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By Katie Kish, July 14, 2008 4:45 am

1/2 of America’s land…80% of it’s fresh water… 17% of fossil fules go to what? Producing food. The most energy intensive product? Meat, yo. The higher up you go from plant to beast, the worse it gets. Cows eat seven times more grain than Americans do – … seven times MORE people could eat, if the cows weren’t eating it…. and its all for those $50 steaks.

HOW MUCH ENERGY (IN CALORIES) IS REQUIRED TO MAKE A SINGLE CALORIE OF MEAT?
(from the September 2003 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
Lamb: 57 calories (~ 29 if pasture fed only)
Beef: 40 calories (~20 if pasture fed only)
Pigs: 14 calories
Turkeys: 10 calories
Broiler chickens: 4 calories

…So I don’t really eat a lot of meat.

I got telling someone about this today. …Then I started to rant a little bit, and my rant veered a little bit more than usual into the actual production of all processed foods. … Anything that’s been processed, sugar filled, packaged and shipped is just as bad for the environment as the aforementioned meat products. … So really, if I’m going to get all “environmental” not only do I need to not eat meat, but I need to eat local… unpackaged… organic food. … wtf.

I have issues with the organic food chains though. I think it’s all a disgusting scam to get hippies to spend too much money on something that helps so little that it doesn’t even matter. So we won’t be doing that. And local foods? Really the only time you can get “local” food in Guelph is Saturday morning. So if I don’t stock up, I’ve got issues. And if it’s a bad weekend at the farmer’s market, or if I …ya know, go to Toronto like I do every weekend, then I don’t get any. So there’s issues with that too.

So how do people eat, and ruin the environment less? …Americans and Canadians eat something like 3800 calories a day. What do people actually need? If I remember correctly something like 2000 – 2600 depending on your body type and gender. Which brings me to my real issue.

Beer.

I like it. A lot. but it’s processed, and full of calories. To brew a single liter of beer takes:

around 8 litres of water, huge amounts of mains power and gas, vast stores of barley and, mostly, the importation of packaging materials like glass bottles and labels from overseas

eek!

What’s my solution? I’ll continue to not eat meat, that’s fine. I can handle that. …I’ll try not to buy too much of the packaged and processed crap, but I can’t promise anything too drastic changing there. I’ll even cut back on like cheese or something. As for beer? I’ll stick with steam whistle! Local and delicious and environmentally aware. Although it will be hard to steer away from strongbow. so. stupidly. delicious. >< mmm.

But you know, this only furthers my argument that we should stop serving so much alcohol in bars. It would be better for the environment. And we could turn all the bars into the new one that is fuled by people dancing. …And just sell XTC. Then they’ll dance more! And won’t drink beer! And won’t eat meat because they won’t want to eat anything! Then, not only will everyone stop eating meat so that we can stop doing horribley embarassing things to cows (like collecting all their farts on their backs) but everyone in the world will be SO happy. And we’ll all love each other and listen to techno.

And then everyone would sparkle and shine various colors like this:

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By Katie Kish, February 6, 2008 4:56 pm

“Stewie, your head is so smooth. How the… how…how are you doin’ that?”

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=QHG8cjI5B-w[/youtube]

More times than I can count the topic of drugs has come up around my dining room table, either just in passing or because my brother wants to get a rise out of my stepdad. … Every time the topic comes up my stepdad (Paul) goes off about how “fucking stupid” (yeah, ministers say fucking!) pot is, how he has never tried it and so on and so forth…

My brother then tries to explain to him that it’s completely fine. And of course because Paul is like 90 (or like 65…) he tells Andrew to STFU because he is just immature and doesn’t realize the true dangers in the drug. He also goes off about how cigarettes wouldn’t be legal if they were being legalized at the same time as pot, not before. But the funny thing is – he never mentions alcohol – which is is apparently a firm believer in.

It’s not that I mean he’s an alcoholic, because by no means is he… but him and my mom have a bottle of wine with dinner, and he drinks a couple glasses of scotch. He doesn’t get drunk and stumble around the house or anything – it’s tasteful. Sort of like when Andrew or I take a few responsible tokes of a joint and go about our daily lives… or do it to just wind down from a busy day.

But pot is the bad guy! … I thought it was, right? … Last March alcohol was rated as “worse” than ecstasy on a new UK rating scale. In fact both tobacco and alcohol were put as worse than XTC, LSD and of course marijuana.

They asked a group of 29 consultant psychiatrists who specialise in addiction to rate the drugs in nine categories. Three of these related to physical harm, three to the likelihood of addiction and three to social harms such as healthcare costs. The team also extended the analysis to another group of 16 experts spanning several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry, forensics, police and legal services.

The results?

