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freegan-life · 2 years
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Just wanted to let my followers know I am Still Alive, just focusing on my mental health. Sorry if I made anyone worry. Here’s some art I made recently ✌🏽
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Hey there, my vet told me it's best to keep kibble and other pet food in its original bag, or to put it in metal or glass containers. Plastic doesn't do well with the food's oils and can develop mold very easily and go rancid faster. Plastic also scratches super easy and bacteria can hide in the scratches, no matter how well you clean it.
Oh wow. Thanks for letting me know, anon.
I’m guessing this is concerning my dumpster diving post about dog kibble
The reason we keep the kibble in those containers is because my neighborhood has a rat/mouse problem, and keeping it out attracts them into the kitchen
I will definitely work with my roommates to see if we can keep the food we buy in the bag and also in the container, and maybe keep a big bag for future dumpster kibble hauls.
Thanks again for the heads up
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freegan-life · 2 years
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(to preface, yes, I understand the original post was in good humor)
Yeah, it’s bad.
Where I live, public transportation is only practical if you live in the metro area/downtown (which is very small in size and population compared to the surrounding suburbs).
For example: there is no transit ride for me to get to work. It doesn’t exist. Not even a bus will get me there.
Another example: to get to my chiropractor in the morning, it will take me exactly 2 extra hours to arrive on time if I take a bus (and like my work, my next Dr appointment also doesn’t have any transit options)
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And yes, I could switch to a chiropractor in the metro that I could possibly take a bus or walk to, but that’s not the point.
Most people (in Alabama at least, but I’m sure also every rural state) live in areas where
there is no public transportation
you absolutely must have a car/motorcycle if you are going to get anywhere, because
There is no safe way to walk to where you need to be, on account that most roads do not have sidewalks
And most residential areas are not within walking distance of anywhere worth walking to (grocery store, pharmacy, malls, whatever)
Because of this, people living in poverty drive cars missing headlights, turn signals, bumpers, windows, etc. (I’ve also seen people driving on one or multiple spare tires), all of which is very dangerous for everyone but especially the people driving these cars
and they run these cars until they break down and end up abandoned because it’s not practical to fix a car on its last leg or pay to have a totaled car with no insurance towed
My point is
Many people absolutely do not have any practical option besides driving cars, in poverty or not,
and the solution to this is more public transportation and expanding on places to live in metro areas instead of the suburbs
pretty much, making other options easy, cheap, and widely available
Not shaming people living in this hellhole with no other good choices
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Leftists, I want y’all to destroy the idea of “laziness” yesterday
Motivation, patience, and energy are limited resources, especially for people with executive dysfunction, mental disabilities, and physical disabilities.
Next time you want to assume you or someone else is being “lazy”, consider the actual reasons behind why there is not enough in them to do the thing.
Left to their own devices, free people are naturally driven to improve their lives and the lives of others,
Right wing arguments’ foundations depends on the assumption that humans are naturally selfish, evil, and “lazy”, and must be controlled by higher powers and punished when they don’t contribute enough (with the insistence that certain groups of people are more deserving of being controlled and punished than others)
Next time you notice you or someone else is struggling to accomplish something, don’t assume “laziness”, instead ask yourself: am I tired? Depleted of patience? In a bad mood? If I keep pushing myself through this, will it really be worth the distress?
Maybe what you need is rest, someone to talk to, mental health support, or to just be safe, with all your needs being met. Maybe we should eliminate “laziness” as an easy explanation and instead consider our needs first.
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freegan-life · 2 years
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yes hello and welcome to my blog!!!!!!!
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Garden for CLIMATE RESISTENCE.
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freegan-life · 2 years
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"By waving off the potency of individual action, the climate movement will simply substitute one blind spot for another. A fixation on system change alone opens the door to a kind of cynical self-absolution that divorces personal commitment from political belief. This is its own kind of false consciousness, one that threatens to create a cheapened climate politics incommensurate with this urgent moment."
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freegan-life · 2 years
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And each of those manufactures are currently working to formulate durable fabric without petroleum products
90% of leather made after 1958, however, is tanned with chromium, a toxic heavy metal that most often goes untreated to directly pollute water ways
Leather tanned in this way is not biodegradable
Leather can be biodegradable if treated using vegetable tanning,
but that process takes 2 months, and the current global demand for leather wouldn’t be able to keep up
Chinese manufacturers have already been caught using dogs for leather, (and being marketed as cow leather) the demand is so high
So don’t complain about a thin plastic lining when I guarantee most of your wardrobe is either petroleum products or conventionally grown cotton
Can we please stop calling it vegan leather? You cannot, by definition, have vegan leather. It’s plastic - if you don’t like that, come up with a different term, but for the love of whatever you consider holy, please stop calling it vegan leather.
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Just gonna leave this here since it’s too difficult to use a search engine, apparently.
Can we please stop calling it vegan leather? You cannot, by definition, have vegan leather. It’s plastic - if you don’t like that, come up with a different term, but for the love of whatever you consider holy, please stop calling it vegan leather.
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Ya allah this is sick
They’re distroying graves to build a museum and an amusement park.
museum of tolerance
Independence amusement park
it’s just —-
graves are sacred, people are in there, ancestors , there is so much. This is so disrespectful to the dead and to their families and to the whole country .
i just -
why
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freegan-life · 2 years
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god-teir vegans suspend their veganism to eat the rich
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freegan-life · 2 years
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More examples:
Buying in food dry/in bulk is much cheaper than most other options. Some foods like beans take a little extra effort to pre-soak, but it’s worth the extra savings.
