responsibility and cluelessness
in the past twenty-four hours, four different people found my diary (some of them repeatedly) in search of the mysterious definition of "muah". this has got to be some sort of revelation in marketing that could be sold to advertising agencies. "to boost your search engine ranking," i'd tell them, "make sure to blow your audience a kiss."
so i've been reading "fast food nation" by eric schlosser. the part about meat packing plants is very disturbing and gross. it details people getting limbs crushed and amputated, lungs burned by chemicals, even people being ground up entirely on occasion. this is all on accident, of course. but the people in charge don't care, as long as profits are up. in fact, they'll try to make meat-packing even more dangerous, because that just happens to coincide with more profitable.
i feel like i should do something, but i hardly know where to begin. it just seems insane that people can be treated just like the cattle that they're slaughtering. it's criminal and inhuman. if the executive of meat processing companies thought they could make more money by just killing people outright -- and if they thought they get away with it -- then i'm sure they would do so.
of course, they wouldn't actually do the killing.