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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
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What’s wrong with eggs?
The evils of the meat industry are pretty obvious from a vegetarian or vegan point of view. The reality of meat being a dead animal is obvious to most people, in general. The ethical problems with dairy products and eggs are often overlooked, because no animals have to die to produce milk, no animals have to die to lay an egg. Right? Wrong.
Through selective breeding and hormone therapy over the years, factory chickens have been separated into two types, “broilers”, which are mass produced for their meat, and “layers”, or laying chickens, produced for their eggs. Laying chickens do not produce the same quantity/quality of flesh that their broiler cousins do, so the two types aren’t interchangeable. Broilers hatch other broilers, and layers hatch other layers. But only female chickens can lay eggs, right? So what happens when a laying hen hatches a male chick? He can’t be used for his meat, as his body hasn’t been genetically modified to produce the “quality” that the meat industry requires of its broiler chickens.
When chicks are born (in incubators, they never get to see their mothers), they are all rounded up to be ‘sexed’. This is a process where someone sits, grabs each chick, and runs a finger along its belly to determine whether it is male or female. The female chicks are kept so that they can become laying hens. The male chicks aren’t so “lucky”. They are oftentimes thrown into large garbage backs, where they crush and suffocate under their own weight. Other times, they are thrown into a large macerator or grinder while still alive, so that their ground up bodies can be used for chicken food, sold to zoos for animal feed, or just be thrown away.
The sisters of these chicks will grow up in battery cages (small cages that hold many chickens, leaving them little room to move around in and causing stressful and unsanitary conditions that often lead to violence among the animals, infections, suffocations, and slow deaths), never seeing the light of day, and will go through a painful procedure called ‘debeaking’, where their beaks are sliced off with a hot blade. It is not similar to clipping a fingernail, as some farmers say. There must be damage to the ’quick’, or tissue and blood vessels, to discourage the beak from growing back. No anesthetic is used. The process is quick and assembly-line like, so many of the chickens end up with less than perfect debeakings, causing blisters or painful regrowths. Many chickens will starve to death after being debeaked, because they are in too much pain to eat. The whole reason for this painful mutilation? The cramped, filthy conditions they are held in cause so much stress that they turn on and attack each other.
After two years of these torturous conditions, the chickens that could normally live six to ten years, are sent to slaughter, because they cannot lay enough eggs to be profitable for their famers.
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Friday, February 20th, 2004
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alright. i am thinking of making THIS journal friends only now, which totally sucks, because i don't want to. i don't care who reads it, but there is one person in particular who gives me a VERY stalker-ish vibe, and is one of the reasons i've changed journals so much over the years, and they've added this journal to their friends list. i have no idea how they even found this journal, but i do remember conversing with them while i was using hushyourhead and giving the impression that i'd rather them not be reading about my life or commenting on it as if we were friends, because i don't know them. it creeps me out when people pretend to know you and they are total strangers or make comments as if they have been a part of your life. this is someone i knew online from when i was still in junior high, or maybe a freshmen in high school, i believe, and they keep following me online. i don't mind total strangers reading my journal as long as they don't act fucking creepy.
so, here is the deal. this is going to be friends only from now on, but i will add ANYONE. even if you think i totally hate you, or you totally hate me, or you are embarrassed to let me know that you read my journal, or don't know me, or whatever, i will add you. just reply here letting me know that you'd like to be added and i'll do it!
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Thursday, February 19th, 2004
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Monday, February 16th, 2004
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poisoned tears fall from a corroding sky down to a tortured earth that's been left to die. The oceans diseased, the stricken lands decay. Mankind's supremist mentality has set this world ablaze. Nature's plan forever altered, animals lost to extinction. This society based on greed fuels the onslaught of destruction. The circle of death ends with the instigators victimized. The means to quench a selfish lust brings eden's demise. Mass-murder, demonic cruelty. Absolute fascism. To end the enslavement and slaughter, the antidote is veganism. Don't let your outrage for injustice end where your selfishness begins. I have conquered through selfcontrol, together we can win. Respect for nature and innocent life, the end of human over human oppression. A peaceful world can evolve after animal liberation. To persist with what is immoral is illogical. There's no excuse for violence against nature or for the innocent to be killed. I see so much sickness. The enemy surrounds. I see so much sickness. I fear what the future holds. I have hope that the point of no return has not yet been passed. These are the final moments. Sand pours from a broken hourglass.
today was a good day!
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Saturday, February 14th, 2004
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i am so excited for today. it had better be perfect!
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Friday, February 13th, 2004
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i am going to work and i look like CRAP!
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Thursday, February 12th, 2004
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i need a pink shirt for work today.
i don't have one.
this sucks.
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Sunday, February 8th, 2004
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i always get youth of today stuck in my head. and like, not even so much their songs, just their vocalist's voice. because its so...i dont know. you know what i mean. i'll be making dinner or doing something and all of a sudden whatever i'm thinking i think, what if this was a YOT song? and it cracks me up. picture that voice yelling about your breakfast. its hilarious.
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Friday, February 6th, 2004
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sometimes when things are going totally shitty in my life, i think its sort of God punishing me for shitty things i've done to other people in the past. and you know what? if i had to choose between the hard times and going back and doing things differently, i'd choose the hard times every chance i got. when i think of how strong i will be five years from now, when i think of how well i'll know myself, know what i want in life, and know exactly how to get it...gosh. that's such a good feeling. i look at where i am today and i'm so proud. looking into the future i know i'll be pretty much invinceable.
sweet! i love marky mark. sooo cute. GO CALVIN KLEIN! if you don't like this song, you don't know how to have fun.
