Nestle should be liquidated. If you have actual former fucking slaves testifying against your company for its exploitation and abuse of child slave labor there is no logical reason, other than profit, to be allowed to continue business. This goes for any business engaging in human rights violations—oh wait, there goes every billion dollar multinational corporation.

Seriously though, how much longer can this system continue? How many lives have to be lost? How many people have to suffer? How long will the negative impacts of the profit motive be excused as a necessary evil?

It kills me to think about, honestly.

This post is getting more notes than the news it’s based on so pls check it out and spread the word. People made a big enough fuss about SeaWorld to get the company’s attention, would be cool to see Nestle get the same treatment...

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me trying to find the bathroom in the bar after 3 - 7 vodka sodas

We are not worthy of Shinsuke Nakamura. 

Reasons why I like tumblr

1. None of my family is on here

2. Barely anyone in my life knows the website even exists.

3. employers won’t ask for my tumblr handle

4. Website doesn’t post a “timeline” with laser-targeted ads about me.

5. Non-algorythmic feed. It lets me read shit in the order it was posted.

6. Can’t see other people’s follower counts. Big and small blogs interact/mix better, no one is idolized.

7. No one, absolutely no one, can manage to make money off us little shits

8. The ads it does post are so random that they just make me laugh

I HAD NO IDEA WHERE SHE WAS GONNA GO WHEN SHE SAID “SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A LOAF OF BREAD” AND NOW I’M JUST. I’M LOSING MY FUCKING MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIND SDFUHDKJJFSDHSKJL

kitty foreman said fuck female socialization

I laughed way too hard at this

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!

OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT

HOLY SHIT

this guy GETS IT

Due to its unique characteristics, glitter has also proven to be useful forensic evidence. Because of the tens of thousands of different commercial glitters, identical glitter particles can be compelling evidence that a suspect has been at a crime scene. Glitter particles are easily transferred through the air or by touch, yet cling to bodies and clothing, often unnoticed by suspects.

Case examples include 3 different glitter types: glitter in cosmetic products,glitter used in arts and crafts, and glitter used in decorations on clothing. 

In one case: Illinois kidnapping and sexual assault [x]

A man grabbed a young girl walking in the woods near her home. With a knife heslashed her and her clothing, but she escaped and ran home. Her mother rushed her to a hospital and the young girl survived. She had been wearing a shirt that had a design in silver-appearing glitter. A knife slash had gone right through this area. A suspect was found and the same glitter particles were found on several items of his clothing.

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If I am murdered this is exactly how I want my murderer to be brought to justice. Covered in glitter and shame. 

So what you’re saying is that services like giftyourenemies.com could be used to find criminals? I love this.

COVERED IN GLITTER AND SHAME!!!

Ferb’s birthday is on February 29th (leap year day).

Murder at Disney

If Edna dissed me like that I’d have to throw my whole self in the trash out of shame.

Do you all know how much meatt a grown deer can yield?

A mature buck can yield around 60lb of meat.

I looked up some venison recipes. Each recipe asked for about one lb of venison for four servings.

That’s a good 2 weeks of dinners feeding a family of four. From just one buck. From just one morning out in the woods. If you go to Walmart, you can buy a one lb tray of groound beef for $4.48, leaving you paying almost $270 for the same amount of meat that the buck yields.

I know people who ONLY eat things they hunt themselves or that they’ve traded with other hunters and the amount of money they save on food is genuinely shocking. That money they save helps them pay their bills, buy toys for their kids, etc. The meat they don’t need helps other people feed their own families and save on food bills. Those people appreciate the environment and wild animals more than any militant vegan living in the city or suburbs because they have firsthand experience with their ecosystems. They understand how animals work, how they live, what they feel. They respect that, and treat those animals with respect by making sure they don’t go to waste.

Hunting is important.

Also anyone in conservation will tell you hunters are some of the BIGGEST contributors to environmental protection. There’s this idea that hunters destroy the environment but many ARE environmentalists- and like OIP said they understand the area better than most people! The fact that this is an important source of protein is so SO important but also hunters aren’t “the bad guys” for conservation efforts and I wish people realized that!

