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I see this all the time. Cafes, restaurants, etc, with large windows, plenty of natural sunlight filling the room and yet all the lights are turned on. I guess no one got the memo on global warming. This particular photo is from a cafe called Sculpting in Time which says it supports “Sustainable Development.” Of course, words like “sustainable development” are often just empty words, as evidenced everyday by our thoughtless waste of resources.
UPDATE: Apparently, Marx kept trying to run away from his new home. Last I heard, he’s run away again. ANGELA, if you hear anything, keep us posted.
Thanks to Angela, who happened upon Hutong Robot by chance, the little dog formerly known as “Diu-Diu” is now named Marx and has an awesome new home, with three other doggie pals, on a farm outside Beijing. Marx a rough first year of life, that brought him a lot of cruelty from human beings, but thanks to his loving rescuers (who literally got him out of police custody), he now has a new family.
Thanks to his foster parents Lenore and Tobias, and some help from the email list of the Beijing Vegan Social Club, this lucky hutong dog just got himself a great new home with his new guardian Patricia.
According to this report, “NASA plans to spend nearly $2 million to blast monkeys with radiation, which can cause brain damage, blindness, cancer, and death.”
This is obviously a big bummer.
This image is from the blog of my friends and mentors-in-compassion at Don’t Eat Friends. F
or a post about the scandal surrounding the presence of not-so-appetizing industrial additives in McDonalds McNuggets, the DEF folks did an image that makes a pun of the Chinese word for McNugget (卖乐鸡 mai-le-ji) and McTears (卖泪鸡 mai-lei-ji).
McDonald’s China says that tertiary butylhydroquinone and dimethylpolysiloxane are “harmless.” (The subtext is that one should trust the PR people for a global corporation that has perfected the science of marketing garbage to children.)
(Were I able to attend a press-conference where such a statement was made, I would request clarification by asking: Okay, so, um, when I print the word “harmless,” should those be considered regular quotation marks or IRONIC quotation marks?)
This lucky goose, tentatively named “dong-dong” (east-east), had been discarded in the trash as a gosling, but was found, cared for and raised to adulthood by this compassionate man, who now takes “dong-dong” for walks everyday in the neighborhood and encourages people to be kind to animals.
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