this is my least favorite thing to see in the world.
decision; not available.
younger, more lesbian version of dilbert. 22. BA in reading, sept 2010. now i'm working for some company that i don't like to give specifics about because it seems like weekly i have to take an ~*interactive learning course*~ on company privacy/security policies. hint: i am not using my degree in the slightest and i live in a cubicle. someday i will start a non-profit bookstore/public reading space. unless 2012. goodreads.
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ugh gpoy every day since getting back (only a week now, feels like forever). just want to hear from DU & then i can actually do what happens next, which is either move to denver or move to another, but always move. definitely move. i need to fucking move.
(Source: bellowen, via littlebribigworld)
Well your grammar leaves something to be desired too but since I’m not about policing people according to any arguably oppressive prescriptive grammar I’ll refrain from marking up your post. What I’m concerned with here is your inability to have an open mind when ive got no issue with YOUR viewpoint. Look peaches, I source my meat and milk from local (This is HER BABY.
That she has the right to bear on her own
YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO RIP IT FROM HER AT BIRTH.
Just so you can STEAL THAT BABY’S MILK.
It isn’t yours to take.
She isn’t a machine.
This is HER life. Her baby.
it’s really just that simple.
Well but it’s not that simple because she didn’t choose to have it either. Don’t get me wrong factory farming blows but there are ways to get cow’s milk without supporting the veal industry or the mega-farms.
maybe she didn’t choose to have the baby, but her anguish is no less when they rip her newborn away from her. The only way cows produce milk is by being constantly impregnated. There is no milk without cruelty.
Welp you can have yr opinions and I’ll have mine but I’ve got local dairy farmer friends with happy grass-fed cows that get to keep their babies and they are bffs with their people soooooo.
Dear God, your grammar is atrocious, and you fail to actually make a legitimate point in your statement. They still force pregnancy, I do not care where you are, cows HAVE to be continually pregnant in order to produce enough milk to meet demands. Cows are not a resource, they are a living sentient creature, who feels pain, and anguish.
Besides, dairy isn’t even good for us, we are the ONLY species to drink milk past infancy, not to mention that we steal it from another creature. You can not milk a cow efficiently and leave enough milk for her calf, you’re effectively stealing that babies milk.
So no, your happy little cows aren’t happy, they are still only dairy machines to you.
There is no open mind when it comes to the exploitation of another living creature, I don’t care where you get your meat or dairy, there is no way to get ethically or humanely. It always results in the death, or violation of an animal. I’m sorry, but unless a cow comes to you, tells you to milk her, force her to be pregnant, and rip away her baby, it isn’t with her consent, and is rape.
“Local sources” mean nothing when it comes to killing animals, it will never be justified by where you get it. THERE IS NO WAY TO HUMANELY KILL AN ANIMAL. Kill =/= humane. And that will never change, so stop pretending you have a moral compass while scarfing down the deceased flesh of a sentient creature.
Well looks like my phone was eating my posts, so that’s fun. Anyway, though, here’s the thing that you missed: what do you want for cows, then? They’ve been domesticated for 5000-8000 years, they’re terrible for the environment and for any sort of plant-based agriculture (with the exception of their manure, but keep a cow on crop land and it’s not crop land for long). I’m not suggesting you eat them or their byproducts, obviously, that’s your choice - but I’m curious what you want for these sentient creatures who have a right to their own children. Set them all free?
And since cows can’t consent either, it’s kind of problematic for you to call anything about it rape. I would argue it’s insulting to human survivors, but since you’re all for peace, love, and equality I’m sure you’re aware of that. Do you really imagine that wild heifers would just get in the mood sometime to get some and raise her own family of 2.5 calfs with a picket fence and a golden retriever?
I’ve got all sorts of problems with the meat industry and the dairy industry. But your original post is ludicrous. A cow may not be a machine but she is a domesticated animal. And though it’s not right to factory farm dairy, I don’t see any problem with small dairy farms. Clearly you’ve had very little personal experience with a sustainable dairy farm.
I’ll keep scarfing down my dead cows that lived a happy life and were killed humanely. You keep doing what you do. I’ve got half a dead steer in my freezer, and I met him this summer shortly before he was slaughtered on the same farm he lived for his entire life (6 years, by the way). Where he was grass fed and had access to shelter and more pasture than he knew what to do with. So, really, what’s the problem with that? Besides the obvious environmental issues that cows pose just by existing, but clearly you don’t want to just wipe the species off the face of the planet. So what do you suggest we do with cows, if not what I do with cows, which is a humane alternative to factory farmed, grain-fed (/cattle-fed) beef.
I suppose you’re against both human and pet euthanasia, then, if there’s no humane way to kill?
Well your grammar leaves something to be desired too but since I’m not about policing people according to any arguably oppressive prescriptive grammar I’ll refrain from marking up your post. What I’m concerned with here is your inability to have an open mind when ive got no issue with YOUR viewpoint. Look peaches, I source my meat and milk from local (This is HER BABY.
