For strong womyn everywhere: "Internet Plus Equality"

[Foxi4]

How so?

Also, consider it logically for a moment. By necessity, millions of chicks are born into egg hatcheries each year. At least 40 percent of those chicks are male. (our science hasn't quite yet defeated this little nuisance of there being two sexes) Now, honestly, what do you think they do with all those males? And what about it would constitute an isolated or extreme case?

I mean why do you think they build this?
anonymous.org.il/img4630.jpg

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
"As male birds of the laying strain do not lay eggs and are not suitable for meat production, they are generally killed soon after they hatch. Methods of culling including cervical dislocation, asphyxiation by carbon dioxide, and maceration using a high speed grinder."

For the record, I know you don't care. But "isolated extreme cases" is something so egregiously and irresponsibly incorrect, I could not simply let it slide.

I didn't argue against the obvious fact that male chicks are being separated from female chicks which are more valuable and killed off - what I said was that not all hatcheries use shovels to do it as you maintain they do or try to make it seem.

I also don't know why you'd assume that I "don't care" - I do care, I just accept who I am, an omnivore. I obviously condemn inhumane ways of killing animals and praise humane ones, but I'm unwilling to stop eating meat just because said meat used to chirp or moo. I like meat. My body is designed to digest meat, it is only sensible for me to consume it. I will continue to eat meat as a part of a balanced diet, and no preaching is going to change that.

 

[zeello]

I didn't argue against the obvious fact that male chicks are being separated from female chicks which are more valuable and killed off - what I said was that not all hatcheries use shovels to do it as you maintain they do or try to make it seem.

I never said they use shovels to do it. But I'm honestly perplexed as to what difference it makes whether a shovel is used. As though there'd be a fundamental difference between scooping up baby chicks with a shovel and dumping them into the container, as opposed to dumping them in a barrel and then pouring the contents into the container, or as opposed to throwing them in a garbage bag where they die of suffocation, before THEN being loaded into the container. Or whether the worker was wearing a blue shirt as opposed to a red shirt, or a red shirt as opposed to a yellow shirt. (the latter being an extreme, isolated case)

Especially when you consider the fact that, all the while, females are having their beaks intentionally torn off before being slammed into cages which are then thrown into a truck, and similarly mistreated for the rest of therir lives. Like.. even if you were to care how the male chicks are treated in the brief moment they are alive, what makes you suppose that being shoveled is all that bad? For all we know the worker was being gentle. Hell, maybe I'd like to go on a shovel ride myself someday. wheee

 

[Foxi4]

I never said they use shovels to do it. But I'm honestly perplexed as to what difference it makes whether a shovel is used. As though there'd be a fundamental difference between scooping up baby chicks with a shovel and dumping them into the container, as opposed to dumping them in a barrel and then pouring the contents into the container, or as opposed to throwing them in a garbage bag where they die of suffocation, before THEN being loaded into the container. Or whether the worker was wearing a blue shirt as opposed to a red shirt, or a red shirt as opposed to a yellow shirt. (the latter being an extreme, isolated case)

Especially when all the while, females are having their beaks torn off before being slammed into cages which are then thrown into a truck, and similasry mistreated for the rest of therir lives. Like.. even if you were to care how the chicks are treated in the brief moment they are alive, what makes you suppose that being shoveled is really that bad? For all we know the worker was being gentle. Hell, maybe I'd like to go on a shovel ride myself someday. wheee

Not all farms remove the beaks, that's for starters. Secondly, there is a fundamental difference between falling unconcious due to high carbon dioxide content in the air and dying versus getting cramped into a garbage bag and choking to death slowly. Thirdly, there's a big difference between being thrown around with a shovel and sliding down a slope. I sometimes don't know if you're being daft or trying to sound ironic and failing miserably. You can't assume that all slaughterhouses are inhumane, at the same time not all slaughterhouses are humane, and here we can agree. That's what inspections are for.

We've gone terribly off-topic - unless you have something to contribute to the subject of the thread, that being funny feminism bits, you might as well stop now.

 

[Pleng]

To be fair, there's nothing wrong with eating 20 chicken nuggets... at least not for me. Then again, my metabolism is so rapid that ridiculous amounts of high-calorie food don't faze it one bit.

Enjoy it while it lasts

 

[Gahars]

And so ends our game of "Spot the Vegetarian/Vegan." Thank you all for playing!

Tumblr: Pets Edition

Spoiler: Puppies: 1, Men: 0

Spoiler: Liking pets is literally genocide

 

[FAST6191]

And so ends our game of "Spot the Vegetarian/Vegan." Thank you all for playing!

Tumblr: Pets Edition

Spoiler: Puppies: 1, Men: 0

Spoiler: Liking pets is literally genocide

Nah Gahars -- the puppy is just teaching us how to play it. You are supposed to ask enough times and/or look pathetic that they are denying you a nice treat. Eventually you will wear them down and they will commend you for your persistence.

As for the second one I could say that is wrong but more importantly I realised I describe any mongrel pets I have (so all of them) by their colours.

