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Step One: Request free pet food coupons (usually for new products, but not always) or find really good coupons that make things free or close to it in your paper. These don't have to be for brands you'd use, or even terribly ethical brands, as they're not making any money and you'll be donating the product, diverting resoruces from buying food to other needs and hopefully allowing more animals to be saved. Step Two: Buy the food with your coupons, freebies, etc. Sometimes the companies will even mail small samples. Step Three: Donate. My local pet food store has a food and supply donation bin right by the front door, so I don't even have to take things I purchased to donate out to my car. The donated food goes to a local rescue and to a feral cat group. You can also take the food you get to your local shelter (check their policy first) or to your local food locker to give to families in need with pets. Your local battered women's shelter, if they take pets, may also need pet food. Another option is to keep some dog food (this works well for smaller bags, cans, pouches, etc) in your car and give it to homeless people you see with dogs- often they're feeding a decent share of their people food to the dog, so this helps both of them to get fed. Free pet food deals I know about: http://www.nutroproducts.com/yourfamily / This one will send you a coupon by mail. Say you have a dog and a cat, they'll send a coupon for each. http://www.mightydog.com/home.aspx?sid=1&p... One free can. Might not be worth the trouble since it's only a buck. http://www.bluebuffalocompany.com/sample/t... Please feel free to add any other coupons-by-mail or printables you know about.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18545/1... / Please go read the whole thing, it was hard to excerpt while retaining the meaning, but isn't real long. According to a comprehensive study by Carnegie Mellon University engineers, the type of food eaten by U.S. consumers is more important than the distance it travels in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, global warming. The two researchers found that food in the United States travels, on average, 1,020 miles (1,640 kilometers) to be delivered and 4,200 miles (6,760 kilometers) for its life-cycle supply chain. Although food is transported long distances in the United States, the researchers found that the “production” phase of food to consumers (the agricultural production and industrial preparation stages) contributes more to GHG emissions (83%) than its transportation phase (11%), with the final delivery from producer to retailer only contributing 4%. Weber adds his advice (which he says has been given for generations), “Eat a healthy balanced diet, with a minimum of processed food. Eat a moderate amount of dairy and meat. Eat more whole grains and veggies. Following that advice will probably reduce your carbon footprint."
Okay, so I get that because of our society's stupid obsession with breasts as a sexual fixation, some women are uncomfortable using them for their primary function in public. I seem to recall we've discussed this on DU once or twice. Well, some genius came up with some sort of blindingly bright apron thing to throw over, in order to protect people from the horrible fact that yes, human beings are in fact mammals. Except it doesn't really work, because it's some huge bright apron thing, not a cloaking device stolen from the Romulans. It's blindingly bright, doesn't appear to have any other conceivable use, and thus it's rather less discrete than just pulling one's shirt up (or using one of those special breastfeeding shirts, if you're so inclined) and feeding the kid. Rather, this thing is a big bright neon sign: PUBLIC BREASTFEEDING OVER HERE! ZOMG! BOOBIES! Using one of these things just reinforces stupid societal notions that breasts are dirty and sexual, and that we must be protected at all costs from seeing them in use. In a sane world, where we cared more about the health of mothers and babies than about preserving our stupid hangups, mothers and babies would be celebrated, not hidden and shamed. Ladies and Germs, I give you, the Hooter Hider. Yes, that's really it's name.  If there were an anti-woman hall of shame, I'd nominate whoever invented that eyesore.
They have a whole website devoted to faux-environmentalists who want to preserve nature so they have something to kill. http://www.sierrasportsmen.org / The section on indoctrinating one's kids into animal abuse and gun culture is especially disturbing. http://www.sierrasportsmen.org/sierrasport... / The funny thing is, their own policy admits that hunting is antithetical to maintaining a natural landscape: "Because national parks are set aside for the preservation of natural landscapes and wildlife, the Sierra Club is opposed to sport hunting in national parks." Makes sense. After all, nature is self-balancing without need for human intervention, and interference only leads to further destabilization. But the preceding sentences say the opposite. "Wildlife and Native Plant Management, Sport Hunting And Fishing - Wildlife and native plant management should emphasize maintenance and restoration of healthy, viable native plant and animal populations, their habitats, and ecological processes. Acceptable management approaches include both regulated periodic hunting and fishing when based on sufficient scientifically valid biological data and when consistent with all other management purposes and when necessary total protection of particular species or populations." http://www.sierrasportsmen.org/sierrasport... If national parks can maintain ecological balance without hunting, why is it necessary to manage nature by killing off animals for sport outside the borders of those parks? This is either cognitive dissonance sufficient to warrant mental health concerns, or shocking dishonesty. In either case, the Sierra Club deserves neither the money nor the support of those who care about the earth.
