Is Miley really the biggest harm on TV???

I tried my hardest NOT to watch the Video Music Awards, but after my entire Facebook newsfeed was filled with rants and pictures of Miley Cyrus, I watched it. Ok, I will agree, not her finest moment! BUT...I will also just add her to the list of the female performers that have shocked us throughout the years; Brittany, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and so on!

just doing what MTV expects...

 

remember this hot mess????

Is this any better???

 What I cannot understand is the crazy reaction from parents who feel like Miley has now harmed our daughters, or ruined our kids lives. This was a performance on MTV.  It was for adult viewers, not on a kids channel. And as history has shown...nothing on MTV is PG or G rated!!! This appearance actually got more attention from social media and from US! We posted picture after picture on Facebook and Twitter, where our pre-teen kids spend more time than they should! Now, this doesn't offend me, it doesn't worry me, my son who is 10 did not watch this, he does not go on Facebook or twitter, he has a block on his TV so MTV is off limits. BUT...let me tell you what the real harm on TV is:

my son sees this commercial everywhere!!!

 because fast food is cool & sexy?????

this is poison with a cheap toy!

so terrible and loaded with sugar!

not something we need to feed our kids...sugar & GMOs

There are millions of advertisements on TV for food...and not food our kids (or adults) should be eating! I have never actually counted how many times a McDonalds commercial comes on during a one hour show, but it is a lot! And why does every kids movie end up on a Happy Meal?? And  how often do we see Pepsi, Coke, hotdogs, Lays chips, sugar cereals, cookies, or Sonic on TV...you see where I am going with this, right??

The most harmful thing on TV is not celebrity making a silly performance, it is the food industry! It is the major advertisement deals celebrities get (Beyonce received millions from Pepsi),  it is the athletes who tell our kids to drink Gatorade (even though it is filled with nasty chemicals) or to eat at Subway, it is their favorite cartoon characters on sugary cereal boxes.

The most offensive, harmful, and disturbing thing on TV are the food advertisements, not a 6 minute performance by Miley (on a show kids shouldn't be watching)! That's what should piss us off! That's what we should be flooding social media with!!! If parents threw this kind of fit about food advertisements, GMOs, and the quality of our food, as they did over Miley...we could change our kids lives! Instead we focus on the wrong thing. We focus on a twenty year old performer, acting like a (wild) twenty year old performer. Maybe it wasn't classy, maybe it was not something you enjoyed, but if THAT is what you are bothered by when you watch TV...then you are ignoring the real harm or just not paying attention! I was more offended by Beyonce's Pepsi commercial getting played over and over again, selling poison to the people!

The ugly and painful truth~ Earthlings

I had attempted to watch this documentary before...but only managed to get through about 20 minutes, this time I painfully watched the entire film. It was ugly, disturbing, and...brutally honest. I had seen the link to the movie on a Vegan forum and it had awesome reviews. It's called Earthlings. Really, the most important movie you will watch! I have seen other documentaries about the food industry, Food Inc., Forks Over Knives, but this movie was unbelievable, heartbreaking, and so so sad. 

It starts with Pets, mostly unwanted ones, puppy mills, and shelters. I am a pet owner and love my dogs like they are my kids! I enjoy their company, I snuggle with them, I seek comfort from them, they are part of my family. I couldn't imagine hurting them, giving them away, or dumping them on the side of the road and leaving them to die!!! The movie reveals some very disturbing behaviors humans will do...throw a stray dog into a dumb truck to be crushed, euthanize hundreds of dogs because some selfish person decided they didn't want them anymore :(  The images were real and horrifying, so intense I began to cry. 

The film moves on to the food industry, meat & dairy. I don't eat meat or dairy anymore, but I never thought about where my cheese or chicken came from when I did. I never gave it much thought until I began researching  organic foods and plantbased diets. This is the most graphic and horrible part of the movie, not only the way we treat our food supply, but also the behaviors of the employees in these factories. I think the moment we begin slaughtering animals in such masses, and so brutally, we become desensitized & mentally ill, and no longer see animals as actual living, breathing beings. The amount of meat produced in this country is out of control, we are destroying our land, creating illness and disease, and being extremely inhumane! Next time you go to the store, think about where your meat came from, the horrifying process, and the filth it lived in, and the disease it caused...do you still want to eat it??? 

The film sadly continues to expose the whaling and dolphin industry, mainly in Japan. Images one can only bare to watch for a few minutes without getting sick. I didn't know this was happening, I had always considered these amazing animals something pretty incredible, not anything we would harm, and definitely not food! Earthlings then goes on to expose fur farms, the circus, zoo, and animal testing. Very disturbing images of animals getting their fur removed while they are still alive, monkeys being used to simulate head injuries, and it goes on and on. I cried through the entire movie.

Is this just one of those "shock factor" movies made to make us feel bad or scared? Some might say it only exposes the bad and doesn't show the good, like local beef farms, or no-kill shelters. It is shocking, only because this is reality and it is the majority! I bet 90% of Americans DO NOT purchase local farm-raised meat, or local raw milk from the dairy farm. We get these items from a HUGE grocery store, and they get them from industrial meat/dairy factories. We don't care or question the quality of the food, the living conditions, the horrible of work conditions, and the disease and illness these foods have caused...not to mention the stress put on the environment. It is easier not to ask questions because we know the answers would make us angry. 

I want to know, I want to teach my child the truth, I want to stop this madness, I DON'T believe that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance equals health issues, disease, pollution, destruction, and a horrifying future for our kids and grand kids. Selfish? Yes we have become a selfish and greedy specie, where we ONLY think of ourselves. The problem here is that as we live these lavish, over fed, yet empty lives, and karma is already winning. This lifestyle has created more problems, more illness, more death, more addiction, and more mental disorders than ever...KARMA!! So maybe this selfish behavior is proving to be destructive, and change is needed now more than ever. When we start opening our eyes to the devastation we have created and are supporting, we can begin making changes, but as long as we keep our eyes and minds closed and turn the other cheek we will continue down this path. 

You decide...but your decision will effect me and my family, so please don't be selfish!

Everybody needs to watch this film!!!!!
   http://earthlings.com/?page_id=32