From the website:
Each purchase is symbolic and represents a contribution to the entire mission of Heifer International. Donations will be used where needed most to help struggling people.
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2005: the Year of the Penguin
Every year we watch the Charlie Brown special, do the Snoopy dance, wish everybody a Merry Christmukkah, and thank our Secret Santas in the good riddance thread. Which is this one, in case you were wondering. Oh, and 2005? Don't think we've forgotten about you.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2005 9:04:54 am PST #218 of 506
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2005 9:05:57 am PST #219 of 506
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Each purchase is symbolic and represents a contribution to the entire mission of Heifer International.
So not one specific heifer, then?
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2005 9:09:03 am PST #220 of 506
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From the website:
Well, yeah...
Connie Neil - Dec 22, 2005 9:09:51 am PST #221 of 506
brillig
Each purchase is symbolic and represents a contribution to the entire mission of Heifer International.
Well, heck. So buying a bunch of trees for druidic friends wouldn't be as cool as I thought it would be.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2005 9:16:37 am PST #222 of 506
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Well, yeah...
I wasn't being critical; I was just responding to Deb's post which implied otherwise.
deborah grabien - Dec 22, 2005 9:21:11 am PST #223 of 506
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I wasn't being critical; I was just responding to Deb's post which implied otherwise.
No, no. Ours was definitely chickens, and they definitely mentioned eggs. I even remember the photo of the kid holding a really pissed-off looking chicken. Not symbolism: eggs,
Just checked with Nic, and he doesn't remember it being heifer.org; he thinks it was another organisation. We were fostering two kids through Plan International at the time, and I seem to remember them partnering with whoever it was.
Huh. Now I'm curious, but I'm damned if I want to look back through tax records and try to find it.
And the core remains unchanged: I still want a goat.
Katerina Bee - Dec 22, 2005 10:00:50 am PST #224 of 506
Herding cats for fun
Heifer is a great project. Goats are especially beneficial for women and children in, shall we say, countries lacking in a Sensitive New Age Guy ethos. They get a share of protein from the milk. Giving a goat also has public health implications, for a woman who owns a goat might not need to work as a prostitute.
Betsy HP - Dec 22, 2005 10:02:57 am PST #225 of 506
If I only had a brain...
Anbody else going to a bad goat-prostitution place?
Just me, then.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2005 10:03:28 am PST #226 of 506
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there thrubbing involved?
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2005 10:04:12 am PST #227 of 506
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bad Goat Prostitutes Gone Wild ?