From Funny Or Die!

Gus Porter gets mauled by a bear, but he won’t let the socialist Canadian health care fix him up, so he’ll hike back to America.

1. Live for the past.
2. Live for the future.
3. Think every­thing is always about you.
4. Think that you just don’t matter at all.
5. Believe that pills will solve all your prob­lems.
6. Believe that pills are stupid and use­less.
7. Do not let your­self change.
8. Believe that it is all your fault.
9. Believe that it is all other people’s fault.
10. Accept all the bad things you have heard, read or thought about you.
11. Deny any good things you have heard, read or thought about you.
12. Never think about other people’s prob­lems.
13. Think that because you can’t do every­thing, you shouldn’t do any­thing.
14. Roll your eyes while reading this list.
15. When hap­pi­ness comes, greet it with fear or guilt or resent­ment.
16. Think that you are or have bad luck.
17. Don’t express your­self cre­atively in any way.
18. Keep on trying to please and/or piss-off Mom and/or Dad.
19. Wait for someone else to come and save you.
20. Exercise only spo­rad­i­cally and only out of guilt.
21. Don’t make friends with silence.
22. Watch a lot of TV.
23. Stay away from Nature.
24. Think of every­thing in terms of black or white.
25. Take all, give nothing.

~Kiran Mehdee [June 2008]

This is encour­aging news for people who are com­pas­sionate towards all ani­mals: KFC Canada lis­tens to PETA.

Eat less meat

Not only are meat and dairy pro­duc­tion & pro­cessing immensely energy-inefficient and pol­luting, the ani­mals we eat are sat­u­rated with hor­mones and genetic mod­i­fi­ca­tions.

My partner and I decided on my last birthday (August 2007) to go veggie . It’s been at times incon­ve­nient and at times very easy to keep it up, espe­cially because we chose to not go too mil­i­tant about it and so we keep our minds open for when prac­ti­cality must win out over our ideals (like when we’re stuck some­where and the only non-meat option out there is pizza with no meat but with cheese), it’s still very sat­is­fying. We are both more ener­getic, we feel calmer inside in gen­eral and we are saving loads of money. And the food options are enor­mous! We both love Indian food which has count­less veg­e­tarian options, and we have dis­cov­ered and redis­cov­ered so many deli­cious foods from spicy and filling falafel to Licks’ juicy veggie burgers, rich vegan brownies, hot and soothing soups, exotic veg­e­tarian pasta and so much more. The one thing I still love is eggs, and so we choose to buy only Free-Run (cru­elty free), organic eggs raised on local farms .

We also try and buy prod­ucts which are not tested on ani­mals, prod­ucts from rel­a­tively enlight­ened com­pa­nies like Revlon, The Body Shop, Jamieson, Estee Lauder, M.A.C. cos­metics, Whole Foods Markets, Victoria’s Secrets and many more.  And we try to avoid buying prod­ucts from com­pa­nies that still per­form unnec­es­sary and cruel animal testing, like Clairol, Arm & Hammer, Cover Girl, Johnson & Johnson, Pantene, Pfizer, L’Oreal, Suave, Sally Hansen and others like them.

For most of my life I thought I didn’t have it in me to give up eating meat. But it’s been easier than I had imag­ined. Yes there are some changes we’ve had to make, but it’s been a lot less of a hassle than I had thought. Now, the thought of eating meat the way I used to is actu­ally repul­sive to me. Knowing the kinds of cru­el­ties that fac­tory farms put their ani­mals through, and how„ at the grocer’s the meat is packed with arti­fi­cial hor­mones, has made me cringe at the thought of con­suming such poi­soned flesh .

Something to think about… the pow­erful meat and dairy indus­tries put a LOT of money in trying to con­vince you oth­er­wise, but the truth is cut­ting back on meat and dairy is good for both your body’s and your planet’s health.

If you’re reading this, I dare you to check out the sites linked here and others, and try to become more veggie-focused and be the cause/consumer of lesser and lesser cru­elty on other sen­tient beings in the world. Just try it for 1 month… I dare ya!

Related links:
Veg.ca
Vegetarian Resource Group
Caring Consumers
How to Avoid Genetically Modified (GM) Foods
Why is American Beef banned in Europe?

BBC NEWS | Health | Woman sees own heart on display

Accompanied by a video of this rare sort of news story.