3 people died in the Boston bombing. 55 died in the Texas explosion. Within moments of the Boston bombing Facebook was flooded with prayer requests, candles and calls for vengence. A day later and not a single prayer request, candle nor call for action has been made on behalf of the 55 nor thier community. Those 55 died in a plant that exists to support our mass consumerism, our lifestyle. That's 55 lives lost doing a job that makes our lives easier. Are we so resistent to change that we would rather focus on kiling a boy from Chechnya than look in the mirror and ask: could I change me? Could I change my lifestyle? Could I become a little more self sufficient so people don't have to work jobs like that, putting their lives on the line each and every day? Can I do it for thier children who just lost thier parents? But no, unless our society is willing to prove me wrong, it will be the government to blame, it will be the company, the inspection officials, etc. And everyone will go back to sleep at night, content because they will have fertilizer for their pretty little gardens and farmers growing our vegetables will have them at the grocery store when it's convenient for us.....and we will have someone else to blame.
Take the money for your cable TV and invest it instead on pots and seeds, get some manure from your local farmer, plant a garden on your balcony and feed those fresh vegetables to your family.
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