To add to this, I’m currently studying wildlife conservation in college.

Part of one of my courses is working at least 3hrs at a deer check station. Basically, hunters bring their deer in (sometimes just the head, sometimes the whole deer) and we age it, measure the antlers, weigh it (if possible), and ask the hunter to take a quick survey about what other species they’ve seen, and whether or not these numbers have increased in the past year. data collection like this is extremely important for managing wildlife populations, in some areas the deer check stations check for chronic wasting disease.

There’s a big difference between trophy hunters and food hunters.

I understand why people dislike leather and animal products. But leather is such a good resource? Like… My mom bought a sturdy leather coat in 1989. I’m in my 20’s and I now wear that coat. That’s a 30 year old coat? 30 years, two generations, one coat. Versus, like… A plastic one, that rips and gets thrown out, or releases bits into the ecosystem every time it’s washed, takes a billion years to decompose, lasts maybe a decade if you’re super duper careful, and uses oil products in it’s construction. Like, yeah leather is expensive and comes from a living animal, and I’m not saying that you should go out and buy fifty fur and leather products for the he’ll of it, but like… Maybe the compromise is worth it? One animal product, valued and respected and worn down for generations, versus like… Six plastic products that will never ever go away?

idk, I could be wrong.

this is why im so fucking pissed white colonial fucks and white vegans get so enraged at indigenous people for using hides/leather and animal bones as if that shit breaks or rips like cheap polyester does

Remember, kids:

It’s not “vegan wool”, it’s plastic.

It’s not “vegan leather”, it’s plastic.

It’s not “vegan fur”, it’s fucking plastic. It’s all plastic.

It’s all fucking plastic, and every time you wash it, or damage it, or try to dispose of it, that plastic winds up in the water, in the earth, in the air.

Hell, the damage has already done when the fucking thing’s been made. As the OP says, it’s all oil and oil products; it creates pollution just to produce synthetic fabrics and materials, even before you try to throw them away, which, I mean, good luck with that.

A lot of vegan ideology is built up around a very superficial set of ethics that are supposedly about protecting animals, wildlife and the environment, but they fall apart when you look even a little bit below the surface. Every time you eschew an animal-based product in favour of something “synthetic” for the sake of “saving an animal’s life”, you’re creating pollution and trash that won’t go away for thousands of years, damaging the Earth and making life so much worse for countless animals and people.

Think about this stuff more than not at all, please.

Eeeeeeverybody loves to get up my asshole because I wear fur. Yeah? Okay then.

When you live somewhere with -40C winter temperatures, you realize that pragmatism and warmth trump all other considerations.

I’m in and out of cars and buildings all day, every day. I have to dress for the weather and fur is hands down one of the warmest things you can wear — ask the fucking Inuit.

So you know what I do?

I check consignment stores. I check estate auctions. I get family heirloom furs.

I buy furs that are literally older than I am, in styles that would consign them to the dumpster, and then get them tailored to fit. My fur earmuffs? Salvaged fur from a coat that was ripped and functionally useless. My fur short coat? A fur that got raggedy and moth-eaten at the bottom and so was hemmed to hip height. My long fur coat is almost fifteen years older than I am, and I’m thirty one years old. Do that math.

So yes. I wear fur, because it fits my needs, my budget, and my ethics. The vegans wearing pleather can kick a brick. Only one of our coats is going to destroy the planet, and it isn’t my grandmother’s mink stole.

Not to mention the fact that buying these natural leather products from indigenous peoples both subverts capitalism (that wants you to buy cheap shit that breaks), and also supports indigenous communities and artisans.

I’m reading the notes and it’s really cute when people go “but use hemp! Use cotton! Try linen!”

Yeah?

