At Sixes and Sevens

Gone.

[veeranger]

the whole “i used to be a teen who hated authority only to grow up to become the authority that hates teens” is a bad bad thing that practically every other generation has fallen into and we all need to make an extremely conscious effort not to repeat the fucking pattern

[chrystelle-deactivated20181001]

its weird that mostly all vegetarians and vegans only wanna fight for animals but not the underpaid/overworked people that pick their $15 organic grapes from Whole Foods in the sweltering sun for 15 hours at a time 

[katelouisepowell]

here, hang on just a sec, let me give you some receipts here, because ya, of course a lot of fruits, veg and grains cause a lot of human suffering before they get to our kitchens, but hang on a sec

Factory farms are the sweatshops of the food industry. People of colour, undocumented workers, immigrants and poor people are the ones most harmed by animal agriculture. The most vulnerable people in society are used as workers and they are treated horrifically. 

38% of US slaughterhouse workers do not speak any English, and 48% do not have legal authorisation to work, they are at-will employees and extremely vulnerable to being taking advantage of/being subjected to awful working conditions and gruelling hours.

Pregnant women have been forced to stand for long hours in factory production lines without breaks, or perform heavy lifting under threat of being fired, women with heavy periods have been refused toilet breaks so that they bled on their clothes on the production lines.

Human Rights Watch describe slaughterhouse work as a ‘systematic human rights violation’. Workers are twice as likely to be injured at work than the average person, and the rate of illnesses alone was more than ten times the national average, most will suffer from respiratory disease at some point, workers suffer horrendous repetitive strain injury, hearing damage at a rate of 30 times the national average, and there are approximately 37 deaths per 100,000 employed.

Because the production line is so fast and intense, workers are denied breaks and it is therefore not uncommon for them to urinate and defecate in their own clothes to prevent the line slowing, they work in conditions that leaves them covered in animal excrement and maggots daily, and are so dispensable that they are often immediately fired if they complain.

People working in slaughterhouses are more likely to have problems with alcohol abuse and mental health issues such as PTSD due to working under extremely stressful conditions. 

In the UK, ‘farmers are twice as likely to contemplate suicide compared to the general public’ and in the US it is said to be as high as four times as likely.

People working in slaughterhouses are at a far higher chance of being perpetrators of domestic violence due to trauma, desensitisation and the normalisation of violence.

Workers are often unable to unionise to fight for better conditions to a point where controversial tactics are used to stop unions forming. For example at Smithfield foods in North Carolina, under Carolina law they were able to create an internal security force with police like powers - they could arrest union supporters and patrol the factory with guns to keep workers in line.  

People working in tanneries to make leather from the skin of animals that have been killed are exposed to numerous dangerous chemicals that cause skin diseases, respiratory illnesses, and the machinery is so dangerous it can result in amputations.

In India (and Bangladesh) people have died due to the exposure to these chemicals. These chemicals can also leach into the water supply and affect the air and soil quality, which in turn causes illnesses and diseases in nearby populations. There is an aspect of environmental racism where low-income minority communities are burdened with greater levels of pollution.

Aaaaand whilst we’re on the topic of the human victims of animal agribusiness, countless people go hungry in countries growing grain to become animal feed, you could feed hundreds of people with what it takes to raise 200kg of boneless beef, 85% of soy crop is used to raise animals for food despite all the starving humans, 800 million people could be fed with the food the US alone force feeds livestock, would you like me to go on?

nahh you wanna talk grapes! but wait, wait, hang on a sec, is it ONLY vegetarians and vegans that eat fruit and veg? do you meat eaters…. ONLY eat MEAT? are you exempt from contributing to human suffering because you ALSO contribute to animal suffering? do meat eaters not eat grapes?! jesus kerrrrist 

[sunfl0wer-mama]

Fucking preach

[judeesill]

Bruce Jenner is literally a millionaire republican man in his sixties who got off scot free for killing someone while driving recklessly simply because of his wealth and fame + he supported Reagan during the aids crisis and completely fetishizes womanhood sorry I don’t readily accept him as a woman just because he got a boob job lmao

[quantumenigma]

@white-sapphics this is disgusting. White lesbians do not need a space for ourselves away from lesbians of color. Our voices are often the loudest in this community already. You're just a white supremacist

