Not everybody in the world can afford to eat meat and so rice, wheat and soya are what they have instead, if they are lucky. To produce meat, animals are often fed cereals and soy, so that in environmental terms, meat eating is expensive. The fish eaters of the Pacific Rim countries are having an adverse effect on South Pacific fish stocks which are now becoming depleted.

Eat what you like, but know the effect on the planet and its population of what you choose to eat.

Macca’s Meat-Free Monday is a good idea, but only if you want to join in, as your free-will is greatly respected.

I don’t know if my English was clear enough.

Crystal clear, as always, Alessandra.

I don’t know if my English was clear enough.

Oh, at least it was clear enough to me.

And I agree, we can’t avoid all the traps they invent to condition us.

But we can try, we won’t give up!

It seems lots of people find it more comfortable to do what someone else suggests to them, no matter who he is, instead of thinking with their own heads.

Now I’m speaking like that was not my problem, but I know I’m also caught by this system.

I mean, I don’t really know if it’s enough to be aware of this mechanism to be free from it. Sometimes I think there could be only different levels of conditioning for us.

I don’t know if my English was clear enough.

The events of the past week have been truly horrendous to watch but refusing to recognize Ahmadinejad’s “government” is the only way to a true democracy.

Neda Soltani along with many others have paid the ultimate price for freedom… don’t let it be for nothing.