Watching and listening to birds is an enjoying experience.In our modern"civilization." The creation of human communities have pushed the remaining wildlife to pockets of "forest" or trees surrounded by roads and other decaying industrial civilization.Being awake early in the morning 6Am i enjoy observing the nature that survives on the Fringes of of civilization.The animals move about freely and can be observed with a little patience and experience .I live in a housing project a densely populated suburban community outside of Pittsburgh PA.I have observed the humans here who are either the generation of retired steel workers in decline and the generation of service working corporation consumers who are being dislocated from thier culture and asslimitated into the Program of Mass Destruction.(PMD)
I propose that a diet of mainly meat ie: (beef pork chicken fish and other animals) is a regression in human evolution to return to a primitive state of violent tendencies: like hotel California meat eaters are programmed to receive. You do not have a mind you have a brain.A mind would be that primitive state of alertness or instinct that early humans had for hunting and being hunted.Civilization evolved away from hunting into a secure diet of grain and vegetables where meat eating could be only afforded on religious holidays where celebration and confusion was normal.
Bird watching experiment 5-16-04
Sunday, 5-16-04, 6:00AM : The weather conditions cool, 60 degrees, mostly cloudy, Subjects: Starlings sparrows other participants: blue jay,robin,squirrel
While drinking my morning coffee I noticed my mother went shopping yesterday and decided to take a few packages of stale opened snack crackers and distribute them in the lawn for the birds.I appreciate the songs the birds sing and hope by feeding them they would return.Watching them feed is also a interesting pastime.Animals are intelligent and resourceful unlike modern humans who live in a disposable culture where little is reused and utilized.I have observed birds that use ground litter (human garbage)to construct thier nests.Also birds often place thier nests in gutters or below a overhanging roof surface to futher shelter them from the enviroment.I placed the snack crackers (town house) on the lawn below a second story window to achive silent observation above.Sittinng in the window.the House sparrows were the first on the scene in about 5 minutes.Next followed by starlings all birds ate together some grabed a peice from the lawn (Area 15 yard long line of cracker peices)flew away ate the cracker came back and got more.Some birds would retreive a peice and deposit the cracker on the concrete for eating some would swiftly try to steal those peices for themselves. Now for some reason always see lots starlings when the weather is mostly cloudy and very few when mostly sunny and clear.Last time i seen some Starlings someone had left a Styrofoam carton of several uneaten chicken wings near the sidewalk from the local convience store (people often litter in the housing project) And a small flock of starlings were eating the chicken wings like the crows. The starlings have sharp yellow beaks and a rainbow oilish glow to their dark feathers a natural secretion to waterproof them from the rain like a duck? Well when the starlings appeared on the scene I thought about feeding them some luncheon meat from the refrigerator to see what birds would do and influence their behavior if at all.
Now the luncheon meat i used was ham.As far as meat goes pork got a bad reputation the Jewish people and Islamic people don't eat it.A magazine i read "Expedition" Published by the university of Pennsylvania archaeology team recalls the Spanish Conquistadors abolishing native Central American cannibalistic religious practices and some of the Aztec's told the Spanish how pork from the newly imported pig reminded them of the taste of human flesh.(1) I took the pieces of luncheon pork (very greasy to touch) and deposited them along the sidewalk parallel to the 15 yard area of cracker pieces in the lawn,I went back up to my window to observe.
The Starlings almost immediately came to inspect this new food source different individuals inspected this without committing to consume it for a ten minute period soon a larger Starling began to consume this pork a green light for the others to gather in .The starlings about 10 to 15 in the flock began to converge and consume the pork.Some starlings were positioned on the power wires above some flying in to eat on the concrete. Now the house sparrows were uninterested in the pork and continued to pick away at the crackers happily and uncaring of the starlings.Around this time a pair of robins landed on the scene and scared away some of starlings and sparrows.The robins did not seem interested in any snack crackers or pork but just wanted to show a territorial display. the robins were eailer feasting on worms in the dew covered grass.Feeding resumed with much efficenticy the next apperence was a solidtary blue jay who scarttered the whole gang of starlings and sparrows to get some snack crackers.The last outside species apperance of the moring was the 2nd ranking mammal after me the neighborhood squirrel. who trotted up to the edge of the yard to look around but was probally full from the shelled peanuts left under pin oak and just wanted to put in a apperence also.
