But that is so insane to me, I don’t understand how giving an animal’s suffering greater value because they fulfill selfish needs for us is an ethical defense. Pigs are just as intelligent and loyal and affectionate as dogs. Cows are more intelligent than cats, but that doesn’t mean I think we should eat cats. Is it a…

Why are pets not food? Which is to say, what is the difference between a pet and a non-pet other than our own arbitrary emotional attachment? We have given their lives/feelings value simply because we know them as individuals, and cannot imagine killing and eating them—we judge their worth according to what they mean…

The way I see it, I do not have to eat meat to be healthy. My dog and cat do. They are carnivores, I am not. That’s the difference.

This is definitely a topic of conversation among vegans/vegetarians. I think it’s unethical not to feed a cat animal products, they need those proteins to thrive. If that is an issue for someone they shouldn’t get a cat. One could technically feed a dog a vegetarian menu in a healthy way but it takes a lot of time,…

Agreed — I think it’s super wrong (and I’m happy with the decision) but cows, pigs and chickens are subject to horrifying mistreatment for an even longer period of their lives in factory farms. I’m a vegetarian but hate when people get on the case of the Inuit in Canada for seal hunting based off of misinformation and…

Adopting my first dog was what convinced me (though it took me awhile to actually start doing it). I love him so much, and it breaks my heart to see him sad or scared or in pain, and yet I was regularly eating animals with personalities as distinct and emotions as real as his, animals who were created to live…

Amen. At least we get to enjoy Ritter over on Jessica Jones!

Dangit, another awesome show canceled before its time. Rest In TV Peace, Chloe and June.

I mean, I wash my vulva with soap, but I don’t get it up inside my vag. It’s never given me any trouble to do it that way.

That’s a fair sentence. Jonathan should have kept his hands clean, instead, he had his hand in her pocket, uninvited. Oh, well; you live, you learn.

Yesterday while I was getting my tires rotated, Fox News was on and they commentator was going on and on about how 5% of Americans use 50% of health care dollars and why should some healthy 25 year old pay for that? Well Dick, maybe because one day that health 25 year old will be a 57 year old with cancer who’s…

Get good sleep, eat more fiber and green stuff, move around, jettison assholes in your life and have a hobby. That’s my advice, now someone give me a gabillion dollars for my wisdom.

And their top import from china is rich people who launder their money by jacking up Canadian real estate values.

Happy to provide the info. I only recently learned about this myself and I think it’s a good step towards compassion and understanding, not just for the victim (albeit posthumously) but for their grieving family and friends. 

Why? Is that a thing I didn’t know about?

If you don’t show up you are still charged for the ticket, though (at least, that’s what happened to me when I missed a flight). So airlines just want to make twice the money of one seat, and I can’t summon up a whole lot of sympathy for that.

Riley is actually in all the pictures, he’s just so boring that no one noticed.

“You wear a disguise to look like human guys...”

It’s penicillin.

This is fucking disgusting. Is this asshole for real? Even using his dipshit logic, this guy was hired to drive a drunk woman home. It was his job. It’s not like they were even on a date, which is when I would be similarly disgusted but less surprised to hear yet another person in a position of authority utter such a…