To make the story short, Virgin America screwed up and screwed over a LOT of people. And after being told by multiple employees I would be home by five, Suddenly the tune change was, "Well because we're idiots and lied to you, you might not even get on a flight until 11 or later. You don't mind waiting around at the airport for 6-10 hours do you?" "BAH, just assign me a ticket for the morning and so I can go find a bed to sleep in."
This stupid experience carried through into the morning, when my supershuttle showed up, and just drove off, not bothering me to call me to say it arrived. Resulting in me chasing it down the street with a suitcase at 8AM and it just driving away. Then Supershuttle told me they could send me another one if I paid AGAIN for their mistake!! BAHHHHHHH !)(*#)(UTLKDG:HGOEIUTEOI@($(*#(*YTHOGE
My friend Seth who I was staying with said to me through my tears of frustration, "Sassy, if you expect to be treated right by private corporations in this country, you're setting yourself up for a life of disappointment." I agreed with him, called a taxi...well called mom & dad to ask for money for the 55+ dollar cab ride (thanks guys), THEN called the taxi, calmed down and went to the airport.
But that sentence kept hovering over my head, like one of those comic book bubbles. Essentially, if I expect to be not screwed over and swindled by private corporations and their employees, I will be let down...hmm, lets think about that.
This blog is about food. (yummy yummy food) and a conscious choice not to eat inappropriately harvested products. But the question I want to raise, is why is this even an issue? Why are we as a human race destroying our planet, destroying our fellow animals and destroying each other?
I'm being a bit peace, love & sunshine-y, and I'm also kind of scattered due to 36 hours of traveling. But as scary as impossible it feels to change this countries corporate greed and ethics, do we just sit back and do nothing? Now way! I actually have an idea, why don't we get a smorgasbord of people together who agree with this and go occupy somewhere until politicians start listening to us? That's totally a thing we can do in this country right?
To tie back to food and my "carbon foot print" if you will, I really am passionate about making a change in our food industry (was that apparent?) I've been told by multiple people throughout the years, "What's it matter, you're just one person." But already since I started this blog two days ago I've converted two people to join my team and will hopefully get two more, and two more, etc. etc. And their purchasing habits will have an affect on the industry and THAT'S how we can begin to change this.
The way private corporations have weeded out the farmer and taken over with their factory slaughter houses is wrong. The way they have skewed OUR food consumption and dietary needs is WRONG. Sorry congress, pizza is NOT a vegetable and yeah, thanks for handing out a faulty food pyramid to our classrooms.
And that's something I encourage you to think about the next time you go out to eat or buy your groceries, or go out to eat. You can make a difference, by not giving money and support to slaughtering animals. WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD GUYS
Okay, preachy post done. I'll get back to stupid one's about the main squeeze and my friends drinking strawberry daiquiri's tomorrow.
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