All I Need ( Radiohead )

Today I was remembered by a friend and ex teacher, Suzana, about this song and video.
I saw it once on the TV and it stayed dormant in the back of my head, and today booom,
all the lights ignited once more.

It's incredible how such a mundane gesture, that is, to buy something from someone, can have
such a huge impact ( negative or positive ) in so many lives.

In our en raised culture, were we must have so much more, and the always new and shinny, we forget that
a huge impact is being made behind the scenes.

Even food for crying out loud! Food is a subject that hurts me bad, because, it's something so basic in our existence
and we just can't seem to make right decisions on it.

Just some pointers

"More than a third of all raw materials and fossil fuels consumed in the U.S. are used in animal production. Beef production alone uses more water than is consumed in growing the nation’s entire fruit and vegetable crop."

"As Eric Schlosser noted in his best-selling book Fast Food Nation, “Americans now spend more money on fast food—$110 billion a year—than they do on higher education."

"In his book The Food Revolution, author John Robbins estimates that “you’d save more water by not eating a pound of California beef than you would by not showering for an entire year.”

"Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer estimates that reducing meat production by just 10 percent in the U.S. would free enough grain to feed 60 million people."

The full article:
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142

I'm at the moment trying to put a volunteer network together ( http://migos.org ) and I hope to get a group of people dedicated to social awareness programs in that area.

I've mentioned that we can also take positive impact buying things, and that's true. If we buy less, but buy products that are made taking in consideration the people instead of the profit. That can be food, cloth, or even computers. Research how stuff is done and you will make the right decision. And this just gave me an idea for my next post... The story of stuff.