a memorial for the animals
So that we can honor the countless animals who have suffered as humanity rose to greatness, a memorial is created to the animals that lived in human captivity, and to the people that worked to bring the cycle of violence against those animals to an end.
Thought one: infoporn
Infoporn is something I first saw in Wired magazine. They would have a few pages of their magazine with lots of pretty graphs and numbers. Here is a random example I just found:
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/15-07/st_infoporn
So. The idea I've had is to compose one page of pretty graphs that simplifies the material aspects of various food production methods. The graph I have in mind should use representative units like a blue cube for a cubic acre of water, green cube for an acre of land, bean pod icons for the vegetable input, brown cubes for poop, etc. And at the end there would be a burger icon for some thousands of beef or veggie burgers.
So a pair of food lines might look something like:
10[water]+1[land]+10[soy] -> 1[cow] -> 3[polluted water]+3[greenhouse gas]+1[burger]
1[water]+1[land]+1[greenhouse gas] -> 1[soy] -> 1[hamburger]
There are other elements that might fit into here as well (energy, factories, human labor, nutrition). Perhaps other lines as well (cows from factory farms vs grass fed cows). It should be simple and it should be easy to find the solid numbers for all this. Of course, this ignores all the unquantifiable aspects of animal cruelty that occurs on farms, but this is for a particular demograph of people who ignore anything based on unquantifiable aspects. Ideally getting this into something like Wired would be a great way to introduce lots of people to the ecological damage and resource waste they could avoid just by switching to a different hamburger icon.
I'll make a mock up of the diagram I have in mind, and if anyone with graphic design skills or is knowledgeable about the numbers I've proposed wants to contribute, just post a reply.
Update: this page has some of the stats I'm looking for:
http://www.vegansoapbox.com/an-environmentalist-who-eats-meat/
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/15-07/st_infoporn
So. The idea I've had is to compose one page of pretty graphs that simplifies the material aspects of various food production methods. The graph I have in mind should use representative units like a blue cube for a cubic acre of water, green cube for an acre of land, bean pod icons for the vegetable input, brown cubes for poop, etc. And at the end there would be a burger icon for some thousands of beef or veggie burgers.
So a pair of food lines might look something like:
10[water]+1[land]+10[soy] -> 1[cow] -> 3[polluted water]+3[greenhouse gas]+1[burger]
1[water]+1[land]+1[greenhouse gas] -> 1[soy] -> 1[hamburger]
There are other elements that might fit into here as well (energy, factories, human labor, nutrition). Perhaps other lines as well (cows from factory farms vs grass fed cows). It should be simple and it should be easy to find the solid numbers for all this. Of course, this ignores all the unquantifiable aspects of animal cruelty that occurs on farms, but this is for a particular demograph of people who ignore anything based on unquantifiable aspects. Ideally getting this into something like Wired would be a great way to introduce lots of people to the ecological damage and resource waste they could avoid just by switching to a different hamburger icon.
I'll make a mock up of the diagram I have in mind, and if anyone with graphic design skills or is knowledgeable about the numbers I've proposed wants to contribute, just post a reply.
Update: this page has some of the stats I'm looking for:
http://www.vegansoapbox.com/an-environmentalist-who-eats-meat/
Think Outside the Cage
Hello, the purpose of this blog is to provide a space for me to put my random ideas on improving the lives of the animals that are suffering needlessly for the human appetite. The ideas may not be fully thought out or may be incomplete, and I welcome any comments and criticisms so that they may someday be used to inspire wider audiences to make informed and compassionate decisions.
I would also encourage anyone who thinks of or hears about any other novel approaches to reducing suffering to send me an e-mail so I can post it here. I may link to posts I read on other blogs as well. There is a link to my e-mail and links to some of the other blogs I read on the side of this page. Replying to a post here is a safer way to ensure that I read your message, as spam filters can sometimes prevent legit messages.
Thanks, I hope you find some inspiration from my writings. Those in cages can't express their suffering, so it is up to us outside of the cage to help them.
I would also encourage anyone who thinks of or hears about any other novel approaches to reducing suffering to send me an e-mail so I can post it here. I may link to posts I read on other blogs as well. There is a link to my e-mail and links to some of the other blogs I read on the side of this page. Replying to a post here is a safer way to ensure that I read your message, as spam filters can sometimes prevent legit messages.
Thanks, I hope you find some inspiration from my writings. Those in cages can't express their suffering, so it is up to us outside of the cage to help them.
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