After the Starlings had eaten all the pork from the sidewalk the sparrows were still pecking at the remains of the snack crackers not visible from the window.An hour has passed since the feast began.the starlings having a taste of flesh seemed no longer to be interested in crackers but still stayed on the scene.A large adult Starling began to take charge with violence .Twice the size of a sparrow and with a long needle like beak the Starling tried to kill a sparrow for food. The first time unsuccessfully pinning the sparrow down and the second time with enough force to draw blood and screeching sounds of pain from the wounded sparrow.Then the other starlings began to join in with screeching calls of thier own maybe to join in the hunt. The Starlings unlike the sparrows are easily startled by human outsiders. I lifted the screen in my window and gave the sparrow a chance to escape followed by the large Starling in hot pursuit.
In conclusion the starlings and sparrows benefit from the waste of civilization.From a peaceful feast of snack crackers to a violent orgy of meat inspired murder. My control and manipulation of these creatures would seem repulsive to a animal rights person.But as the war hawk politicians being adults and experienced , like the adult Sparrow, takes advantage of other humans for their corporation profit.(and entertainment?)
The Instinct of the human Animal is being exploited daily and with more precise knowledge then my gift of old food for the civilized animals.Corporations encourage wastefull fast food sales, gas guzzling SUV's, high priced fashion labels, golden chains of wealth that imprison the person to earn and spend and waste over and over again.With the occupation of Iraq oil is firmly in their grasp and going to work at the corporation is done mearly for the profit of the wealthy because the individual must expend his wage to have his Transportation and home. I am a vegetarian. all people must learn to love each other and respect even the animals that we share our environment with.We have gone as far as civilization is concerned to the area where even a small action such as feeding the animals can have a drastic effect on the behavior of humans and animals.Can we say we will denigh humans a right to existence because of the damage of the Natural Enviroment?Will humans continue to destroy with no regard for tomorrow?
The Program of mass destruction's main theme is of course the "War on terror"This media bombardment of war, violence, destruction and recently sexual abuse Demoralizes a population into a "state of mind" where people accept the violent policies and propaganda of murder, national resource theft, and religious genocide for the consolidation of ethnic self-sustaining cultures into a monoculture of Single Task Oriented People (STOP).Where the individuals dependence is created and chained to corporation service and production in a global economy of cheap commodities and mass stupidity.often this process has been referred to as the (NWO) New World Order. But this definition is to define the product of this(nwo)The secondary theme of this(PMD) evil monoculture is Entertainment. Movies: like "the Alamo" "Troy" classic tales of violent wars between civilizations. Music: Rap music that encourages racial hatred, rock music that glorifies drug Addiction, and country just pure hopelessness LOL lost ( house, job, farm, wife, dog) Television:The 10 year run of Law & Order should educate you to behave.
The Program of mass destruction in the Untied States is easy to preceive once one has become a vegetarian.The waste of fossil fuel and natural resources for a short term profit is the product of PMD.The shift of Agriculture from a self-sastaining vareity of grains and vegetables to mass yields of grain or"monoculuture" growing an abundance of one product to compete in a global marketplace has created a monoculuture of human arrogance. 60% of grain grown goes to feed livestock unaturaly instead of feeding 1 billion humans who are starving in our world.Fossil fuel (oil,natural gas,coal etc..) is used to Fertilize the earth and create pesticides and other chemicals to compensate for the lack of crop rotation and natural defenses that a variety of crops will bring. (Insects that eat others) Since this method of wasteful agriculture dominates the Untied States,this monoculutre can be frightfully seen in human culture.The PMD uses television and other mass media to Promote waste of wealth and resource for corporation profit.The Fast Food Industry markets this unhealthy diet of animal protein for a (quick fill). Like stopping at a gas station to fill your tank but this human machine cannot digest the fuel.which leads to obesity ,diabetes, heart disease, cancer, you name it... Relying on the automobile for transportation excerise is a almost forgotten activity in adults.An example of a daily routine of a human adult in this monoculture.
