Hmm....

I've been heckled to do a new post. But what to write about? If you look to my previous posts, most of them are melancholy with a touch of hate. Now, I have a slightly satisfiable life. I can honestly say that when I sing in the shower, I sing happy songs instead of gushy love songs wishing I was in a certain situation. I go on everyday with a genuine smile on my face. I had a pretty bad experience a couple days back where I was beat up pretty badly, but I realized, I have amazing friends to go to who would not hesitate to help me, and I am so lucky for these relationships. Thank you one and all for your caring, and I hope that I am able to be as kind to you.
So I'm going to go on smiling, and not let anyone rain on my parade. Sorry, I was just watching Funny Girl.
Now if you excuse me, I need to go look at this weeks Post Secrets.

Sincerely with love,
Me

Why I am vegetarian:

- Livestock consumes 70 percent of U.S. grain production. Twenty million people die each year as a result of malnutrition and starvation. Americans could feed 100,000,000 people by reducing their intake of meat by 20 percent.

-One acre of prime land can produce many pounds of edible product. Here are a few examples:
>30,000 pounds of apples
>40,000 pounds of potatoes
>50,000 pounds of tomatoes
>250 pounds of beef

-Livestock- cattle, poultry, goats, sheep- totaling 15 billion worldwide now outnumber people three to one. Livestock graze on half of the world's mass. The explosion of livestock populations has resulted in a parallel explosion of animal wastes that pollute surface and ground water. U.S. livestock produce 230,000 pounds of excrement per second. The amount of waste created by a 10,000-head feed lot is equal to the waste of a city of 110,000 people.

-World livestock production is now a significant factor in the emission of two of the four global warming gases: carbon dioxide and methane. Every steak we eat ha the same effect as a 25-mile drive in a typical American car.

-Each year, an estimated 125,000 square miles off rainforest are permanently destroyed, bringing about the extinction of approximately 1,000 plant and animal species.

-Producing 1 pound of feedlot steak results in the loss of 35 pounds of topsoil. It takes 200 to 1,000 years to form one inch of topsoil.

-It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of beef. It takes 49 gallons of water to produce 1 edible pound of apples.

-Eighty percent of the meat produced in the United States contains drugs that are passed on to you when you eat it.

-Animal products contain large quantities of saturated fat and cholesterol and have no dietary fiber. The U.S. surgeon general has stated that 68 percent off all diseases are diet related. A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and grains (and free of animal products) can prevent, improve, and sometimes cure breast cancer, osteoporosis, prostate cancer, impotence and obesity.

-Seventy-five percent of federal poultry inspectors say they would not eat chicken

Answered Prayers

I know, how terribly cliche`. But I honestly have no other way to explain it. When leaving my friends house at around 3 a.m., the key to my van stuck in the tumbler, causing the car not to start, this occasionally happens but usually fixes itself within a few minutes. Well this time, it wasn't working, and after about 8 minutes of struggling, I finally took the key out and held it in my hand, closed my eyes and whispered "Please, please, please, help. Please." I breathe out and stuck the key into the ignition once again, and the car started, I nearly jumped for joy. While driving down the street, I say "Thank you, whoever 'you' are". I don't know if this was divine intervention or coincidence, but I felt pretty relieved. And left me curious whose up there, and what they think and how they choose what prayers to answer, if that is even what happened.