People, etc.
Gumby and Pokey.
My nine-year-old self.
Alexander Calder's cleaning lady.
Benefactors for my quest for universal domination and a wishing well.
And Peter Max.
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What if someone told you they ate babies? Would you say, "I see. I just choose not to eat babies, but I don't want to force my views on anyone."
Many of you have asked me why I am vegan, not just vegetarian. Here is one of those reasons (thanks to AFA for the following):
“How weak cows enter food chainâ€
Emaciated, calcium-depleted dairy cattle are turned into meat
Excerpt:
A videotape of crippled "downer" cows being mistreated at a California plant prompted outrage from animal welfare groups, a rebuke from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the plant's closure, criminal charges, a lawsuit, congressional hearings and the largest meat recall in U.S. history.
But the video also has focused new light on a practice that some animal welfare and food safety experts say is an old problem: the use in beef production of dairy cows that are spent and barely able to stand due to calcium depletion from being milked intensively for years. …
Dairy cows that are done giving milk make up about 17 percent of America 's annual beef slaughter, according to the Humane Society of the United States , which videotaped the cow abuses at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. in Chino , Calif.
Prices for "culled" dairy cows can be half to about a tenth of the price of a fully fed steer in the beef market. The reason for the discount is that some dairy cows go to slaughter plants in rough shape. Typically, they have often been milked for several years, leaving their bodies without the muscle, fat and calcium of grazing, well-fed beef cattle.
I adopted a cute lil' pirate fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
Aaaaaargh! Doing my part to reverse global warming.