That she has the right to bear on her own
YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO RIP IT FROM HER AT BIRTH.
Just so you can STEAL THAT BABY’S MILK.
It isn’t yours to take.
She isn’t a machine.
This is HER life. Her baby.
it’s really just that simple.
Well but it’s not that simple because she didn’t choose to have it either. Don’t get me wrong factory farming blows but there are ways to get cow’s milk without supporting the veal industry or the mega-farms.
maybe she didn’t choose to have the baby, but her anguish is no less when they rip her newborn away from her. The only way cows produce milk is by being constantly impregnated. There is no milk without cruelty.
Welp you can have yr opinions and I’ll have mine but I’ve got local dairy farmer friends with happy grass-fed cows that get to keep their babies and they are bffs with their people soooooo.
Dear God, your grammar is atrocious, and you fail to actually make a legitimate point in your statement. They still force pregnancy, I do not care where you are, cows HAVE to be continually pregnant in order to produce enough milk to meet demands. Cows are not a resource, they are a living sentient creature, who feels pain, and anguish.
Besides, dairy isn’t even good for us, we are the ONLY species to drink milk past infancy, not to mention that we steal it from another creature. You can not milk a cow efficiently and leave enough milk for her calf, you’re effectively stealing that babies milk.
So no, your happy little cows aren’t happy, they are still only dairy machines to you.
“It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson in a letter to Sam Ward (via bookshavepores)
This am I right.
Lolololololol fights on the Internet. Really excited to get home and reblog something that my phone won’t cooperate with.
Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading
“Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper. A screen always feels like we could delete that, change that, move it around. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it’s just not permanent enough.”
This is literally how a 90-year-old person talks about computers.
“But it’ll just disappear! How do I know it’s still there when I turn the page? Get my grandson on the phone—he knows about these things.”
Grandpa Franzen strikes again.
It is a really kooky line of thinking.
This is a cute point but irrelevant cause I can always move stuff around in a real book too. And I do. I mean, probably there’s no real problem with e-readers besides personal ones, and upsetting the literary elite cause for the most part e-books are “bad” but like whatever. I’m not going to stop buying real books anytime soon but what’s it to me if somebody uses an e-reader? The more reading, the better.
(via 52projects)
Sweet lord, I want to make these… right after I figure out how to sew sequins by machine, though. Doing this by hand probably qualifies as a special circle of hell.
i get the feeling that just seeing this might make yrstruly’s hand hurt.
Ugh the worst circle of hell. You talkin bout me??? Cause hand sewing sequins and I go way way back.
(Source: kerevizinsapiyim)
This is HER BABY.
That she has the right to bear on her own
YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO RIP IT FROM HER AT BIRTH.
Just so you can STEAL THAT BABY’S MILK.
It isn’t yours to take.
She isn’t a machine.
This is HER life. Her baby.
it’s really just that simple.
Well but it’s not that simple because she didn’t choose to have it either. Don’t get me wrong factory farming blows but there are ways to get cow’s milk without supporting the veal industry or the mega-farms.
maybe she didn’t choose to have the baby, but her anguish is no less when they rip her newborn away from her. The only way cows produce milk is by being constantly impregnated. There is no milk without cruelty.
Welp you can have yr opinions and I’ll have mine but I’ve got local dairy farmer friends with happy grass-fed cows that get to keep their babies and they are bffs with their people soooooo.
This is HER BABY.
That she has the right to bear on her own
YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO RIP IT FROM HER AT BIRTH.
Just so you can STEAL THAT BABY’S MILK.
It isn’t yours to take.
She isn’t a machine.
This is HER life. Her baby.
it’s really just that simple.
Well but it’s not that simple because she didn’t choose to have it either. Don’t get me wrong factory farming blows but there are ways to get cow’s milk without supporting the veal industry or the mega-farms.
Miss u midtown, no matter how foggy and rainy and windy and snowy and cold you were to me, I still miss you. I need to leave and soon, you know. Maine probably. Who’s gonna come with me yeah?
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long
Our friends say it’s darkest before the sun rises
We’re pretty sure they’re all wrong
I hope it stays dark forever
I hope the worst isn’t over
And I hope you blink before I do
Yeah I hope I never get sober
And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can’t find one good thing to say
And I’d hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You’d stay the hell out of my way
I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both diebeen a while.
This has been on repeat in my car since I’ve been back. Mostly because of the “I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here/someday burns down/And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away and I never come back to this town/again, in my life” etc etc cause there really is a junkyard a few blocks from my workplace and I don’t know how to feel about where I live right now
(Source: dolphinlegs)
Appropriating AA Milne stuff for metaphors about friendship since 2004. Well, at least for a while I can’t die because I’m already dead. Looks like it’s back to that old mantra for a while. Can’t believe it’s been just about 2 years since I heard it first.
Things I should expect but didn’t: book reading only make me miss DFW. Probably especially cause I just finished the lipsky interviews again.
