Fire
"All of life is, in a sense, a transformation of energy into form"
The Earth Path pg. 99
Intention: The idea that element fire is based on energy is the key to this piece. This passage from the book gave me an idea which I will tell you in a little bit; here's the passage...
"Because each transformation requires energy, some energy is used up as we climb each tier; less energy is available, and therefore each tier supports fewer individuals. There are far more grass plants than there are deer, for example, and far more deer than cougars and coyotes. The tiers of transformation form a pyramid, with its base the plants that directly convert sunlight, and it's top the predators."
My girlfriend lives a vegetarian lifestyle. Here existense in my life over the last year and gotten me to question some choices I have about what I consume. Almost everyday, I have lived the part of a carnivore, yet I can not say that I am a predator. One of my goals in life is to be able to do this: to kill and prepare what I eat. To do this, I have to ask my mother and family members who practiced animal husbandry when they lived on the farms in the Philippines.
I am a little embarassed to think about the meat I eat that came from packages and I have no idea on the quality of the animals' life and how the meat got from point a to point b. Hopefully, with this knowledge, I can make more conscientious decisions on what I eat.
Context: I would like to make something that informs people of how their food is prepared. I'm beginning to believe that the saying "I didn't want to know..." is a false way of thinking. Pamplets are a great way to spread information. In the pamphlet would be a step by step procedure to kill a chicken. The way my parents and their parents had to do when they lived on the farm.
Audience: My audience would be the people of supermarkets that buy their meat that have been packaged and sent from many different locations.
Medium: Again, this would be a pamphlet placed in the meat section of a supermarket.
Scale: Average. It would look like a normal pamphlet.