 

[GameSystem]

In response to the puppy. Very crap quality, but you can still hear it.

 

[Gahars]

White people forced out of home at gunpoint. This isn't a crime; it's a brave stand against gentrification!

You know, I don't get this. If white people move in, it's gentrification and bad. If white people move out, it's white flight and bad. Which is it? Also, when did "white" immediately mean "rich"? I've been missing out on years of free yachts and caviar!

Spoiler: Dear White Family Members

I don't know what's best, number 16 (You realize that they're your ancestors, too, right?) or number 44 (a fair request).

And finally...

tfw "I'm Sexy and I Know It" trivializes you and your struggle

 

[Foxi4]

I still don't get the whole POC thing - white is a colour. Why replace one label with another, why pretend that you just "want everyone to get along" while simultaneously dividing the world into "us" and "the others"? Isn't that exactly the same thing "people of colour" are fighting against, except the other way around? I know the saying goes "fight fire with fire", but I don't think it applies here.

That, and the whole victim routine has gotten terribly old and stale. Ye olde slaves are all long since dead and the youngster "coloured" SJW's face little to no injustice whatsoever. The U.S. has a black president for God's sake, at this point trying to push the idea that "institutionalized racism" exists is the equivalent of wearing a tinfoil hat.

Isn't this the dictionary definition though? "Attractive adjective Not ugly"?

EDIT: To my surprise, it almost literally is.

Oxford knows what's cookin', uh-huh. ;O;

 

[Gahars]

I still don't get the whole POC thing - white is a colour. Why replace one label with another, why pretend that you just "want everyone to get along" while simultaneously dividing the world into "us" and "the others"? Isn't that exactly the same thing "people of colour" are fighting against, except the other way around? I know the saying goes "fight fire with fire", but I don't think it applies here.

I agree exactly. I'll never understand it; it seems like we managed to move past terms like "colored people" only to leap right back. I guess the "of" is supposed to make it better? It may sound softer, but that is all that's really changed about it.

Horseshoe Theory strikes again, I guess.

 

[ProtoKun7]

It's because some people are total morons with almost no practical use and even less capability for rational thought.

 

[Lemmy Koopa]

next person who misuses the term "privilege" can have the privilege to fall on a knife.

 

[Gahars]

Is this sounding a bit... "cultish" to anyone else?

Also... there's this article.

4. Have the kid arrested for stealing your phone

Now, granted, it's not entirely Clara Vondrich's fault that this 13-year-old boy was arrested by police for stealing her phone. But, she did, by her own admission, willingly cause the commotion that led up to police being summoned, and she did—as the photos show—keep the kid pinned to a car until police arrived despite already knowing that he didn't posses her phone.

Vondrich says that she "felt sorry" for the kid, but not enough to not have him arrested and charged with grand larceny. The boy will now enter New York's vaunted juvenile justice system, which will likely fuck up his life even further, simply because he snatched a white lady's iPhone in Williamsburg.

If you are nonviolently mugged by a child, continue to let him run along with his friends. The world will be a better place.

Are you fucking kidding me? Stealing just a phone shouldn't be treated as a crime? It's okay because she's just "a white lady," is that it? A woman gets her things snatched and she should just let it happen, is that it? Sounds like some real "victim blaming" bullshit to me.

Fuck I'm mad.

 

[Veho]

But, she did, by her own admission, willingly cause the commotion that led up to police being summoned,

Did she steal her own phone? No? WELL THEN IT WASN'T HER WHO CAUSED THE COMMOTION

FUCK YES I MAD

 

[Veho]

Take that, Steam! That'll teach you to be... um... entirely unrelated to the issue. Serves you right!

 

[chavosaur]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?threads/What-Really-REALLY-Grinds-my-Gears:-Gaming-Edition.371503/

Man, all these entitled gamers. On MY TEMP?! triggering. Absolutely triggering.

 

[Gaming4Ever]

Aahhh Women u can't Kill em and.....ummm.........Well u can't Kill em

 

[Lemmy Koopa]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?threads/What-Really-REALLY-Grinds-my-Gears:-Gaming-Edition.371503/

Man, all these entitled gamers. On MY TEMP?! triggering. Absolutely triggering.

Maybe you should seek maintenance.

 

[zeello]

the woman was wearing clogs, how did she catch the boy? How is that even possible?

this reminds of some girl who got her phone snatched outside of a restaurant. It was a white boy who took it and he got caught. I forget what happened to him.

I have to wonder if this "wrong crowd" is taking these boys for a ride... is this some kind of gang initiation? that's some scary shit..

 

[Gahars]

the woman was wearing clogs, how did she catch the boy? How is that even possible?

He was pretty fat. Of course, stating this fact was just another in a long line of abuses:

This kid has enough problems—he was booked on charges of grand larceny, his Mom is probably really mad at him, kids at school will definitely make fun of him endlessly for being caught from behind by a white lady wearing zany sunglasses. The last thing he needs is to be called fat in the newspaper. Have a heart, Clara Vondrich.

Love that line, too.