Ed has a piece entitled “Scenes From This American Life,” in which he points out the following:
Yesterday approximately 20,000 people around the world died of starvation while hordes of mostly old, mostly fat white American Christians flocked to a fast food chain to spend money and consume fried chicken from cancer- and disease-ridden chickens that suffered every second from birth to slaughter to show support for said chain’s willingness to donate millions of dollars to stop The Gays from getting married.
Meanwhile, people who buy multiple boxes of Sudafed or who purchase money orders over $1000 end up being tracked by law enforcement while individuals who buy thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition are not.
Fantastic. Maybe this is what they’re talking about when they say “American exceptionalism.”
If you’re not reading Ed’s blog, Gin and Tacos, you should be.
He’s right about the animal abuse of factory farming, a cruel fact of the SAD (Standard American Diet). Although I’m guilty of eating this stuff too, I do give money to an organization called Farm Sanctuary, which rescues abused, lost and ‘downed’ livestock (downed is when they are too sick to stand or have a broken leg) and gives them a healthy, natural (outdoors) life until they die a natural death.
These folks are the true ‘Christians’, not those bloated, hate filled, undereducated shells of human beings who will drive out of their way and stand in a long line to order junk food just to spitefully stick it to gay people.
Another great organization that promotes humane farming is based out of Chicago called FOOD ANIMALS CONCERN TRUST or FACT. I’ve contributed to them for years and they do great work.
http://www.foodanimalconcerns.org/