Cocaine and heroin are the worst. Alcohol was rated at number 5, and tobacco at number 9 just after speed. Pot 11th, LSD 14th and XTC 18th. (The type of pot measured was skunk – so stronger than what people would have been smoking in the 60′s.)

The position of ecstasy near the bottom of the list was defended by Prof Nutt, who said that apart from some tragic isolated cases ecstasy is relatively safe. Despite about a third of young people having tried the drug and around half a million users every weekend, it causes fewer than 10 deaths a year. One person a day is killed by acute alcohol poisoning and thousands more from chronic use.

What the hell? So we can all go out to a bar and legally drink and smoke two drugs that kill millions upon millions of people ever single year – but we can’t pop a pill that kills less than 10 people a year?? And that is cheaper than a night of drinker?? And that doesn’t have the horrible hang over affect?? And that just makes you flat out happy?? And that doesn’t cause whiskey dick?? And that just makes sex better?? …………. What the hell. Fo shizzle.

I dont know why, but it was really hard to find a working version of this clip of Peter Griffin on ecstasy. But it’s hilarious. Just remember – just because you feel like you’re an amazing dancer on E, doesn’t mean you are…

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=J4H8ihMJhow[/youtube]

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By Katie Kish, October 25, 2006 2:31 pm

Man, you sure can tell based on my visitor numbers when I don’t do a real post for over a day. I’ve got a few brewing, but I won’t be able to get ontop of that until much later tonight. I have the show to worry about right now. I’m on air in 3 hours and have no content! Yeeeah! So if you’re a woman, and you’re reading this, and you’re free from 5 -6 … give my cell phone a call (250 858 4256) and we can have a chit chat on air about something you do! Yeeeah! Go Katie! Way to be organized!

Alright, lets dive into some news, shall we? The big one today seems to be the gay marriage shtuff in Jersey. I’ll never understand the controversy of gay marriage in a supposed ‘free’ ‘democratic’ and ‘secular’ country. Its sort of like how I’ll never understand why people use IE instead of Firefox.

A guy in Toronto is facing his 282nd charge for child pornography. Personlly, after my 135th charge I got the idea that it was illegal and stopped getting caught.

Bush isn’t giving up on the Iraq stuff. He knows his support is dwindleing and that we all think he is a moron – but he keeps up being a retard. Its pretty bad when people say that Iraq is better off with Saddam.

Korea is still whacked up… yo. I don’t even smile when I see bush anymore since he simply dismissed North Korea. (I used to smile because I thought he looked like a monkey and that’s cute. but now i just see a demon giving the world the finger.) I bet he’s a horrible father. Its like when a kid hurls a giant back of rocks at their little sister’s head and dad just says "Oh she just wants attention" and ignores it. …Uh, HELLO?! All those school shooters just wanted some attention too.

Its so fucked up on so many different levels that teen girls smoke to lose weight. And its not like an offical study will make them stop… My sister smokes because Carry from Sex and The City smokes. …There should probably be more attempts to make smoking illegal or something. Its screwing kids up at a lower and lower age every time I look. Its like kids are starting to do drugs at a younger and younger age. Its pretty bad that we even have to start testing our junior boys for drugs in hockey.

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By Katie Kish, October 4, 2006 6:28 pm

Hempology 101
Originally uploaded by KianK.

So when people told me that *everyone* in BC smokes pot, I thought they were exaggerating, like how people say *every* environmentalist wears Burkenstocks… you won’t be suprised if they’re wearing them, but not all of them do.

Well turns out *everyone* in BC smokes pot. hahaha (Okay, okay, not everyone. but…gah)

So I walk out of the library at around 4:30 to get over to the station to sit in on my first show and all I can smell when I step out is pot. I was just going to keep walking, because I’ve smelt pot on campus a zilliion times. Then I look over and see a huge circle of people, there were probably about 60 people there. So I walk over and take my camera out (that many people gathered in public usually means a camera is going to be needed.)

Then I realize…they’re *all* smoking pot. All of them. They’re passing around like 20 giant joints. Now I’m from Toronto, you do this on the UofT campus and chances are you’re gonna get arrested or get a fine or something. But here, like 60 people… just, smoking up.

So I snap a few shots (there are more on flickr, check em out.) and continue on my way to the station. When I get there I tell Jana and Johanna about it …and Johanna looks at me "You’re not from BC are you?" hahahaha

It was then that it got explained to me that these people are the hempology 101 club, who also do a lecture series on campus. Every Wednesday at… I’m sure you can guess what time… …4:20, they go to the fountain and smoke pot. …SO not only am I living in the province with the BEST pot in the world, Im living in the province in the best FREE pot in the world. BAM take THAT Amsterdam.