221cbakerstreet:

quigonejinn:

bowiecadmium:

ipsadixit:

guineverethecat:

Some ladies are far more articulate than I can be…

since “You go, girl” doesn’t seem appropriate, “You go, Justice Bader Ginsburg”!!!

Bitches get shit done

True Story: Ginsburg and her husband attended law school together.  After their first kid was born, her husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and Ginsburg attended class for both of them and took notes.  With a sick husband and a newborn baby, she still made law review.  

True fact: Ginsburg’s opinion in the VMI case is 50 tons of smoking-hot judicial “fuck you, if the standard is equality of opportunity, VMI, you can’t put three adjunct professors in a classroom next to a jungle gym, tell them to teach the ladeez, and then claim that you’re offering female students the same opportunity that you offer male students”.  

True fact: Ginsburg’s beef with Roe v. Wade is that it was insufficiently clear that the decision of whether or not to give birth to a kid is all about the goddamn person who has to give birth.   

True fact: Ginsburg is saucy as fuck, calling Scalia straight-out on his bullshit on the health care law by quoting his very own words back to him. 

True fact:  Ginsburg is a tough old bird who didn’t miss a day on the bench while she was getting chemo for colon cancer, but she is only human, and what Romney will appoint to replace her if he wins the presidency does. not. bear. thinking about. 

hero

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buddhasfeast:

Mixed my protein powder with some peanut butter, added some cacao nibs and thinned it out with some almond milk. Tastes like cookie dough. Nom. 

file this one under Very Good Ideas.

veganfeast:

Packed dinner for train ride to London. Cashew quinoa mushroom salad + extras. #vegan by monica.shaw on Flickr.

yes!

luciferxvx:

lunaxvx:

tablemonkey:

lunaxvx:

tablemonkey:

lunaxvx:

Cruelty in the Honey Industry

Common practices in the honey industry are:

• To prevent the queen bee from leaving the hive, honey producers sometimes cut off her wings.

• Often, queen bees are artificially inseminated.

• Large commercial operations sometimes take all the honey instead of leaving enough for the bees to get through the winter. The honey is than replaced with a cheap sugar substitute.

• Most beekeepers remove all the spring-season honey.

• In colder areas, some bee keepers will burn the beehives, killing all the bees inside, before the winter starts to reduce cost.

• Bees are often killed or harmed by haphazard handling.

Bees are hardworking animals who deserve to keep the labor of their work. Stealing products from them is a form of exploitation, which should and can be easily avoided

How does one artificially inseminate a bee? Like they’re so small…

First, the head and thorax of the drone are crushed

This causes the abdominal muscles to contract and turn part of the drone inside out (partial eversion of the endophallus). 

The rest of the body is then crushed to turn the endophallus fully inside out. The semen from many drones is collected and combined. 

A shows semen collection from a drone. B shows the insemination of a queen who is in the holding tube of an instrument and anesthetized with carbon dioxide. C is a wider view of B. 

Hooks are used. 

The semen is injected. (A newer syringe is slightly thinner.)

Wouldn’t it be significantly less work to just let the male bees do it by themselves? I’m not entirely sure how the queen picks her mates, if she does, or if the males just form a line or something.
Tumblr, don’t eat honey. Don’t buy things with honey or beeswax. Thank you for sharing this information!

Mmm I don’t think so, it’d probably take more time and to them that would mean less money, which is all they care about. But even if they did let them do it by themselves, it is wrong to take something that does not belong to us, it means exploiting their bodies and resources and that’s oppression.

There are many wonderful alternatives out there, such as agave nectar, rice syrup, barley malt, maple syrup, molasses, sorghum or fruit concentrates, and there’s even this baby too (you can also find it here)

Sure, here to help :)

to everyone that thinks it’s “ok” to eat honey and still consider yourself vegan

IT IS NOT.

Hey everyone! I knew honey was not vegan and I knew a few different reasons why it’s not ethical, but I didn’t know any of this!

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live-laugh-eat-gym:

freshandskinny:

fitism:

Salad “Pizza”

Click the photo for recipe

yumm

mmmmmmmm!!!!!!

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mushrooomz:

Fuck the circus!

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thisgentlemanbastard:

myasphyxiatedmind:

licoriceplease:

• Getting rid of food deserts and making veganism more affordable for poor people
• Advocating for better working conditions for migrant workers and making their fruits and vegetables “cruelty free”
• Protesting and…

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