This person flounced because the handmade purse I was auctioning off for an animal rescue organization had leather handles.
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May 17, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Please stop murdering the cows!
May 17, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Spare the life of the cow? What?! As if the cow was going to be held at knife-point until the end of the auction and then slaughtered so someone could take two tiny strips of hide for handles, and that her cash donation would stop the whole horrible process!
May 17, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Purse was already made, leather already acquired, cow long dead …so, what – just waste it? NOT auction it for money to help animals? Yeah, that will really take a stand against animal cruelty.
May 17, 2011 at 11:02 pm
So telling her I’m a plus size and have leather pants and a leather skirt would push her over the edge?
May 20, 2011 at 9:01 am
If we all chip in you could get a leather corset and that would be glorious.
May 21, 2011 at 4:17 pm
But you have to be eating a juicy medium rare t-bone steak while wearing the leather pants and corset.
May 17, 2011 at 11:36 pm
But look at her skinny, skinny neck, clearly the woman only lives on sunshine and happiness.
May 19, 2011 at 7:41 pm
And puppy farts. Don’t forget the puppy farts.
September 5, 2011 at 12:36 pm
That’s an animal product.
May 17, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I notice that most of my vegetarian coworkers are happy to wear leather shoes and leather belts. Many of their cars have leather seats, and some of the ladies carry leather purses. I’ve even seen a few in leather jackets. So I’m not buying the whole “no leather, save the animals” BS from the veggie crowd.
Guess what bitches, even Birkenstocks are made of leather.
May 18, 2011 at 1:35 am
I meant to hit thumbs up on this. D;
March 19, 2012 at 1:29 am
I added one, just for you.
May 18, 2011 at 10:28 am
I love to mess with the minds of hypocrites like that. I had a chick in high school bitching me out for wearing a leather coat – I turned to her and said, “At least I ate the burger too. Where do you think your Berks came from? Cows don’t shed.”
May 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm
holy bananaballs! angelbuttons77, i wish i went to high school with you.
May 19, 2011 at 2:51 pm
We must be related! Picture if you will… friend in our apartment, spots black sheepskin rug on the floor, and begins to give me stick
her: “Is that a REAL skin?” “Oh my GAWD, something DIED for that” etc., etc., etc., when I look down and notice her LEATHER Doc Martens…
me: “Excuse me, but are you wearing LEATHER Docs and giving me a hard time about my rugs? I at least EAT the meat”.
her: *Blink… blink… teary blink* “Well, I like to think the cow died of natural causes!!!”
me: “Oh yes… because I’m sure there are a bunch of Germans just sitting around waiting for cows to die of natural causes so they can make YOU a fucking pair of BOOTS”.
Damn humans… yeesh.
May 20, 2011 at 9:02 am
That’s why I wear leather. I only wear animals I’m willing to eat.
May 18, 2011 at 12:17 pm
When I was 15 I went to volunteer at a local animal sanctuary (I wanted to be Gerald Durrel when I grew up) and spent the whole day working really hard mucking out animal pens. The owner of the sanctuary pulled me aside and said I had done a wonderful job, and I obviously had a real affinity with animals (I’d wandered into the lama lot and had been spreading hay for them and had them following me around and snuzzling me, apparently they would usually headbutt and spit on new people)… BUT, I was wearing shoes with leather soles, which meant I supported animal cruelty, and I was fired.
I cried for a week. FUCK people like that.
May 19, 2011 at 5:36 am
I thumbs them down by a billion.
If it was so important to them, they should have checked your shoes at the door and sent you home.
May 19, 2011 at 7:43 pm
You should have taken the llamas with you.
October 1, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I keep misreading your screen name as “Cakethulhu,” which would be epic. You can devour the Devourer! Or maybe does the cake eat YOUUUUU???
Either way, I want one.
May 18, 2011 at 11:57 pm
I grew up a part-time farm kid. I’m not squeamish about where meat comes from. (And I can teach you how to kill and butcher your own chicken for dinner.) I’m going to tell y’all right now that you don’t slaughter a cow for the leather. If you can’t package up that meat and store it or sell it, you don’t kill the cow. The hide is a byproduct. It’s the beef that makes raising cattle worthwhile.
And it’s disrespectful to the life of the animal not to use all of it. So, wear your leather, fertilize your flowers with bone meal and blood meal, and do so in good conscience that you’re not increasing the market for dead cows. Oh, and if anyone was in doubt, it is animal-friendly to wear wool. Sheep actually like to be shorn in the spring. That wool gets awfully warm, and they’ll come running for their haircuts.
May 19, 2011 at 10:47 pm
I live in Portland and I am so SICK of vegans telling me off for wearing wool. My family owns sheep, I spin fleece and knit with the yarn, and I’m pretty sure our sheep didn’t die when they were shorn.
May 22, 2011 at 8:09 am
I am a vegetarian and have some birks. They’re not leather, they’re some synthetic stuff. I do wear leather shoes though – way I figure it, if the cow has been killed for meat, it’s not my fault. No sense in wasting the leather.
I do get so tired of people trying to catch me out. Ooh! You ate cheese! What if there’s rennet in it! You are a hypocrite and a bad person!
Sigh. I do the best I can, am not perfect, and don’t give a flying fuck what others are eating. Would be nice to get the same courtesy instead of smug scrutineers.
May 18, 2011 at 7:15 am
That’s right damn it. All those animal hides should go to waste. The cows are not going to stop dieing, I mean-come on, too many of us like a nice huge steak. But we do not need to use those hides for anything, cause that is just wrong. Throw the things away. poor cows.
(when animals stop eating each other, then I will consider giving up meat also)
May 18, 2011 at 10:29 am
WTF does one have to do with the other, you know? Pet rescue or wild life rescue is a completely different issue than animal rights/PETA.
