We are lucky enough to live in a country where the majority have access to the entire worlds accumulated knowledge at a moments notice. Your only limit is your data plan or download speed, so why do people in the year 2016 still have absolutely no idea how to wield it properly?

I recently was browsing facebook and noticed a meme my friend had posted, nothing too outrageous like Obama is behind 911(or was he), just making fun of animal rights protestors- I’m the last person you’ll see telling someone that’s not funny or chastising them for a perceived lack of a sense of humor, but this was something that I just had to comment on and set straight.

The meme showed a picture of animal protesters standing in front of the milk aisle at a grocery store, they had signs and pictures, and their message was that cows shouldn’t have to die for milk. The meme was of course making fun of these protestors, you don’t kill cows to make milk DUH- and at first glance, I laughed.

It doesn’t take long too Google something, it’s so easy and synonymous with searching that Google is a verb these days instead of a company. Four minutes into Google and chill I was a subject matter expert, I skimmed through a few sites some pro animal and some pro eating animals but one thing was clear: although obviously the action of milking the cow doesn’t kill it, the cow is forced to be perpetually pregnant for years, is beaten and abused, and the constant stress and torment drains the animal and takes its average 20 year life span down to less than five, and in the end yes they are slaughtered the same as cows bred for meat- just takes a few extra years of torture.

Now you may have tuned out by now but I can assure you this isn’t some diatribe trying to convince anyone to go vegan(I sure as hell am not doing it) the point is that misinformation is so widespread that people will literally take anything at face value, as long as it’s something they already believe- animal protestors are dumb liberal hippies that don’t understand the world, so the meme must have been right.

Practice safe memeing and #searchbeforeyoupost , let’s at least ATTEMPT to cut down on the crap that circulates online- and let’s at least ATTEMPT to think outside our respective boxes.