over other birds if they want to get to the food or scratch the others and
cause a wound. It is awful.” [2]
. . .
Source: Julie Fidler, http://naturalsociety.com/whistleblower-reveals-why-us-chickens-washed-chlorine-1654/,
opened 30 March 2018
The
monks of Valaam Monastery can show us a better way if we will let them:
The orchards of Valaam… So much has
been said and written about them. But the flood continues of exclamations and
puzzled questions about how people can grow vegetables and exotic fruits in
conditions described as “extremely high-risk agricultural”, and even produce
amazingly abundant harvests. What is the secret? Do the Valaam monks know
something that is hidden from the rest of the world? What gives them the
strength to transform nature and create with their hands paradisal foliage on
bare rocks?
Growing potatoes, making cheese, and
farming trout are all vitally important, but not the most important thing for
monks. As opposed to strong collective farms and agribusinesses, the brothers’
agricultural obediences
have, to use modern language, different ideological foundations—nothing in the
monastery is done without prayer and hope in God’s will, and everything is
directed toward the acquisition of humility and peace of soul.
. . .
Source: http://orthochristian.com/105683.html,
opened 30 March 2018
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What’s
coming for society if we go on turning our backs on traditional ways of living:
The
AI nightmare, as depicted in The X-Files:
Related
to that is the 5G nightmare:
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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