Imma wear linen when the weather looks like this:

I am NOT going to wear hemp, linen or cotton when the weather looks like this:

When the weather outside is frightful, I’mma make like an Inuit and dress like this:

(Also, as you say: it is possible to responsibly source ethical furs. I prefer furriers like Victoria Kakuktinniq, who is an Indigenous Inuit fashion designer who interprets traditional fur designs for a modern sensibility. The funds from her clothing — and from other northern Indigenous communities — allows those northern communities to maintain their cultural traditions, while also introducing a much-needed revenue stream. If you have to buy fresh fur, Indigenous furriers are a good bet!)

@acti-veg this is just…. *sigh*

Which part is *passive aggressive sigh*?

Would it be the:

-reuse of fabrics and furs that are generally anywhere from 10-50 years old?

-recycling and repurposing of old or otherwise unusable materials like leather and fur to make smaller items like jackets, vests, gloves, hats and balaclavas?

-support for Indigenous traditions, handicrafts and artisans?

-recognition of the fact that there are very few plant-based products that will stand up to winters where the average temperature is anywhere from -20 to -50

I know, I know. Your ethics are itchy and it’s very simple to talk that good shit.

But let me introduce you to a Canadian phenomena: frostbite.

Frostbite occurs when your cells freeze. Your cells.

Ice crystals begin to form in cells in temperatures lower than -4C, which is what Canadians call “spring, fucking finally”.

In the teeth of winter, you get maybe ten hours of sunlight a day and your highest temperature is still double digits below 0C and the weather channel is saying “WEATHER WARNING: skin freezing in 30SECONDS”, and the government has put out a WEATHER EMERGENCY: EXTREME COLD WARNING.

When the weather is that severe, we don’t actually get the luxury of waxed cotton, woollen peacoats and a few layers of linen.

Sanctimony and sighs and good intentions don’t keep us warm.

Seriously, it hit -50F here last winter, linen and cotton don’t do fuckall in those temps.

Well, that’s not true. They DO, actually. They get wet from sweat and then get clammy and suck the heat out of you, leading to frostbite. Polyester is plastic, and I avoid that, because it’s bad for the environment.

You know what actually keeps you warm when it hits -50F? Wool, fur, and down. All animal products, all renewable and biodegradable, and all of which will last years with proper care.

I have two fur coats, both of which I paid $20 or less for at thrift stores, and both of which are vintage. Wool doesn’t harm the sheep it’s sheared from…they need to be sheared to stay healthy, actually…and down is harvested from animals that will be eaten, meaning none of the animal goes to waste.

Ah, yes. Truely, sheep live terribly. (Note; sheep wool is useless unles they have good pasture they’re raised on)

Ah, yes, the sheep are so mistreated when they’re sheared. A whole four minutes and they’re done. It’s like giving a fussy toddler a haircut.

And if they’re NOT shorn, you get flystrike, which I’m not going to post a pic of here because it is very unpleasant. Basically, flies lay eggs on the thick wool and the larvae eat the sheep’s skin off. It can be fatal.

https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/livestock-diseases/parasitic-diseases/fly-strike-warning-warm-wet-weather-continues

But please, tell me, the granddaughter of farmers who lives in farm country and who has neighbors who keep sheep, how sheep work.

Hi I’m the OP and I grew up dirt poor on a Canadian sheep farm and I support this message

To even pull away from cold weather folks, my people are all from Texas and Louisiana and leather is 100% useful for so many things. Tanned hides were a common good for us and surrounding tribes because they’re fucking awesome when it comes to rain protection, provide quick shade in the heat, and were a great way to protect your ass when riding an animal.

Tanned hides work great as a base for moccasins, because it’s thick enough to protect your feet from the heat of the packed dirt, and thin enough that your feet don’t sweat to death inside of them. In boots, I don’t trust any material that isn’t leather or reptile skin to protect me from animals or the elements.

Y’all really need to look at your anti fur/leather/wool campaigns and recognize the anti-Indigenous sentiment that runs through all of them.

I’m making bread

bread boys

my sons!

THEY’RE DELICIOUS

frog bread was tagged explicit. reblog the forbidden frog bread for luck and power