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haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa my life is a cartoon. seriously.
so, anyway. i ordered some 7 pound (yes, 7 pounds, i am weak) free weights last nite. i am starting to plan out my workout routine after i am done with the personal training, because i can't go back to gold's. too many jock assholes that i went to high school with, and too many guys checking out my ass while i'm working out. i can deal with that when i'm with wendy, because when we are doing our thing, its just me and her. but i have a thing with crowds and public places, and although i am much better now than i used to be, i can't be doing that shit with guys looking at me like i'm a piece of meat every time i get up from lifting. i can feel ten thousand eyes on my ass at any given time while i'm in there, and it makes me sick. i'll still go to do cardio, i guess, and perhaps some classes eventually, but i can't keep paying wendy just to be my workout buddy, and i'm not down with the all eyes on me shit. i'm still feeling good about getting in shape, though. its fun to plan out what i'll do at home.
i am going in to work late today because the mall is dead, because nebraska is some kind of arctic tundra or north pole or something crazy with no sun or warmth. sweeeet. i have cramps so bad i want to kill myself. i didn't sleep a WINK last nite. i almost vomited they were so bad.
i'm pissed off right now, but i have a feeling it will be a happy day.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2004
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"when everything is upside down, rest if you must - but don't quit."
"accept suffering as a way of uncovering true values. you may not feel it, but you're growing."
"forgive someone you're angry at. you'll feel light as a feather."
"replace your fears with faith. and then let go."
there are two hands that hold my future. one belongs to the divine, the other belongs to me. no one else can control that. that is such a freeing feeling. its like jumping off of a cliff with your eyes closed. either you'll fly, or you'll fall, but no matter how hard you crash, you'll always be able to mend the pieces together. together.
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
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i know everything about everyone, either because i am just really intuitive, or because NO ONE i know can keep a secret that someone else has told them. honestly. i know pieces of people's private lives that it would probably really piss them off if they KNEW i knew. if that makes sense.
its not even hard to sit on the information, because for the most part, i don't care. and if i DO care, well, its still really not my place to get into other people's lives. just because i know about it doesn't make it 'my business'. and often i will decline when someone says 'so and so doesnt want anyone to know, but they told me, do you want to know?' if people want things secret, well...please just keep them secret. i do realize that as opposed to not wanting ANYONE to know, some people may just not want ME to know. and i totally understand and respect that.
its just a little wierd, knowing so much about everyone's private lives, thoughts, gossip, when they know virutally nothing about what is really going on with me. its almost unfair. hah.
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| Time: | 12:15 pm. |
| Music: | turning point. |
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www.vegangoods.com
is now my favorite place in the world to e-browse.
if anyone ever doesn't know what to get me for my birthday....yep. anything from there.
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Monday, February 2nd, 2004
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people take advantage of living in omaha, nebraska, where some things that you can do or say here fall on deaf ears or are laughed at, you would get fucking stabbed for in other cities.
so passive agressive we are.
'YOU GONNA GET RAPED'
omgz so funnyyyyyy...wait, no.
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7a7p is definitley on the list of 'metalcore bands that don't suck'
i wish i wasn't too lazy to go out to my car and get the cd!
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Saturday, January 31st, 2004
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Friday, January 30th, 2004
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Be patient and wait for the Lord to act;
don't be worried about those who prosper
or those who succeed in their evil plans.
Don't give in to worry or anger; it only leads to trouble.
Those who trust in the Lord will possess the land,
but the wicked will be driven out.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2004
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i was in such a bad mood today when i went to the gym...i thought lifting would make me feel better but i just ended up being really rude to my trainer for the majority of the session, although i was trying HARD HARD HARD not to be, it still came out. especially when we had to do lunges. that is so barbie workout. i'll stick to the machines, thank you very much. i fucking hate free weights or anything to do with balancing or aerobics. it hurts my back too badly or makes me feel as if i should be wearing a thong leotard, plus i feel safer when i'm 'in' a machine, as opposed to out in the open doing lunges where people can see me.
tomorrow is all arms. i hope i am in a better mood for that because its going to KILL ME and my wimpy twig arms. whewwwwwwwww.
my ass will hurt tomorrow.
i feel better now, though. mm. if i could have ran another mile i would have, because i still have some steam to blow off. i will work on the zine.
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| Time: | 12:23 pm. |
| Music: | bane - reasons not rules. |
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that was one of the most pathetic things i've read in awhile.
also, this, i can't believe. its hilarious:
taken from a post in veganpeople:
i went up to her and asked her why she had a fur coat and she said "because i love animals deary" and i told her that having animals anally electricuted to death and skinned was a funny way of showing her "love for animals" and she called me a "fucking fashion hater" and then went on to say "she has always loved animals and saves them from the streets and feeds stray cats and that this fur coat reminded her of all the animals she had saved".
okay, how come that never happens to ME? because i would love to get in a knife fight at a grocery store with some old cunt who is wearing a cloak of tortured dead animal skin and uses THAT lame fucking excuse to justify it.
omgz u fashion hater!!!!!!!
people are so fucking ignorant and cruel, i sometimes can't believe they are actually human. seriously, shit like this is really starting to piss me off. we are supposed to be SMARTER than animals, and people actually say shit like that? or wear things like that? what do they think, someone put up a curtain for a mink to change behind and it slipped off its soft fur and handed it over to someone?
NO, SORRY. ITS A BIT MORE LIKE THIS:
( if you cannot handle graphic photos or would like to 'look the other way', don't click on this. it is not nice. )
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