Daily Archives: December 18, 2014
Peta releases images of ‘dog leather’ gloves made in China – Asia – World – The Independent
Skins were then made into women’s fashion gloves, men’s work gloves and other products which were exported around the world.
A dog slaughterer told Peta’s investigator that the facility skinned between 100 to 200 dogs each day.
A further 300 dogs are kept in a compound, awaiting death.
The charity has warned consumers across the world to avoid buying cheap leather gloves from stores.
“PETA is calling on shoppers worldwide to remember the terror that dogs and other animals endure at slaughter and make the safe, vegan choice in clothing and accessories for the holidays and every day,” said PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk.
via Peta releases images of ‘dog leather’ gloves made in China – Asia – World – The Independent.
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Poetry By Heart | Minority
I was born a foreigner.
I carried on from there
to become a foreigner everywhere
I went, even in the place
planted with my relatives,
six-foot tubers sprouting roots,
their fingers and faces pushing up
new shoots of maize and sugar cane.
All kinds of places and groups
of people who have an admirable
history would, almost certainly,
distance themselves fro me.
I don’t fit,
like a clumsily translated poem;
like food cooked in milk of coconut
where you expected ghee or cream,
the unexpected aftertaste
of cardamom or neem.
If anyone still thinks this is about religion, and…
Applies to all the politicized “religious fundamentalists” in all the movements claiming to be protecting their “religion/power/control.”
If anyone still thinks this is about religion, and not a political struggle with the barest patina of religion as justification for this war, they need only come to Peshawar to attend the funerals of the children, who will be buried before the sun goes down, in the Islamic tradition. They have only to hear what their parents will say, the customary response to the news of a Muslim’s death: to Him we belong and to Him we will return. The children who were killed are of the same religion as the attackers claim to follow. This is not about religion: this is about power, intimidation and revenge.
If anyone still thinks this is about religion, and not a political struggle with the barest patina of religion as justification for this war, they need only come to Peshawar to attend the funerals of the children, who will be buried before the sun goes down, in the Islamic tradition. They have only to hear what their parents will say, the customary response to the news of a Muslim’s death: to Him we belong and to Him we will return. The children who were killed are of the same religion as the attackers claim to follow. This is not about religion: this is about power, intimidation and revenge.
claiming If anyone still thinks this is about religion, and not a political struggle with the barest patina of religion as justification for this war, they need only come to Peshawar to attend the funerals of the children, who will be buried before the sun goes down, in the Islamic tradition. They have only to hear what their parents will say, the customary response to the news of a Muslim’s death: to Him we belong and to Him we will return. The children who were killed are of the same religion as the attackers claim to follow. This is not about religion: this is about power, intimidation and revenge.
Bina Shah, The Guardian on the Taliban massacre of school children in Peshawar, Pakistan. (via politicsalamericana)
(via randycwhite)
Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News 