Movements of the future are.. .

This whole “we can't do that because that would be just stupid” attitude for me is really old fashioned way of thinking. What are some really old habits that people don't seem to get rid of? Armies, bombs, gasoline, gold and diamond rings...

I've been a vegetarian that eats fish for almost a year (what ever the right term is). (Why? I don't think the Earth can support 6-10 billion meat eaters.) so I started thinking about the whole thing. Let's start with war. It's an age old way of expanding or keeping our own territories. It's been in fashion since the stone age and for my taste it's starting be a thing of the past.

The world is rapidly turning into this one unified place that we as a movement call globalisation. It has it's ups and downs put eventually it will diminish borders like it's already done in Europe. We can now move freely, use the same currency and even cross-border shopping is a reality thanks to Amazon and eBay.

So as the world is getting smaller independence of nations is becoming irrelevant. We are not defending anymore our countries but our ideologies and larger cultures such as communism, capitalism, freedom of speech etc. The future isn't in independence but in movements. China is no longer a communist country but a mixture of many things. It's a country that isn't fighting with other countries anymore, but it's fighting with it's self. Young generation wants consume and party all day long when the old folks want things to be the same, meaning the family values and traditions (not the spying and torture and other human right issues).

Inside the nation is were the modern battles are fought. Of course there are these countries that still rely on good old methods of controlling their citizens when fighting abroad. They praise certain gods or make people think that everything they do they do it for their great nation and their wonderful citizens.

I mentioned that different movements are the future but nationalism isn't one of those. It's a nice thing but when you use that feeling to death and destruction it's not that nice..

Movements have to start from somewhere. For example most of us want a world without wars and killing. What does that kind of movement need? I'll tell you what it doesn't need. It doesn't need armies. Solution: Let's not join the army. I didn't think it that way when as a kid (18 years old) I had the choice between army or voluntary work for 12 months. Nowadays I've been thinking about resigning from the army, if it's somehow possible.

Russia attacked Georgia or Georgia attacked Russia. How ever it went now Finnish people are AGAIN talking about joining NATO. Wouldn't it be much cheaper to just destroy all our tanks and machine guns and destroy the whole Finnish army? Since no one in public dares to think that Russia is a threat to us where do we need our army?

Wouldn't it be cool if Finland was the first real nation (Monaco, Vatican and Andorra are not real countries to me) who dismantled it's army? That would really be the movement of the future. I know it sounds stupid but can you imagine the worlds first vegetarian who said to his/her friends that he/she doesn't eat meat because it's against his/her values and moral?

Chicken, Cow and Pig went to the market...

Read this:
The Pleasures of the Flesh

“the grain required to fill the tank of a sports utility vehicle with ethanol … could feed one person for a year”

"While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals. This could cover the global food deficit 14 times."


"The FAO calculates that animal keeping is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental impacts are especially grave in places where livestock graze freely."


I don't want to preach on this matter. I just want you to know the facts. You do what you think is for the best.

Taxing vegetables

I started wondering why are the vegetable plates in restaurants about the same price as meat plates. Or for that matter price per kilo for many vegetables is almost the same as the cheapest meat.. How is that?

So my suggestion is that meat should have higher taxes than vegetables. To me that would be just logical. I mean meat requires many times more energy compared to all the green stuff that pops out of the fields (meat eats, it has to be killed, stored, chopped in to pieces, packed). So how come it doesn't show on the prices?? Somebody is manipulating the system and I don't like it.

Food is getting more expensive by the week and to me it's not fair to punish those who are trying to change the system by making it more sustainable. Instead they should be awarded (tax cuts for green stuff) so that more people would join them.

Ok Ok, I'm a vegetarian these days but that doesn't mean I want these tax cuts so that I could save money. I still buy Spanish tomatoes because they are cheaper even though it's not the ecological thing to do.. But the day I start earning some real money, instead of living from social security, I promise to start buying local products.

I only wish they would invent a banana tree that stands the cold winters of Scandinavia. Well not exactly. Gene manipulation is not really my thing either...