Natural Limits - that pesky thing that keeps cropping up

Small boobs, thin lips, bald head, wrinkles? No problem. No money? No problem. Dead? No problem. We have a solution for everything. It's called advertising. In reality there are some problems we not only need to (and have to) accept, we also need to take responsibility for them.

clipped from www.dallasnews.com The thing is, we're living as if we are guaranteed to go onward and upward into a better and brighter future. Our nation's (relatively short) history encourages this fallacious thinking. Like spoiled children, we want freedom without responsibility. But that's impossible. You cannot defy the law of gravity forever. "The problem is that we have created the perfect environment in which to breed superbugs that are antibiotic-resistant," journalist Michael Pollan tells Dr. Groopman. "We've created a Petri dish in our factory farms for the evolution of dangerous pathogens." In the current issue of The New Yorker, Jerome Groopman writes of new antibiotic-resistant superbugs that defy medical science's abilities to combat. Part of the problem is the way we raise livestock in defiance of natural limits (that troublesome pre-modern concept again) to meet our ravenous appetite for cheap, abundant meat.