I am surprisingly calm now about the whole car crash thing of Friday morning. Almost as if it was a dream or something. No aches and pains any more, no fretting about the insurance etc - it's out of my hands so no point worrying about it eh? But what does go through my mind is how easily the steel of the front of the car crumpled upon impact with the lamppost - bringing the damage and danger perilously close to my sexy footballers legs. They could have been crushed. This got me to remembering old facts about the very first cars being constructed back in the days of Henry Ford being stronger than the steel used today. So the car industry for all its flash advances, is at a very basic level more dangerous for people in a crash. And after a little bit of web rummaging, I found the following:
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
Why was my car not built of this same stuff? Why were my sexy legs not offered the maximum protection technology can provide? It is not that the cost is prohibitive - hemp is well known to be the fastest growing of all plants, and can grow pretty much anywhere, making it ridiculously cheap if an industry wished to invest. It would be a fantastic boon to American farmers - resurrecting an industry in the US which used to be thriving - George Washington even calling upon everyone to grow hemp for the good of their nation. Can it really be that governments are still confusing hemp with cannabis sativa? Surely they are not that stupid. Why do we not have car manufacturers investing in hemp built cars? Is it because they last longer and longevity is not an attractive trait for manufacturers in a capitalist world since if all cars last forever there is no future market?
I would genuinely like to know, because as it stands we seem to be a species of retards.
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About Me
- Nelsoni
- Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Who am I? I'm a youngish single vegetarian male who considers himself to be witty, intelligent, wise, charming, well mannered and fairly sexy - therefore a great catch for the ladies.
My cats
I have five cats, all of which live with my ex partner Nina. Luckily we are still very good pals so I get to see them lots. We decided when we broke up that it was only fair for the cats that they should remain in their home and not be split up, since they are a small family.
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Why I am a veggie
The quickest answer is that I am a veggie because I care. I value all sentient life. If it has the capacity to feel pain and fear then I feel we should try to ensure that we do not cause that suffering. For the same reason I am against racism, imperialism, and the arms trade. For me human rights and animal rights are linked. Studies have indicated that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against humans.
I have heard many meat eaters try to absolve themselves of blame for the deaths of the animals they eat. "They are already dead, if I don't eat them someone else will". This denies the reality of supply and demand. When you stop buying meat someone else doesnt come along and but up all the surplus that you didnt buy, as the argument suggests. What it means is that less meat is sold, however fractionally small this is. This fall in demand, if measured along with all the other people who are giving up meat (or at least buying less due to health concerns) leads directly to less supply - and less animals being raised and killed. That's what I want - a reduction in the sum total of pointless and painful deaths.
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