Y'know what I did? I took some of that Teese I got, cut it up, beer battered it (I just used Lelly's recipe http://lellyskitchen.blogspot.com / but with beer instead of soymilk,) deep fried it, and ate it with pizza sauce. It was delicious, and probably took six months off my life. Six delicious, greasy months.  I'm thinking about ripping off her recipe for battered and fried pizza next. Because pizza, combined with fried food and beer, all in one horribly fattening dish, sounds like the perfect thing for a football season parked in front of my giant tv.
She called last year to tell me about driving by and seeing some rustics from a local church up on a hill reenacting the crucifixion in their boxer shorts- she's from California, so she's not used to that sort of religious silliness. The story was a riot, and flvegan and I were just dying laughing in his car while she was telling us about it, but unfortunately she didn't have her camera with her, and by the time she ran home and got it they'd called the execution off early due to rain. Well, this year she got the pics. Note the boxer short loincloths, they're my favorite detail, but Jesus' wig is pretty great too.  
PBS, the National Geographic Channel, and Discovery are gonna be All Jesus, All the Time until next sunday. As if there weren't already a dozen different flavors of Jesus Channel on cable- could they please get their superstition away from the few channels that show any significant science programming? On the plus side, it looks like the Hitler Channel isn't going with wall to wall lawd'n'savior coverage until friday- actually no religion until then except some thing on "UFOs of the bible"  thurdsay (apparently thursday is UFO day on History, they have a lot of that stuff on then.) For some reason Hitler Channel international starts with the Jesus stuff on thursday- apparently international viewers prefer crucifixion to anal probing. Kinky foreigners.  Anyhow, I'm annoyed by this. If Christians want god talk before Easter, they can go to church, or watch one of the eight squillion Christian channels. I pay for cable mostly to feed my documentary habit, and for the next week I'm not getting what I pay for because all the non-fiction channels are being invaded by fiction. So here's the deal: if it's Jesus theme week on Discovery, I want to see both sides, 'cause I pay to watch this channel too. For every show on the life and times of Joshua ben Joseph, you gotta run "the god who wasn't there" or "the virus of faith" or something. At the very least we need Mythbusters: The Miracles of Jesus (Walking on water? Busted.) Deal?
http://www.mercurynews.com//ci_8123933?IAD... One of Vick's pit bulls now helping children and seniors in South Bay By Linda Goldston Mercury News Article Launched: 01/30/2008 08:53:24 PM PST He faced a life of fighting, a cruel death by hanging or drowning if he couldn't make it in the pit. Now he brings smiles to children, tears of joy to seniors. Leo, one of 50 pit bulls confiscated from former NFL star Michael Vick's dog fighting kennel, has a new leash on life, thanks to a South Bay rescue group. He also has a new job: He's been transformed into a therapy dog. Instead of risking his life in a dog fight, he will help fight the fear and loneliness of children and seniors in hospitals and convalescent homes. (more at link)
Yeah, I know, what the hell would be in paper towels? For some assbrained reason they make them with whey (thanks to the good folks at Food Fight vegan grocery for finding out and letting the community know.) Anyhow, if you're looking for a critter-free, non-chlorine bleached, recycled paper towel for those really nasty messes that you don't want to use a kitchen towel for, Natural Value confirms that theirs are indeed vegan.
Of course, Seventh Generation is also a donor to Heifer Project (see my journal for why that's problematic) and sells "disposable" diapers, so we already knew they were pretty damned lame. But whey in the paper towels is kinda out of left field.
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