For people with periods, you can make your own pads out of scrap fabric, there are plenty of tutorials online/youtube
For people with periods (continued) silicone period cups are reusable and last for years
Gardening (no, you do not have to spend top dollar on supplies)
Buying soap in bar form (not just hand soap or body wash but dish soap, shampoo, and conditioner as well)
No, you don’t have to feel guilty about taking showers
Yes, you can reduce your waste without access to recycling
It takes research, creativity, and most importantly, each other, but we absolutely can and must make changes if we are going to see a better world in our lifetime.
Do not be fooled that we can save the world without making changes ourselves, be the example you want to see in this world
Just saw a post about how rich people pat themselves on the back for using green washed products, (and that buying used should be priority)
which is a great observation
But it also ignored the fact that things wear out, deteriorate, or just shouldn’t be bought used. (Underwear, just one example)
Plus, there are lots of things in everyday life that just gets used up too fast to buy used all the time
So, yes, buying used should be your first choice.
But when it comes to stuff like soap, food, and necessary single use items….
Yes
Buying organic, small, biodegradable, etc. should also be priority for those who can afford it*
*not everything low waste is more expensive.
For example
Soap nuts are biodegradable and work great as laundry detergent. They’re not expensive, use 0 plastic, and don’t require extra time or effort beyond using hot water for your laundry.
And that’s just one example I can think of at the top of my head, there are many swaps you can make in your life that are actually less expensive, if you are willing/able to put in the effort
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Just saw a post about how rich people pat themselves on the back for using green washed products, (and that buying used should be priority)
which is a great observation
But it also ignored the fact that things wear out, deteriorate, or just shouldn’t be bought used. (Underwear, just one example)
Plus, there are lots of things in everyday life that just gets used up too fast to buy used all the time
So, yes, buying used should be your first choice.
But when it comes to stuff like soap, food, and necessary single use items….
Yes
Buying organic, small, biodegradable, etc. should also be priority for those who can afford it*
*not everything low waste is more expensive.
For example
Soap nuts are biodegradable and work great as laundry detergent. They’re not expensive, use 0 plastic, and don’t require extra time or effort beyond using hot water for your laundry.
And that’s just one example I can think of at the top of my head, there are many swaps you can make in your life that are actually less expensive, if you are willing/able to put in the effort
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freegan-life · 2 years
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Okay, but seriously, everybody go and follow Aotearoa Liberation League. They’re a Maori intersectional vegan group that advocate for both animal rights and indigenous issues and talk about the connections between indigenity, decolonisation and veganism. They have some great resources and I applaud their work. 
https://www.all.org.nz/
https://www.facebook.com/aotearoaliberationleague
https://www.instagram.com/aotearoaliberation/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmujqnvEG2O_U21zf6PYnTA
Indigenous vegans are constantly ignored and talked over in leftist spaces (by non-indigenous anti vegans especially) and leftists constantly pit indigenous issues and veganism against each other and frame the two as incompatible so to see groups like ALL give me hope and they need all the support they can get. 
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freegan-life · 2 years
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‼️‼️PLEASE HELP ME FIND MY LITTLE BROTHER!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY‼️‼️
He’s a missing native child and at EXTREME RISK! The cops aren’t doing SHIT!
BOOST, DONATE, & SHARE
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freegan-life · 2 years
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you got any tips on winter gardening?
First things first I’ll admit I am not an experienced gardener. I’ve fucked around with plants before but 2020 was my first year to actually get a harvest.
That being said, the first step you should take is research! Look up cold weather crops, which plant hardiness zone you live in, your local frost dates, the temperature required to germinate and harvest these crops (broccoli germinates in the warmth and thrives in the cold, but many crops won’t germinate above 70° F), and write all this shit down. Temperature and timing is key here!
(Winter crops include artichoke, arugula, asparagus, beet, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, cilantro, collards, fennel, garlic, kale, lettuce, mustard, onion, peas, potatoes, spinach, radish, and turnips)
Second, and this applies to all gardening, do not spend top dollar on supplies!
1: Seeds are cheap to produce, are being disposed of en masse around this time of year, and you can probably find cheap or free seeds from your local seed library using this locator or by searching “seed library” + your location (on DuckDuckGo.com , instead of Shmoogle, of course).
2: Compost can be found for free or cheap at municipalities that accept compost from residents (only one town in my area does this, but for one pickup truck full of compost is $30, vs maybe 3 or 4 bags of compost from retailers for the same price)
3: wood chips make great mulch, which will protect your plants from the cold, help retain moisture, and enrich the soil over time. Do Not Buy Woodchips! Arborists consistently produce wood chips as a byproduct of removing trees, and will gladly let you have as much as you want for free, considering the alternative is paying landfills to take them. Call your local arborists and see if they will let you pick them up or better yet, if they deliver!
4: if you want to make raised beds, do not buy new wood! Get that shit for free from the back of any big box store, they always have have piles of wood pallets. OR ask any place that sells wood if you can have their off-cuts OR buy majorly discounted wood in packs OR check fa.cebo.ok/cra.iglist for free wood
5: talk about it! Let everyone from your grandpappy to your friend’s fam know that your gardening. people who have gardened in the past will have have all kinds of supplies they don’t use anymore that could be useful to you. And you don’t know until you talk about it!
That’s all I can think of for now. Happy gardening!
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