That plastic cup you tossed? It’s eventually going to flow into the ocean, joining the Texas-size trash island that’s threatening marine life in the Pacific. After she crunches the numbers on your day of good deeds and the receipt unspools from her Definitive Goodness Calculator, she gives you some bad news. So now imagine that you can call on some kind of Universe Good- ness Accountant, to give you an omniscient, mathematical report on how well you did. How much “goodness” did you actually achieve? You feel like you did some good stuff, but then again, you also felt like you could pull off wearing a zebra-print fedora to your office holiday party last year, and we all know how that turned out. What a great day.īut then you lie in bed, staring at the ceiling. You take a quick jog around the neighborhood (for health!), help an old lady across the street (for kindness!), watch a documentary (for knowledge!), check the news (for citizenship!) and go to sleep. Now the cows are even happier! Because they’re not dead! Remembering an article you read about the impact of the beef industry on climate change, you even pass on the hamburger meat in favor of veggie patties. It makes you smile to think of those cows munching happily on organic grass instead of being cooped up in some awful factory farm. Like what you see? Sign up to our newsletter for more stories like this.Īt the grocery store you spend a little extra to buy cage-free eggs and milk from humanely treated cows.
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