The Almanac

Expanding the Conversation Around the Meat We Eat

There are things we’ve been doing for almost all of human history almost everywhere that we don’t want to do now…we kept other humans as slaves and we treated women as second class citizens, and we don’t do it anymore. We overcame it, and when we look back at those things that we did, we look back with shame… and I think the farming system we have now… the dominant kind of farming system, the kind that produces 99% of the animals we eat, is something that we are going to look back on with shame.

The Bird Book

Wow, truly stunning. The vids are pretty fantastic.

I have no idea what this video is saying (because I’m posting it at 4:20AM shhh) but it’s fun to watch and makes me wish I was riding fixed, on a tennis court, in the sun, wearing shorts. That would rule. (via iaminlikewithmybike)

Classic.

Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
Prospective client: Yes.
Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.

Late Returns - How Mike McGinn Broke the Seattle Machine—and Why the City Will Never Be the Same

“I understand my Republican friends from high school who want to hunker down in their suburban homes in Texas and Florida, make their kids comfortable and safe, cook really good dinners, and ignore the fate of the world—but they don’t act like they are any better than they are.”

“We have been trained by a history of thinking of which we are scarcely aware to view non-human animals as resources we are entitled to employ in whatever ways we see fit in order to satisfy our needs and desires.”

— Animal, Vegetable, Miserable