Self Destruction

I was reading this article http://www.pacificfreepress.com/content/view/1175/81/, and I thought about how I've been feeling for years - It may take a major disaster to open the eyes of human beings. We have gotten so far away from nature that we don't even think of how our actions affect other beings. Speciesism is destroying us. Although is very important that bees are dying, I think this issue has gotten attention only because bees are our slaves. We use them for honey, and if there isn't any honey, someone won't be making money. We think of a species' importance is based on our direct dependence on them. As the article mentions, all species are interdependent, but we don't always make the connection. Human beings seem to think everything exists for their use/enjoyment. We have lost the connection with nature and our environment, so when something happens that we don't like, we have no idea why it happened. These are some of the things human beings do:

• We feed our babies the milk of other species and continue to feed it to them after they should have weaned and we drink it too
• Kill BILLIONS of animals for no f**king reason other than they "taste good"
• Torture the animals we kill, and force them to live unnatural lives that deny them basic needs like sunshine, the need to move, and companionship
• Rape the earth of her resources to make our toys (cars or whatever) run
• Genetically modify and engineer plants without wanting to notify the public and without consideration to how other species are affected
• Put money above everything, including the truth
• Get so disconnected from our bodies that we don't believe our emotions affect our health
• Dissect everything including our food so we don't even think of whole foods. We think of proteins, carbs, calcium, etc.
• Take manufactured drugs to repress our symptoms of sickness rather than allow our bodies to purge and heal themselves

You know, this list could go on forever. However, the point is we humans end up hurting ourselves and others the more we distance ourselves from nature.