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has anybody read Fast Food Nation?
i am a/b to lose my mind reading this book - it's not that i didn't know much of this stuff before, but i've read most of it in diverse sources before and intermittently. to have all that info in one place - and the thing reads like a novel - i can't put it down! and it's just horrifying
it makes me want to runaway and be a hermit and live in a cave b/c sometimes i feel like the badness in the world is so bad and so pervasive that even if you have a conscience and you try to do the right thing you end up supporting the bad guys anyway. like, there are a/b 3 huge corporations that own the majority of the ranches, means of feed production, slaughter houses, and name brands that package and sell the meat (and i'm a vegetarian so that doesn't matter, but the same companies own so many of the brand names of every kind of food so i might not eat their disgusting disease riddled meat of cannibalistic cows, but the money i pay for my cereal or juice supports the same corporation!) and how is the lowly consumer supposed to konw that the same company that owns green giant or kellogs owns the slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants that sold thousands of pounds of e. coli tainted hamburger all across the country?
i mean, it makes me feel so powerless. i think that's why i lapsed in my vegetarianism for a little while, i got all hot under the collar, took a moral stand, and then got really depressed over the futility of it all and got all anarchist and meat eating and cigarette smoking and then realized teh stupidity of that, but i have a hard time striking a balance between being an informed consumer and becoming totally overwhelmed by all the information.

so i'm going to look at some beautiful women whose beauty makes me believe there's still good in the world, pet my kitties, doggie and hubbie, and go to bed.