Ever since I watched the flash video from the site the Meatrix (which is terribly funny I might add), I have been rather against the whole factory farm issue. Have any of you ever wondered where our meat for sausages, burgers and all other fast food outlets come from? I haven’t either, till I saw the video. Its rather disgusting to see the way food companies grow what we call poultry. I even wonder if the meat that we take in is even safe? What is the likelihood of use getting a terrible disease because of the way the farm animals are breed. You can find out more about sustainable eating her, at Sustainable Table. It is also tied up together with the green site, Gracelinks. Which in a nutshell

“GRACE promotes community based solutions for the production and consumption of food and energy. Working with research, policy, consumer and grassroots communities, GRACE raises public awareness and advances innovative solutions to create an economically and environmentally viable future, and eliminate practices that are harmful to the environment and public health.”

My problem with this is how are we to know whether our meat is from the organic and traditional farms instead of the factory farms. I thought it would’ve been easy to figure out, because of labels. Sad to say we DON’T have that here when we go to the meat section in the supermarket. Or at least I haven’t seen it yet. Enlighten me anyone if you have seen and if you think there is a good way of maybe differentiating how our meat is produced. Having said that, to get attention, I thought this was a great way for one activist to shout out a point. Yeap saw it in the papers, a bit gory but the message gets out there. Right click and view image to see it bigger.

Interesting, that I have been putting in a lot more post on being green lately. But hey, I think its fun and rather interesting to know the ways that others around the globe are trying to spread the cause or at least reduce their carbon footprint. Anyway, I got this from ecorazzi which led me to other websites from there. Hollywood, people is going green and they are holding a green conference to discuss on environmental issues on how Hollywood can be involved in the spread. Check it out here at Hollywood Goes Green and if you want more articles to read on this you can go to Variety, which has their own archive of Green Hollywood. Or you cna head on to WebbyAward winner WorldChanging.com to take a look at the “How green is Hollywood?” article, which according to a god umber of comments was rather inspiring. What are they going to discuss? Roughly here is what their agenda looks like at the Hollywood Green conference.

“Topics include:

• Why Green is good for the entertainment business
• Reducing carbon footprints and understanding credit options
• Financing and pitching environmentally themed films
• Delivering green messages on cable and television
• Incorporating green initiatives in advertising campaigns
• Saving fuel and energy efficient vehicles
• Evaluating impact of Live Earth concert series and music business

Breakout sessions and workshops offer more in-depth group discussion on several hot topics:

• Sustainable Green building design and renovation
• Celebrity activism
• Green marketing and advertising for film and TV
• eco-friendly production
• Adopting paperless practices
• Workshops by guilds and environmental organizations”

Now having said that how exactly does Hollywood intend to go green? Honestly I’m not too sure, but maybe this gave a bit more light on the matter. Eco-tainment tips for the soul. Hehehe.