TreeSpirit-ed SONGS about Mother Nature, wild animals, and the planet.
And the human, profit-driven threats to ’em.
The inimitable Mary Poppins herself sings about the animals we humans eat, in…
Super-callous-dead-and-bloody-brutal-mass-psychosis
We silly Homo sapiens kill over 70 billion land animals every year just to eat ’em — but rarely even think about it. The practice is so deeply imbedded in world cultures, and in our subconscious minds, we don’t acknowledge the unimaginable suffering we are inflicting on so mind-bogglingly many innocent creatures — mainly cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep. (We also kill additional trillions of “Chickens of the Sea,” fish, but that’s a future story.)
Paradoxically, most people get angry and triggered if they see someone kick a dog. But cultural conditioning draws invisible lines between how we can treat some animals kindly, and others horrifically. We treat cows, pigs, and chicken as unfeeling things in order to eat them, and often keep the killing out of sight, behind slaughterhouse walls.
And of course the giant, for-profit dairy & beef industries, and their P.R. firms and ad agencies lie – – sorry, “advertise” – – an alternate, fictional, rosy reality which we lap up, along with the sausage & double-cheese pizza.
All this deserves a wholesome song — by Mary Poppins — spit-spot! Enjoy! And bon appetit!
• READ MORE about the planned chemical poison drop on the Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
No one knows what goes on behind closed barn doors in the…
Sad World (of dairy cows)
An animated video of the sad world of dairy cows in modern America. Taking babies from their Moms. Hidden, quiet suffering on a mind-boggling scale. Diary milk does NOT do these bovine bodies any good. On the contrary dairy products (including cheese, ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese) are today an industry so brutal and depressing, an advertising and public relations veil has been created and promulgated to hide the truth.
Paradoxically, most people get angry and triggered if they see someone kick a dog. Once again, cultural conditioning makes arbitrary distinctions between how we treat, for example, the dogs we live with, and the cows we confine to concrete stalls behind opaque walls.
We treat cows, pigs, and chicken as unfeeling things in order to eat them, and often keep their mass-slaughter out of sight, lest we recoil at the brutality baked into the human foods we make from cow’s mother’s milk (and deny to her own babies).
And yes, all this goes for “small,” “local,” “organic,” and “regenerative” dairy farms too.
• READ ABOUT “humane-washing.”
• READ ABOUT “regenerative ranching.”
Mary Poppins is back, singing about the industrial poison drop planned for a National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of San Francisco, with more than…
A Spoonful of Poison
The Farallon Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, 28 miles off the San Francisco coast, is a designated National Marine Sanctuary, and a haven for marine mammals including sea lions, seals, blue whales and grey whales.
This wild marine habitat is just off the continental shelf where upwellings attract myriad marine mammals, fishes and birds to feed. It is under imminent chemical industry threat — by humans with, naturally, a profit-driven plan to assault wild nature. Chemical contractors would bombard the Southeast Farallon Island with a massive amount of toxic rat poison.
Brodifacoum-laced bait pellets, dropped from helicopters. The contractors hired to deliver this poisonous payload are out to completely eradicate an entire population of thousands of mice — who have been living on the island for over 150 years. The mice were likely introduced by sailors in the mid-1800s.
• READ MORE about the horrific Farallones poison drop.
• READ MORE about the trouble with us human animals eating literally billions of non-human land animals every year.
Charity Kahn & The Invisible Bee sings…
Point Reyes Seashore Has Some Cows
…and thousands more cows than you think. Point Reyes National Seashore in fact has about 4,500 privately owned cows spread over about 28,000 acres — and all public land in this national park unit just 20 miles north of San Francisco, CA, is fenced off to the public. Contrast this conflagration of for-profit domesticated cows with just over 700 wild Tule elk, half of which are still trapped inside a fenced compound called, ironically, the Tule Elk Reserve. READ MORE.
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The profit-driven cattle operations are also heavily subsidized by your, public, taxpayer dollars. Bet you didn’t know that. These beef and dairy operations rent the public land for, uh, a song; 1/2 or 1/4 its market value. No wonder ranchers don’t wanna leave the park — despite having been paid millions more public dollars to do so and then reneging on that deal — the park and give up their fat public subsidies. handouts they get — (Instead, they play their oh-pity-poor-us public relations violins.)
Ah, the romance of the hard-working local farmer who’s just trying to make a living as an honest “steward” of the land… which is a fable as full of manure as their pastures are. The romantic, nostalgic fantasy of the small, hardworking farmer run as deep in American culture as our cowboy mythologies (which help sell millions of addictive, Marlboro Man-ly cancer sticks worldwide).
In reality, the parks’ cattle ranches are its #1 source of pollution, including land degradation (by trampling and desiccation), soil pollution (via excessive cow manure), fresh water pollution (via excessive cow manure), and Pacific ocean pollution (via excessive cow manure run-off). The park’s cows also emit more greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) than the park’s annual 1.5-ish million visitor vehicle’s tailpipe emissions (CO2)! Because cows emit soooo much methane (MH4), which traps almost 30x more heat in the atmosphere than CO2 does.
READ MORE about the filthy-dirty Point Reyes ranching scam, and the Tule elk who suffer and die because of it: https://www.TreeSpiritProject.com/elk
Illustration: LuLuArt.com
I Know Some Men Out to Kill Mice
The Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary, 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, Califorinia, is a haven teeming with marine life. It faces an imminent chemical attack — by humans with a profit-driven plan to bombard the Southeast Farallon Island with a massive amount of toxic Brodifacoum, a 2nd generation, anti-coagulant, rat poison, in the form of cereal bait pellets. Tens of thousands of the poison pellets will be dropped from helicopters onto this Pacific island.
The contractors hired to deliver this poisonous payload want to attempt to completely eradicate an entire population of thousands of mice — who have been living on the island for over 150 years. (The mice were likely introduced by sailors in the mid-1800s.) What could possibly go wrong?
For one, even the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, which has yet to grant permits for the poison bombardment, acknowledges that over 1,000 western gulls will be poisoned and killed as what the “restoration” industry calls bi-kill.
READ MORE the Farallon Islands issue: https://wwwTreeSpiritProject.com/Farallones
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• The Rancher Song (from The Threepenny Opera)
• The Tule Elk Song – by The Invisible Bee
Illustration: Lynnette-Shelley
• Just A Spoonful of Poison
• Food & Health & Hope (The Monsanto song!)
– by Seize the Day
