Have you ever read something that affected you so strongly that you couldn’t shake it? Something that gripped your heart and brought you to the depths of sadness? This is what stories about animals, or sea creatures in peril, do to me. I stumbled upon an article today, written in the Washington Post, about a beautiful, young 15 foot whale. He’d been found washed up on the beach in the Philippines, his belly rock hard with 88 pounds of plastic. The line that I cannot get out of my head is, “The current off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao had washed away the blood it vomited before its death. ” This innocent creature God put on Earth to live and swim in beautiful clean seas, killed by the stupidity of man. It sickens me.
Paper or Plastic? How insane is it that we produce millions and millions of these plastic bags that our innocent creatures eat–they eat them because they think they are FOOD! They are covered in algae; they smell like food, but alas, they simply cause the poor creatures to starve to death. We all know our oceans are polluted, filled with garbage that is causing death everyday–but we don’t have to continue to CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEM. Please STOP THE PLASTIC… the straws, the plastic 6-pack rings… please. Can you imagine being so hungry that you continue to eat plastic bags? Can you imagine getting a 4-inch straw jammed up your nose as did a turtle? Can you imagine being trapped in a mass of plastic netting and drowning? I don’t think that ANYTHING has made me so sad in a very long time and I intend to do something about it… something. I invite you to do the same–
DO SOMETHING. Anything. Start. Let’s BELIEVE we can make a difference.
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