Do Something. Please do Something.

[mudifier]

Alright.  So here's another fucked up post I wish to write about because life is just too good for me.  It's so good for me that really, I think I'm nothing more but a hypocrite who talks the talk but never walks the walk.  I've become so ingrown to my own life, to my own surroundings, that I never take full attention to the lives of other people

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[sam_the_third]

i have to admit i didn't want the video. after reading all of that and just seeing the title of the video i couldn't do it. i know from past experience how much it would hurt to learn that something else in the world is f***ed up. i'm sorry that it made you so sad

i really hope you're alright

[mudifier]

I think my eyes are swollen. I couldn't watch the whole thing; it was just too much. But, did you read the description of the what the video offered? Everything was completely to detail. The raccoon being fully skinned alive and still moving after...

Oh, this just makes me teary. They can do this to 1000 animals a day in China. Fur trade.

I want to be an animal activist so bad.

[sam_the_third]

i didn't even read the description. i saw the title and the picture it was frozen on the screen and that was enough to get to me.

stupid China ... me too, but honestly unless we're willing to set aside all that we've done the rest of our lives we can only contribute so much to help stop that kind of cruelty.

still i say if you find a way to help let me know, i'm all in. if i find a way to help i'll let you in on it too.

[mudifier]

I think I'll open a club on campus when I come back. Show them some videos, try to fundraise some money so I can donate it to the real organizations.
Better yet, I'll just travel. I feel that nothing gets accomplished unless I talk to a head of some department. It would be beautiful if the federal part of Canada went in on this, but really, I'm more concerned with the States and China, along with all the Eastern sides of the world. They just have so many horrible things going on down there...
Even this video doesn't do the animals justice. Imagine that happening to Midnight or Tickle.

[brinkofacomplex]

I had to stop the video after 30 seconds, but I read what it said. That's awful.
At least animals raised for meat have to be killed sooner - what we want from them is a lot more vital. It doesn't stop the abuse, though, or the crowded, shit-covered and disease-ridden conditions that some fodder animals endure. Chickens are thrown alive into boiling water to make them easier to defeather...
In one of my classes yesterday we watched a short video about a girl, Kitty, who was murdered in the States in the sixties. She was stabbed, beaten, and raped for half an hour in the early hours of the morning, on her own street. She screamed, cried for help, shrieked that she was being stabbed, ran and was caught. 38 people saw or heard it happen. 38 people admitted to it, anyway. Nobody so much as called the police until after the killer left. I didn't let myself cry. I don't know why, now; I shouldn't have felt ashamed