Tomorrow's hamburger, this factory farmed cow is down and dying. We teach children that control comes from the top of our society from governments and large corporations in the form of laws, policies, and technological advances. In this model, the citizens are passive, waiting for solutions to be handed to them by those that are assigned the job of taking care of them. We become separated from our hearts and lose touch with our common sense. We give away our power and become dependent upon faceless entities with whom we have no contact.
Disconnection becomes a way of life.
We must rethink the way we educate our youth. What if all curricula at all levels of teaching contained some of the following principles. Teach children that no life form is better than another. All forms of life are part of a larger web of life. Getting students out into nature, even if it just to a patch of grass in the parking lot, to observe the endless connections can help develop a reverence for all life.