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People with good parents get so offended when abused children speak negatively of their parents. Like…REALLY offended lol.
They say things like “Your mom would do anything for you” and “Your parents sacrificed a lot for you!” and “I don’t respect anyone who talks down on their parents.”
But just because YOUR parents would do anything for you and sacrificed a lot for you doesn’t mean it applies to all parents. We don’t have the same experience boo. You can’t tell me shit about what my mama would do for me. All moms and dads are not created equal.
hey if any if you want to donate cases of bottled water to residents in flint, send them to:
Triumph Church
1657 Broadway Blvd.
Flint, MI 48506
omg please do, they can’t even bathe without getting rashes, let alone drink water. this hits too close to home
If you can’t afford to or don’t care to ship water, there are other ways you can help! You can donate money to the Flint Water Fundso they can purchase water or filters, or to the Flint Child Health & Development Fund to directly help kids affected by the lead. If you don’t have money,sign this petition to stop making Flint residents pay astronomical rates for unusable water. Water bills average $140 a month in Flint, and the city is trying to force them to pay, beginning with shutting off water, but since that’s not much of a punishment, I imagine they’ll end up sending people to collections for unpaid bills.
Other places to send money, water, or filters include:
Small Amounts/Money
Catholic Charities Center for Hope 517 E. Fifth Ave. Flint, MI 48503 Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm 810-232-9950
The American Red Cross 1401 S. Grand Traverse Flint, MI 48503 Saturday and Sunday, 9am – 4pm 810-232-1401
100 cases or more:
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan 2300 Lapeer Rd Flint, MI 48503 Call ahead to 810-239-4441
Truckloads:
United Way Emergency Center 111 E. Court St. Flint, MI 48502 Call ahead to 810-232-8121
REBLOG EVEN IF YOU CANNOT DONATE; MAYBE OTHERS CAN.
petition to ban “slideshow” as an article format on the internet
can we also ban “literally just a video under a headline, not even transcribed underneath, not even done for this site or by people who work for it” while we’re at it
PETA is protesting wool again…. so here we go into exactly why animal fibers aren’t an act of cruelty.
Actually it’s a lot more simple than people think. A fiber animal, any of them, sheep, alpaca, bunnies, goats, ect, only grows good (sellable) fiber when they are healthy and happy. The original fleece that my team bought last year for sheep to shawl turned out to be from a sick sheep. The entire fleece broke at the same point, which is exactly what happens to any fiber animal that’s sick. The fiber they grow when they’re unhealthy in ANY way breaks. Not only did we return the fleece, but the farmer had to put their entire flock in seclusion and not sell any fleece for two years. Not kidding. It was a virulent bacteria her flock had.
If a fiber farmer treats their animals in the way that PETA claims, they would be financially ruined in no time flat. A fiber animal that’s sick or unhealthy in any way only produces fiber that’s good for mulch. Unsellable, barely useable, mulch. Fiber animals HAVE to be kept healthy and happy for the simple reason that that’s how they end up producing a quality product. Claiming that fiber farmers commit acts of cruelty in their raising of their animals would be like claiming that grocery store employees go around smashing all the products with a baseball bat and then still expecting you to buy it. It just doesn’t work that way.
Fiber farmers generally have their largest bill as the vet. Literally most of them spend more on vet bills annually than they do on feed. And they do this again, because maintaining the health and well being of their animals is in their best interest. What’s more, most fiber animals cannot shed and their fleeces carry a lot of bacteria from trapped fecal and vegetable matter. Not only do they become tremendously overheated, but ill from the trapped bacteria.
What’s more…. Never trust an organization, any organization, that provides no research, documentation, or information beyond their own. Feel free to go digging through PETA. Every single one of their bits of information comes directly from them.
PETA has a clearly and bluntly documented goal of no domesticated animals at all. This means the eradication of all those domesticated animals that we have like dogs, cats, and the variety of livestock. In fact their pet shelters do extremely little adopting and kill the vast majority of the pets they get in. We, as a species, have spent countless millennia domesticating and breeding animals. These animals have become dependent upon our intervention. If we weren’t caring for them they would die.
So it seems rather strange to me that an organization titled “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” has a bluntly stated goal of eradicating a great deal of the animals they claim to want to help. Somehow, I believe that a healthy happy animal, regardless of whether it’s raised for a job or not, is a whole lot better than a dead one.
PETA, go fuck yourself, you vile spewers of crap information.
I just saw one of PETA’s pictures where someone is holding a mutilated sheep, all cut up, and they were trying to claim it happened during shearing. On top of all of the above reasons, if a farmer did that, the sheep would develop scar tissue which would cause the fiber not grow in those sections. It’s totally against the farmer’s best interests to do that.
PETA is the worst.
“Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week.
You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30.
Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.”
If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider.
But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable.
I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know.
If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems.
There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.””
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