Happy birthday, Trudy!
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:14:58 am PDT #5923 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:17:14 am PDT #5924 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I suspect I lack advanced Buddha nature.
Every now and then, very well-meaning vegan people try to tell me that eating honey oppresses bees. I remove myself from those conversations very quickly.
My apologies to everyone who woke up ugly tired, because I think I stole all the sleep.
-t - Sep 11, 2014 8:32:09 am PDT #5925 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I do have ethical issues with honey, but they are pretty much the same as I do for mass agri-business in general. I take it a little more personally when hives are mistreated because I do particularly like bees. But if you know the source of your honey you can find out what kind of practices they follow (and verify that your honey is really honey and not a smidgen of honey in a lot of corn syrup).
Silkworms just make me think of how it at least used to be common practice for the women harvesting the silk to steam and eat the silkworms as they went. Efficient!
Tom Scola - Sep 11, 2014 8:33:34 am PDT #5926 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!!
Sue - Sep 11, 2014 8:42:44 am PDT #5927 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Happy birthday Trudy!
Hello from Dublin! I am forcing myself to sit in a pub, bt I'm not going to stay for long.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:43:22 am PDT #5928 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I buy my honey from local beekeepers, precisely because I want to make sure I'm getting actual honey, not honey-flavored corn syrup.
-t - Sep 11, 2014 8:52:20 am PDT #5929 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Then you qualify for the -t approved Ethical Honey Consumer stamp! May be applied to your Goth Card.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:58:36 am PDT #5930 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Then you qualify for the -t approved Ethical Honey Consumer stamp! May be applied to your Goth Card.
Yay! dips skull spoon back into jar of honey
juliana - Sep 11, 2014 8:58:43 am PDT #5931 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I buy my honey from local beekeepers, precisely because I want to make sure I'm getting actual honey, not honey-flavored corn syrup.
Same here. Also, because the honey purveyors at the farmer's market are awesomely snarky, and they carry honey straws. Which are fantastic.
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2014 9:03:48 am PDT #5932 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So I got about 10.5 hours of sleep in total.
Oh, I really hate you right now. I'm in the dead zone between sleep prescriptions which my doctor damned well exists but somehow we fail to address the OBVIOUS IMPLICATIONS of intermittently taking an extra half dose.
I've seen some horrible sheep-shearing videos--a lot of cruelty can go into your wool when they just cut and disregard flesh wounds.
I'm allergic to wool so it's a non-issue for me, but I think if I were buying it to work with I might try sourcing ethically.
It boggles me how silk can even come up in same conversation, but I'm pretty pro-mammal anti-bug even though I eat and wear the former with abandon. I mostly have "we need them" feels about bees, not actual empathy for the organism.