May 18, 2011 at 10:30 am
Damn, hit enter too soon – meant to add:
PETA wouldn’t even support a pet rescue fund, because they’re against people having pets.
May 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Commies, obviously.
May 19, 2011 at 1:54 pm
I wonder if the people at PETA have ever encountered a feral dog or cat. Just sayin’, they’re a lot better off on the “leash of oppression” where they get walked, fed and groomed than on the streets with mange, worms, and empty stomaches. But yeah, keeping pets is total animal cruelty.
May 19, 2011 at 2:56 pm
I’m sure my furry overlords would scratch some PETA card carrying UTI’s eyes out if they tried to return them to the wild. Two strays, two feral, one with an ass load of buck shot because living wild was so much better *eye roll*.
Humans… strangest damn animal of them all if ya ask me. I know ya didn’t, I’m ah tellin’ ya anyways! And I’m going to stop now, because speaking like that is making my head hurt.
May 19, 2011 at 9:42 pm
PETA’s official position is that feral animals are better off dead. No word of a lie. Ingrid Newkirk is a maniac for euthanasia.
May 21, 2011 at 10:50 am
So feral animals need to be put down and domestic animals can’t be kept as pets because it’s cruel. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of options for the millions of domesticated animals that can’t (or shouldn’t) be released into the wild.
October 1, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Is… is she just a secret psychopath who has found the perfect front from which to indulge her animal-murdering agenda? I am going to have PETA-induced nightmares tonight…
September 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm
PETA thinks both should be euthanized, and they’ll do it for you too:
http://www.wvec.com/home/PETAs-euthanasia-rates-highest-in-Hampton-Roads-125837098.html
(and dump the remains in a dumpster, in some cases: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1540785/Peta-workers-dumped-80-dead-animals-in-skip.html )
May 18, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Seriously?? Good Lord.
May 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm
But cows are so yummy…
May 19, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Must be some sort of “Silence of the Lambs” “Buffalo Bob” reference. I can see it now: A cow is trapped at the bottom of a pit being instructed to rub the lotion on it’s skin with it’s hooves. Later the cow is found floating in a river with two long, purse strap shaped holes cut out of it’s side.
May 19, 2011 at 1:50 pm
She’s aware the cow has already been killed, right? Making a cash donation isn’t going to turn it into Bovine Jesus and raise it from the dead.
May 19, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I would totally build a shrine to Bovine Jesus and worship there. The Udder, The Cud, and The Holy Goat. Amen.
May 19, 2011 at 6:58 pm
OK, I’ve got a dilemma. I’ve got a cat that I got from a shelter where she had lived for two years. What the fuck am I supposed to feed her now? Cat food is full of dead animals!
May 19, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Pssh. Don’t you know anything you ignorant and cruel meat eater? You can train your cat to eat a diet of cabbage and tofu. It’s not like an animal that has evolved to be a carnivore (for fucking millions of years) can’t learn to live off of vegetables. I mean it’s not like your cat would DIE or anything.
Seriously though, there are people who probably fucking think this way.
May 20, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Obligate Carnivore is a term created by fascists animal oppressors to force animals to oppress other animals….
(I no longer know if I’m spelling anything correctly. too long at work.)
July 5, 2011 at 9:48 pm
When one of my best friends was in college, he was eating lunch in the student union when he heard the girl at the table behind him bragging about how it took her months, but she finally managed to veganize her cat, blah de blah blah, yeah, I’d fuck me. My friend, who is a big, burly dude with a barrel chest, a beard, and a ponytail, finished his lunch, picked up his tray, and paused by the girl’s table and said, “You do realize you’re killing him.” He stuck around for the nanosecond it took to see her go all homina-homina. This was over twenty years ago and he hasn’t changed a bit. This is why I love him.
September 21, 2011 at 2:21 pm
The sad thing is there are actually vegetarian cat and dog foods commercially available.
October 1, 2011 at 8:42 am
From what I understand, dogs can handle it better than cats. It’s still not good for them, but at least they’re omnivores to begin with (I think it’s funny that so few people realize canines are omnivores – my dog will actually beg for asparagus. No doubt she’d be more interested in meat if that was offered at the same time, but there you have it). So if you feed a dog all veggie food, they’ll probably just get fat and gassy the same way they do off any other corn-based diet (which, sadly, includes most commercial brands). Do that to a cat, though? Yeah, that’s a death sentence with a side of prolonged discomfort over whatever years of existence the animal manages to eek out under your regime of malnutrition.
May 20, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Actually, she’s wrong with the slang. Wank also means something like stupid (or stupid person, wanker), and without seeing the context, I’m pretty sure this was how it was used. A bit like the myriad meanings of fuck.
Lesson: don’t try to understand slang unless you have a native explain it to you. Esp if you’re only going to spend 30 seconds reading up on it.
May 21, 2011 at 11:05 am
Now I know who to thank when folks have negative reactions to vegetarians / vegans. Thanks, hon.
May 22, 2011 at 12:16 am
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July 10, 2011 at 10:31 pm
don’t know why she’s bitchin…it’s dead already right
July 21, 2011 at 6:25 am
I’m sorry but a hemp jacket would not impress anyone on my Harley. It would be easier to sew on the patches though. Nah, bad idea.
October 30, 2011 at 12:12 am
My dad always says, “If nature had intended us to be vegetarians, it wouldn’t have given us predator’s eyes.”
This reminds me of when PETA got on that one figure skater for having fur on his costume, and he pointed out that his skates are made of leather.
Also, as someone who lives in a place where people who hunt tend to do it for subsistence rather than to put a trophy on their wall… if there is beef in stores, not using leather is wasting part of the cow. Which is way more disrespectful than, you know, using leather because OMG IT’S ANIMAL CRUELTY.