fucking love this song. i'm a loser. i've been listening to it ALL day.

today i spent some time reading, Meat Market, and this quote made my jaw drop:
"The young vet moved the calf's tail aside, took firm hold of its bag and deftly slit it open. The bull jumped at the cut and tried to look around to see what was happening, its eyeballs straining from its head. Quickly Doc popped out a testicle-egg shaped, blue veined, white, big as a man's fist- and began pulling it firmly and decisively down, the muscles standing out on his forearms, the strain showing in his neck. The pulling stretched blood vessels and muscles until they tore free. Tearing rather than cutting them made them less likely to bleed. With the tearing, the bull raised its rump, going swayback, fighting the painful, relentless pull. Its neck curved down, its muzzle went up into the air, its eyeballs rolled up into its head until the whites were showing and then with the worst of the tearing its tongue came out, blue-gray and twisted, and flailed in a long, terrible bellow. When Doc had the white tube of the vas stretched to its full extent he quickly cut it though. With a flip of the wrist he tossed the testicle into the bucket. He pulled the other testicle, the bull writhing again in pain, cut the vas, sprayed the incision with antiseptic, let himself out of the chute, released the choke and slapped the bull on the rump."

that quote is about the 19 million (the average number) beef cattle that are castrated each year.

life is still pretty great, ESPECIALLY when KFC is finally making some changes.
For one thing, KFC Canada has agreed to purchase 100 percent of its chickens—through a phase-in program—from suppliers that use "controlled-atmosphere killing" (CAK), the least cruel method of bird slaughter available. CAK works by replacing birds' oxygen with a mixture of nonpoisonous inert gasses to gently put them "to sleep." It may sound horrible—because killing animals for a fleeting taste sensation always is—but for animals killed for food, it's a 180° turnaround. Gone will be the days of broken bones, abuse by workers (because with CAK, workers never handle live birds), electric shocks, and live throat slitting and scalding.
KFC Canada has also agreed to improve conditions for animals on farms and encourage its suppliers to move away from the cruelest breeding and farming practices, as well as forming an animal welfare advisory council. The company will also allow PETA to review its animal welfare audit forms every six months.
But I haven't even gotten to the best news yet. That vegan fried-chicken meal that I ate with the KFC Canada head honcho in December might not be his last. Per our agreement, KFC Canada will now be adding a vegan chicken item to 461 of its 711 stores. That means that 65 percent of KFCs in Canada will now have a totally cruelty-free option (ask for the item, called the Classic Vegetarian Sandwich, in a wrap and with no mayo to make it vegan). Not too paltry, huh? (Get it?)

i know none of you live in canada, but i think this is proof that it is worth the time to speak up! this needs to happen EVERYWHERE, so please get active!

in other news, being home is incredible. my future is in a constant toss up and it does make me nervous, but with whatever happens everything will work out.

"Yeah, you heard. Apparently, it gets even worse. That's all I know or even want to know for now. We got robbed at the very end of tour in a totally unreal, extremely sketchy series of events that still makes no sense at all, only leads to paranoia, anger and a total loss of faith. Passports, money, all the costs of the tour. Either way, whoever did it, it was a bullet in the head, the end of the line. A sudden and totally fucked up way for it to end, which I know will be fitting when I look back on it. All we could do was play the show, badly, and go our ways with whatever money we could muster. I hitched a ride back to Prague with Tomas. Since I can't do a fucking thing about it, I'm going to hang out with my girl, and friends, stare at some Czech mountains and try not to think about it. Needless to say, all outstanding plans are off. All this shit aside, thanks to everyone that helped out and travelled from all over for the shows on this tour, all the kids and bands we played and stayed with. Minus a few fucked up shows, it was probably the best tour we ever had. Thanks everyone for your good wishes. I'll elaborate when I'm home next week, for now - yes it's true, and yes it's over."

so bummed!

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i booked my flight to germany.
i leave on my bday, september 3rd, and i come back on september 17th.

i'm broke.

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i think these videos are incredible. the sex one, a little scary. the buy one get one free just blows my mind. i'm stoked on these. there's one more video to be released pretty soon.

can you see the video?

in just a few hours, it will be one of the saddest days that most people here celebrate. everybody hears it all the time... i'm focusing on the now, and i can't help but think how pathetic it is that folks still seriously support the slaughter of more than 72 million turkeys for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter out of 270 million that are raised for 'food' in the u.s.
on top of that, 850 million chickens are slaughtered for kfc alone.
i have friends and family that will be consuming turkey in the next 24hrs and i can't stop thinking about how difficult it really is to get folks to go at least one day without eating meat.

this is what i've seen. this is what you pass on highways. this is something we can all put to an end.

This was one of them videos that is hard for me to watch. This makes me hate the world.

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