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Meatrix Cartoon Explains How Factory Farming Affects Your Health

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I’d never even heard of “factory farming” until a few months ago, when a friend of mine who I meet for lunch a lot insisted on only eating at certain restaurants that serve organically-grown meat. It was horrific thinking about the stuff he was telling me, and I wanted to know more.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a lot of scary stories about the FDA approving cloned animals for public consumption. It seems to me that there’s no way for the FDA to be sure of anything with regard to even the short term effects of humans eating cloned animals, much less the long term effects that, theoretically, would have to be explored in depth before such meat was allowed in to the open market.
So anyway, that’s why I’m starting a “Farming and Health” category. This shit’s getting pretty frightening, and enough is enough. I don’t know what we can really do about it yet, but I do feel that I have to help get the word out somehow.
Then, this morning, another friend sent me this wonderful animation that explains the factory farming situation in great detail. It’s funny as hell too.

The Meatrix
There’s a bunch of good information at the end about what you can do to help fight this stuff. More articles on this soon (and the relationship between factory farming and the cloning stuff).

A Home Grown Daily Show Of Sorts – Courtesy of Big Toe Productions

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Damian Griffin wrote me last week to let me know about his own sketch comedy routine that was crafted in the classic The Daily Show fashion. It’s pretty funny! I’m jealous, because one of my secret fantasies is to have a sketch comedy show of my own someday.
Damian is also an animator. His animated short film has been in about 17 festivals across the country.
Here’s the clip (and a bunch of information about it below):

Big Toe Productions – Up To The Minute News
Here’s a description from Damian in his own words:

Like most of you I love the Daily Show and think its the best social satire we have going right now. Jon Stewart is the greatest!
A few months ago I had the opportunity to attempt a Daily Show-esque newscast during a sketch comedy show in Denver. I recently digitized the last newscast I did and decided to post a clip of it to be humiliated by the message board.
But first, a few disclosures about the clip and show.
The Quicktime clip is about 7minutes long and about 18mb. It was done on May 31st, 2003.
This clip has stage lighting, interesting camera work, and is sometimes a little hard to hear.
I am not Jon Stewart and don’t claim to be anywhere in his ballpark. This was just an unpaid gig and was just for fun.
I pretty much wrote the news segment and created the graphics over the course of a few hours on Friday afternoons shortly before the show, with little to no time for rehersal. I found it to be sometimes daunting for one person, but overall extremely rewarding and enjoyable.
There were 28 newscasts in all.

Awesome Animation On How Katherine Harris Rigged The Already-Faulty Voting Purge Lists In Florida From 8,000 to 58,000 Voters

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…with a little help from Florida’s 1998 Voter Reform Law.
Here’s an awesome video/animation from Eric Blumrich w/music from Grand Theft Auto:
Grand Theft America
Time’s ticking away guys, we’ve got to do something or they’re just going to do it again in 2004.
This animation was based on findings in Greg Palast‘s report:

Theft Of The Presidency.
There’s real video of it available too.
(Thanks, Jason)

Rockin’ Chair Planet

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So I know what you’re thinking: “Well Lisa, are you going to spend all of your blogging time on shameless self promotion, complaining about the Shrub and whining about the rapid demise of our constitutional freedoms?” (Blah, blah, blah blah-blah blah.)

Well I suppose I could lighten up long enough to watch a nice Shockwave Animation from my friend John Gentry that really helps put it all into perspective:
Rockin’ Chair Planet.