#sorry I am the number 1 milk hater

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

if I was santa claus I would not be asking for milk and cookies. I would ask for juice or water or tea or anything else. I mean why would I possibly want milk?? Imagine coming home from your job where you had to fly across the whole fucking planet and deliver presents to bratty kids and they show their gratitude by giving you MILK!?? I would kill myself.

[bad-wolf-circe]

bonus poem

every day i wake

up and i thank god

i am not rupi kaur

-a poet, relieved

[krownest]

get to know me 🌻

tagged by @sunriseverse :)

do you make your bed?

yes...if i'm not in a rush....

what’s your favourite number?

16 because that was my assigned number in primary school which was based on the first letter of your surname

what is your job?

currently working as an environmental tech! erm daily i am acid washing glassware and other lab things. i will be on a boat doing sampling soon though so i am looking forward to it

If you could go back to school would you?

planning to do an msc this fall but i haven't actually set anything in motion yet.....

can you parallel park?

yes bc you have to if you drive in hong kong. drive through parking spots are a fantasy there

a job you had that would surprise people?

went up to arctic and lived on military base for 4 months doing environment stuff and it was very cool esp the polar night

do you think aliens are real?

statistically they probably are maybe? idk i'd have to see the science but right now i'd say no.

can you drive a manual car?

no.....that sounds scary.......

what’s your guilty pleasure?

same as spinecorset i do not generally do guilty pleasures but probably like. eating a big bowl of creamy pasta then watching a film or tv show while pleasantly sleepy in a food coma

tattoos?

no because parents would skin me and also because i love going to onsens too much. i would get a little peregrine falcon somewhere if i could. and also something silly and food-related like a sweet potato or a vitasoy carton

favourite colour?

depends on the situation as i love many colours!! blue or purple but i'm picky about shades (e.g. i have a strong dislike for intl klein blue...reminds me too much of blue screen of death)

favourite type of music?

my spotify likes are a huge mix but i'd say hozier/the crane wives/folk songs/songs w narratives in general/cantopop (70s to 2010s)/melancholy opening/closing themes of cdramas/dramatic fight background music

do you like puzzles?

am a hater because 1. i have no patience, 2. i am bad at it and it requires sitting still and 3. have too many hobbies i would rather be doing

any phobias?

spiders, worms, centipedes (<- pretty standard boring normie ones sorry) but it's to the point where if there's a photograph or realistic drawing in a book i can't open said book

favourite childhood sport?

badminton but not competitive and tbh i really only enjoy it more now as an adult. tbh snowboarding is my eternal favourite even though it's been a few years + snow presence is getting worse

do you talk to yourself?

yes in my head when i am Struggling (uni, during a difficult run)

what movie(s) do you adore?

infernal affairs (2003), princess mononoke (1997), belle and sebastian (2013), hunt for the wilderpeople (2016), kung fu hustle (2004), painted skin (2008)

coffee or tea?

both but not at the same time (don't understand appeal of yinyeung), i LOVE milk tea (hk, thai, malay esp 3-layer tea) and tbh i put a lot of sugar/condensed milk...i also do like coffee (caramel latte w whipped cream and syrup). anyway i love hot sweet drinks in general

first thing you wanted to be growing up?

vet bc i like animals but thankfully i moved past it (i genuinely think becoming a vet is more difficult than becoming a dr. also the mental toll is extreme)

tagging: @eusuchia, @zoronoas @daydreamey @bluebeetletedkord @planet4546b @pepsi-maxwell @yu-tap and anyone else who wants to play!

[bidaubadeadieu]

sorry im a big hater. i cannot deny it: I am trying to spoil fun actually, and I am still not over this. part of me wishes I could get over it but I cannot. T_T

Like this is real life. Let's not delude ourselves. Watch the full gif (linked) to see the giant cesspool (literally, that's the technical term) where all the waste is directed.

The original post is about beef cattle, but for the sake of argument, I'm going to talk about dairy, which it seems like most people consider more ethical. The USDA reported in 2006 that over a third (34.1% in that survey) of all cattle in the US are held on farms with more than 1000 head, and the number of small operations (less than 50 cattle) are shrinking dramatically. By 2016, more than half of all milk production was done in herd sizes greater than 1000. Now, I will note in the spirit of full disclosure that research papers do not find strong correlations between herd size and animal welfare [1, 2], measured using indicators like "absence of prolonged thirst", "absence of disease", and "housing quality." I would argue that these are a somewhat low bar, but in any case, fundamentally these are highly industrialized profit-driven operations, not symbiotic relationship-driven operations, and I just think we should be picturing the correct thing here. These animals are not spending the majority of their waking life frolicking at pasture.

Ask yourself: are you completely comfortable with the pictures posted above? Are you comfortable knowing there are thousands of farms like that one, or worse, that there are far nastier pictures I could have posted and didn't? If not, what are you going to do about it?

aw, I got blocked by bovineblogger. That's unfortunate. I commented on a post where it said that cows live happy healthy lives and was like, well, um, not always!! I was not trying to spoil anyone's fun. I love cows. It is precisely because I love cows that I think we need to be clear-eyed about the beef industry. It's gnarly stuff, all kinds of pretty bad outcomes. But I get that on a blog centered on positivity this kind of reaction was unwanted I guess. Idk, just saddens me 😔