TreeSpirit-ed songs about Mother Nature, wild animals, and the planet.
And human, profit-driven threats to ’em.
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We silly humans kill over 70 billion land animals every year — 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 trouble with us human animals eating literally billions of non-human land animals every year: https://wwwTreeSpiritProject.com/EatingAnimals
Point Reyes Seashore Has Some Cows
And then some more cows; far more than you know. Point Reyes National Seashore in fact has about 4,500 privately owned cows spread over about 27,000 acres — all fenced off to the public. Despite it being public land. Contrast this with just over 700 Tule elk as of 2024.
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The for-profit cattle operations are also heavily subsidized by your, public, taxpayer dollars. Bet you didn’t know that. Beef and dairy ranchers are renting the land for, uh, a song; less than 1/2 its market value. No wonder they don’t wanna leave the park and give up the public handouts they get — while playing the poor, struggling, hard-working victim card.
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. But the romantic fantasies about the small farmer run as deep in American culture as our romance of the cowboy. Hence the ability of the Marlboro’s Man to sell millions of addictive, 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 Point Reyes ranching scam, and the Tule elk who suffer and die as a result 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
