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[softer]

I have been doing a lot of landscapes as of late. By a lot I mean that the last two rolls (24 exp total) have been of earth, sky, sunlight, withered plants, broken highway, dilapidated buildings, etc. I suppose that there are a couple of reasons for this, the first of which is that I feel too much like I am photographing the same thing over

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[synergized]

This is an obvious answer (about the meat-packing stuff), but have you read Fast Food Nation? There's a lot in certain sections of the book about that subject in particular, and it's really interesting. It has a lot of really good examples of how migrant workers have been tricked into coming here, about the working conditions in general and for migrant and poor workers specifically. Also, there's been a lot of problems with Tyson, the biggest provider of chicken in the country, and them bringing migrant workers into the country to work in their factories, forging documents, stuff like that. I'm sure you could find out a lot about that by looking online

[softer]

I have been skimming through fast food nation but have not sat down and given it a solid read; I will look into the chapters that seem to focus on these issues, thanks for the tip.

As for vegetarianism/organic products--I think the deal with buying organic (I usually can't afford to do this either) is that most organic farms operate under fair trade agreements, so while the marginalized lower classes and students ha cannot necessarily afford organic produce etc, the money that is cycled through at least is redistributed to the farmers. It's really complicated and almost makes me wish that the research paper was required to be longer than six pages.

As for the photo project: thank you for the encouragement. I am incredibly anxious to get started on it but am also incredibly fearful that it will fall flat. If I don't end up sharing it publicly, would you like me to email you some of the images? Would you be open to giving feedback if I were to share them in progress? It would be totally appreciated. Hope you are well, aussi.

[synergized]

I'd love it if you e-mailed me some of your images, and I'd be glad to give you feedback. Good luck with all of your goings-on.

-leslie

[wandruska]

sounds like you're quite focused but so much to do... good luck :)

[softer]

I don't know about focused but I definitely have ideas, hopefully they will pan out, and thank you! I was sorry to hear that you were (are?) feeling that your journaling is worthless; maybe you should take a break, create another journal somewhere online or a paper journal, journal through letters or emails. I don't know, sometimes I feel incredibly bored with this place, usually because I just feel like I have nothing to write, so I start just communicating with the people around me, people I love, and eventually I get the overwhelming sensation that my life needs to be documented, documented, documented; or, rather, that I need to document it, that there is an inherent importance in human experience, not just tantilizing human experience but all human experience, even the mudane, droning parts of it. Of course, this is a perpetual cycle. But I hope you start to feel better about the journaling, or, you know, quit. While I would sorely miss the little blips into your thoughts, I would likely also feel comforted by the fact that

[wandruska]

thanks for that :) i do have a paper journal where i write every day, so i had LJ as more of a communication forum than a personal journal, to frustrating results. i'm not quitting it because i like a few people who use it but i think i'm loosing incentive to write. which isn't bad after all because i'm applying this energy in more productive ways, and finding my paper journal a lot more interesting :)

Re: meat Industry

[softer]

i will have to look for those for my rewrite, i think, because there are no libraries around that carry either of them. thank you so much, though!

[ex_month734]

last semester i wrote a paper about the meat packing industry & attempted to show that, in respect to use and treatment of immigrants, little has changed since upton sinclair's the jungle.

i'll look for my bibliography, if you'd like. here are some of the links that were still saved in my favorites.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2001/07/meatpacking.html
http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/slaughterworkers.cfm
http://www.poultry.org/labor_immigrants.htm

[softer]

thank you, sweetie. if you have any additional online sources in your bibliography, those might be helpful, but it's too late now to get a hold of books for this draft, blah.

how are you doing?

[sherrila]

try human & animal slavery.. by.. um. what's that author's name?
oh yes, Marjorie Spiegel.
also, i will get back to you tomorrow (with more suggestions, i am hungry + tired so the thinking isn't so good).

love,
sherrila.

[softer]

I will have to conduct an investigation to find a copy of this book as neither my school nor any school in this state has this book. Thank you though prettyhead.

m,

[softer]

My emails to you are bouncing back. I just wanted to re-ask you for the vegan cheesecake recipe. purrmow.

m,