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[spoon9001]

I have a new icon. :D


School starts around St. Valentine's Day.
Taking Intermediate Photo, Digital Photo, and Beginning Drawing. Why Beginning Drawing? Because I like the teacher. ^^
That's 9 units, 4 mornings a week; Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Working hopefully 30 hours a week.

I'm going to AnimeLA with Mandy and David. I'll be volunteering.

February 3rd I have a concert with Jarred, his friend, and Atari. It's Tiger Army and Imperative Reaction. If we can't get tickets, we'll just go to a club.

Kyle got me on a PETA kick; I'm going to try and switch most of my products (soaps, shampoos, household cleaners) over to those that don't test on animals. What's the point of that? Well, there isn't a goverment mandate that says companies need to test on animals. That said, animal testing in and of itself is inconclusive and to a point, utterly useless for us as humans. Testing liquids on a rabbit's eye tells us nothing in regards to what it'll do to ours, as a rabbit's eye is virtually nothing like ours. Our skin has certain sensitivities that animals' don't, and vice versa. What burns their skin might be fine on ours. With that in mind, even if a product kills, burns, maims, or blinds an animal, they can still market it: They've tested it, and it's ok to market it.
And yes, there are other methods for testing products. Methods that involve human skin cells (or even stem cells), and not living, breathing, animals that are dissimilar to us. They're expensive, but they won't always be, and supporting the companies that use alternative methods will make it more profitable in the end. And there is a list of said companies.

*scratches head* I think that's about it.

Comments

[jheti.livejournal.com]

Didja know: rats are the only animal really, really similar to humans for most lab-test purposes and that's why they're used so much in cancer research?

Which, yes, the redundancy of cosmetic animal testing is "We tested it, it's toxic as fuck, let's give it to the American people and turn over some quick $$."

They'll use it whether it's harmful or not, so what's the difference? That's like saying "I'm going to go shoot a kid to see if bullets kill people...Oh, surprise! They sure do. And we needed millions of dollars in R&D money to tell us that."

*facepalm.*

[jheti.livejournal.com]

And icon! ^_^ I like.

[rivetspoon.livejournal.com]

Thankies ^^
I like your Chibi one, too ^^

[rivetspoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are a lot of experiments they've done that aren't really "torturous," like the example used in my psych class...

Student: Wait, so they're killing rats with Heroine overdosing? That's cruelty to animals or some junk :'(
Teacher: Not really, the rat kinda dies happy. :D

It was amusing ^^
But yeah, that type of stuff does prove useful ultimately. Burning a poodle's flesh off to test a dye? Yeah, no.

[drkbish.livejournal.com]

I'd be more supportive of the PETA thing if it wasn't for the fact that they fund eco-terrorist organizations, they've been known to commit mass euthanasia on rescued animals, their VP makes no secret of the fact that she takes insulin (made from animal products), and that some of their stunts specifically target children ("Your mommy kills animals" campaign slogan, telling children that their mother is a murderer if wearing fur, signs that say "Santa Claus isn't coming this year", etc.). Not to mention some of their other stunts, like throwing fake blood onto passerbys wearing fur...

If you're serious about helping animals, then more power to you. I just really dislike this group of hypocritical windbags whose morality is somewhat questionable.

[rivetspoon.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I've hated PETA for years, too. But I can't argue with the fact that they have a list of animal-free companies to refer to XD

[marc-penn.livejournal.com]

Good job rivet! Buying things that are not tested on animals is a good thing, and if more people did it, it'd get the companies to not bother testing it on domesticated animals. We should consider testing these products on prisoners, like rapists and child molestors. :-D

[rivetspoon.livejournal.com]

Aah, but then begs the arguement, "Who are you to judge? :'( Everyone deserves a second chance!"

I think that's my favorite arguement against the death penalty: "Everyone deserves a second chance!"
I'd like it to be Your kid they blow their second chance on, pal. (Not yours, Marc XD)

[marc-penn.livejournal.com]

Exactly, people don't seem to think about the victims as much as they do the criminals themselves. If one's a murderer for defending themselves, or even accidental causes, then a second chance should be considered, but there are some people who just can't be saved.

[rika-loves-die.livejournal.com]

At the protests for Tooki, Rev. Jesse Jackson was asked to name any of the victims and he couldn't. Unfortunately, this happens a lot; we glorify the killers and neglect to remember the victims who should really be the focus of such accounts.

[phyr-nyt.livejournal.com]

ooh! i like the icon!

PETA? good! i know you'll bring a good sence of common sence to them. ^_^

[rivetspoon.livejournal.com]

Thanks, babe ^^ <3