[omnivore-odyssey]

When some dude complains that feminists should shut up because women somewhere else have it worse:

[syntheticperson]

the signs as OJST panels

aries: 

taurus:

gemini:

cancer:

leo:

virgo:

libra:

scorpio:

sagittarius:

capricorn:

aquarius:

pisces:

we didn’t ask if we should, only if we could

[tr1angl3]

i had to fucking look at this so now you do too

[beachh0use-deactivated20200715]

the most cursed of all posts

[rootfauna-deactivated20180326]

I hate all of you

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the popular insults trans women direct toward females include ugly, cunt and bitch……….

[coopraid]

ppl on this site after knowing each other for like 2 days: wow… found my soulmate… we’re made for each other them 4 days later after kin drama: fuck this bitch *reblogs posts from abusedsuggestion and tags them as vague in reference to their ex*

[mulhollandrivedyke]

reblog, don’t repost!

TERFS don’t interact!

[spencer-shayy-archive]

eat my shit, homophobe

[angrysapphist-deactivated201804]

what she said

[cyberpunknoire]

You ever think about how suburbs isolate people from each other and prevent social unrest because I do and it’s no coincidence so much of America is suburbs

[fiercen-deactivated20181010]

🌈🌺💕 happy lesbian visibility day!!! 💕🌺🌈

[relatablehetaceposts]

the word queer, outside of being a slur, is honestly just so … hard for me to look at anymore because i don’t think i can ever /not/ associate it with liberal buzzfeed loving creeps who will tear your throat out if you dare to speak of the word negatively

[azspot]

Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist, and he now stars as a loveable cartoon TV detective. Roman Polanski raped a 13-year-old and has since won an Oscar to a standing ovation. Sean Connery is the celebrated embodiment of rugged cool, who has openly championed beating women in order to keep ’em in line. Bill Murray has been accused by his ex-wife of repeated, brutal physical abuse. Rick James was arrested for torturing and sexually abusing a woman for three days straight, only to have his image rehabilitated by Dave Chappelle years later. John Lennon is one of the most worshipped artists who has ever drawn breath, and he has copped to battering the shit out of women.

It’s Not Just Cosby: Hollywood’s Long List of Male Scumbags (via azspot)

[millenniallust4death]

The culture around agility is all about throwing puppies right into the thick of things. Ten weeks old? Ignored ringside. 14 weeks? In a crate right in the middle of a busy trial. 16 weeks? Expected to walk like an adult through a busy area; blamed for jumping on people or other dogs.  I have seen puppies physically corrected for barking ringside. I’ve seen a person beat the top of a puppy’s crate because she was vocalizing inside of it. I have seen puppies ripped off their feet when they attempted to practice normal greeting behavior. Again, because dogs are incredible, most of them will not go on to develop career-altering behavior problems. But some of them will, and we can do better, so why don’t we? — A lot of these mistakes come down to people ignoring the concept of emotional or mental maturity.

Sarah Stremming, “Puppies and Emotional Maturity”. The Cognitive Canine (29 March 2017).

This is an interesting thought too.

When we teach a puppy to be quiet in his crate by reinforcing silence we may be successful in creating a quiet puppy; but we may also produce a keen and sharp emotional state, the kind we’d like to see during training but not during crated downtime.

(via shotinthekidney)

[quantumenigma]

I’m always nauseous nauseous nauseous

[hypestripe]

you can call me root.

[gorgonology]

Observing bi women who tend to prioritize males treat intimacy between two women like a fetish suggests something about the way bi women learn about their attraction to other women. Lots of us learn from porn, and that’s bad. We learn it’s cool to fuck women, but you should date men. You should have romance and real intimacy with men. And in my experience this comes across in the way bi women interact with each other/other women in a sexual setting. This is not to say I view bi women as un-datable or gross or whatever. Just that the narrative on bisexuality with women needs to change. Like I’ve said before, bi women need to be encouraged to love each other, to value intimate, genuine relationships with other women, to see women as viable life partners and girlfriends, rather than simply as vehicles for “sexual enlightenment”. And we need to stop telling bi women it’s okay to date men. We already know that.