YES! A GOVERMENT THAT REALIZES THAT THE EARTH MATTERS MORE THAN A CURRENT PROFIT OF IT! (x) July 16,

America is absolutely disconnected to meat

I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.

Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.

Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.

Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.

It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.

You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.

You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos

You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.

You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..

Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.

I post this every year but it’s worth it to remind myself to plant flowers, in the garden and in my mind and whenever I get a chance, in the hearts of others.

An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)

"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.

"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.

"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.

"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.

"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.

"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.

"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

will not be posting for a while, just found out new hozier lyrics dropped and i need time to squeal out of excitement.

“ummmmm ur bra strap is showing :/ ”

While there are so many terrible things and stuff to fight for, it's good to stand back and realize that with everyday we're creating a better world.

Have some good news.

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Zelda: *giving her I’m god and I gotta sleep for 100 years talk* Link: K cool but Groose says what’s up.

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how i catch & purify my water!

i collect snow & rain to water my plants & cook with. always be careful about what water u consume & always always always properly decontaminate it before using it in any cooking. if u plan on only watering plants w collected water, u can just collect rain water in a bucket & use it as is. just make sure to store it in a dark place so as to prevent the growth of algae

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collect the water

if its raining i set out a ton of jars to collect – cleaned-out pasta jars, thrifted jars, etc. i prefer to use a bunch of small containers instead of one big container so it makes it easier later on to transfer to a pot for boiling

if its snowing i take a jar out & pack the snow in it by hand, then let that melt while i fill another jar. try to really jam-pack the jar as much as possible with snow since snow does lose a lot of volume when it melts

strain it into a clean pot

sometimes (esp with snow) there will be dirt and debris in the water you collect. this is what scientists call “nasty” so we wanna get those out before we start boiling. handheld strainers are not enough to get all the teeny tiny debris, so i put a coffee filter in my strainer, let the water drip through those, then use the wet coffee filter for my compost bin

boil it

we got the big bits out, but this water is still contaminated with bacteria, so we’re going to boil the water for at least a minute on high. if you are able to track the temperature, it should be at least 212 degrees Fahrenheit. if you live above sea level, a good rule of thumb is to boil it for 3 minutes longer for every 5k ft you live above sea level

contain it!

hooray! u have done a thing for the environment. stick ‘em in some jars. make sure to let the boiled water cool first & run the glass jar under some hot tap water so it doesnt ‘splode when u pour the water in