Our metabolism forgot us

Performance script for event EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

Performer 1: I don't remember what I ate as last thing

Performer 2: I don't know where is my last tooth

Performer 3: I can't track my last breath

Performer 1: Counting!!

Performer 2: Consuming!!

Performer 3: Consisting!!

All together: Co ----------------------- o -------------------- w !!!

Performer 2: Cows are heterotrophs, consumers in our ecosystem. There are currently approximately 1.3 to 1.5 billion cows grazing, sleeping, and chewing their cud at any given time on planet Earth. These 1,300 pound animals eat a lot. Much like humans, when they eat, gas builds up inside of their guts and has to be expelled.

Performer 1: Rapid production of co2! 

Performer 3: This mountain is the technology, absorbing the gas from the tourists.

All together: Hu -----  ma -----------------------------------an!!!!!

Performer 3: We don't seem to remember what we have digested. and what we are made out of. 

Performer 1: Slow cancelation of human!

Performer 2: Here, the joys of consumption remain ambivalent, pleasure eating itself. 

Performer 1: There’s a cruelty we cannot handle and a generosity we cannot begin to digest.  

Performer 3: This conflicted feelings stay in my belly, our metabolism forgot us.