Animal-Use Industries Rolodex
July 28, 2007
The Final Nail. Fifty states-worth. Get it while it’s red hot. Laboratory animal dealers, fur “farmers,” trappers, slaughterhouses, and animal carcass processors. Federally-inspected joints only. Maybe it’ll help clear up some of the local incredulity every time a bloody lamb or baby goat is found staggering around the old, urban (213). Hat tip: GITNR.
Shop cruelty-free AND cheap
February 8, 2007
Get over to the Big Lots on Vine St. and pick up Tom’s of Maine toothpaste for $2.50 a tube. Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamint, cinnamon-clove, mango-something, they’ve got shelves-full ready to move. This stuff is $4.51 at the CVS down the street, and all they have is about 5–6 tubes of peppermint at a time, or $4.99 if you order online. Manny’s over there at the Big Lots RIGHT NOW loading up on a year’s worth of toothpaste and sent us these blurry camphone pix.
And they have a half-shelf full of Nature’s Gate shampoo for $1.50 a bottle. It doesn’t look like the VeganEssentials bottles (at $6.59), but it’s the same company (Levlad). Yeah, the Herbal one smells weird in the bottle but your hair won’t smell like that, and the Rainwater Henna one smells really good.
The more you save, the more you can give. Or the more you can spend on necessities you can’t really find anywhere except online or the WFM. Vegan in this town is too damn easy.
New year, same “science”
January 6, 2007
Pigs will replace dogs in terminal procedures labs
What private educational institution rakes in more NIH loot than any other medical school in the country? Why, the same one of only two in the country that still puts dogs to death in a taxpayer-funded effort to teach their students how to keep each other alive.
“It’s a shame that an outside group with a philosophical position is resulting in a change in the way that medical education is done,” said Gale Davy, executive director of the Wisconsin Association for Biomedical Research and Education.
Yep, it’s a shame. Darn those emotional, non-scientist do-gooders. The market selection pickins’ among incarcerated men, indigent women, rural black farmers, US servicemen, and mentally-challenged orphans just ain’t what it used to be, is it, Gale?
See that dark spot over the dog’s right eye? The right eye, not the eye on the right side of the head in the picture. Yeah, that one. We paid for that area on the billboard with our very own PCRM 2006 donation!
See that 18–wheeler in the background? If MCW decides to kill juvenile pigs instead of dogs and keep a death-grip on the continuance of terminal procedures labs, we might just fund that diesel demon as the PCRM Multimedia Billboard on Wheels and park it right about here. No static, sad-eyed puppy pictures. Think 80” plasmas mounted on a 48’ flatbed, bloodier, and +/-110 dB. Wee budget be damned.
Meet your neighbors
November 25, 2006
On the Tree of Life.
Best viewed with at least 200% magnification in Acrobat or a double-wide, blueprint-capable printer. And a conscience.
Ain’t life funny?
September 23, 2006
Remember the story about a tall truck that was stuck under a low overpass and the contingent of company reps, transportation officials, LE and by-standers who couldn’t figure out how to get the poor driver unstuck? Enter one kid and the only reasonable solution: let the air out of the tires.
While the UC Extension system’s “livestock experts” are busy torching their research your tax dollars on making tall sheep sick, one guy with a weed problem just solved his dilemma the common sense way. PFW knows 4 mini-Southdowns personally, each one the ovine equivalent of a Ragdoll cat and neither breed at all suitable for a cheese-making endeavor. We hope Steve keeps his promise to Henley, Matilda, Althea, their future family, and you.
