To me, the biggest issue I have with people is our inability to break from our traditions. So many people do things simply because that's what 'people do' - things like looking down towards different races, different genders, our natural world, animals...I have tried my best
to be even handed and open to all things, all differences, and to listen before I speak, but the hardest intolerance for me to deal with is the senseless manner in which we treat animals. Stolen from nature, purposefully overbred for food, slaughtered endlessly, and all so lazy people can have cheap food, or, perhaps so the excessively rich can adorn themselves in fur. All of these practices are old, outdated, and have no place in 2010. The simplest argument is that no animal deserves to suffer at the hands of humans. Not 10 years ago, and
certainly not today.

　Without understanding, without an ability to break from traditions, we, as a people, will never move forward. Doing anything simply because "that's what I was taught" is an uninformed view of the world. Please, for a healthier world for us, and the animals, and the world itself - think about all the choices you make in your life. Ask where your food comes from, find out where  your computer was made, learn about how to not support sweatshops when buying clothing. Being informed is the only way we can make intelligent decisions, and the only way we can keep this world a place we want to live. You can change anything you want to, from your diet, to your environmental impact, to what you believe. Everything can be different, and
everything can always get better. Thank you.