| Put An End to Horse Slaughter | |||
I found this on the internet (I didn't write it) , it's really sad =( Please send it to everyone you know and follow the directions at the end. You won't have bad luck if you don't but will live with the guilt of not helping to save animals that have been such a large part of our history -Tilly How much money would you pay for a pound of meat? I am sure not much but people in Europe and Asia would pay twenty-five dollars for just one pound of meat. This meat is not beef or chicken but it is horse meat. In the year 2000 4,290,250 horses were killed because of over population and for people in Europe and Asia who will pay twenty-five dollars for just one pound because it is considered a delicacy. The entire horse meat industry, regardless of the angle of involvement, is driven by greed and money. (Horse Slaughter & the Issues) Retired race horses, work horses, wild horses, and even pet horses are slaughtered, but most of the horses killed are bought at livestock auctions by middle men working for the slaughter houses. After the horses are bought they usually have to endure a long ride (sometimes two days) crammed in a double-decker cattle truck with over 50 other horses. When the horses arrive at the slaughter house they are forced in to a waiting chute, one at a time the horses are brought into the killing stall and bashed in the head repeatedly with a dead-bolt 4-inch nail gun. The nail gun is supposed to stun the horses, but most of the time it doesnt work and the horses are conscious through the entire killing process. After the horse is bashed in the head it will be hung up by (usually) one hind leg. While the horse is still hanging the throat is slit so all of the blood will drain out of the body. When the body is finished draining the head of the horse is cut off. After that the headless body is propped up on a stand where the rest of the limbs are cut off and the body is skinned. Then the body is hung up in a deep freeze storage locker, sometimes it is kept in there for a week. Finally the meat is separated and shipped off to various countries and is sold in the supermarket. (A Visit to a Slaughter House) The following quotes describe the killing process and the emotional toll on the workers; "You move so fast, you dont have time to wait till a horse bleeds out. You skin him as he bleeds. Sometimes the horses nose is in the blood, blowing bubbles, and he suffocates." "I've taken out my job pressure on the animals, on my wife, and on myself, with heavy drinking with an animal that pisses you off, you dont just kill it. You blow the windpipe, make it drown in its own blood, split its nose. I would cut its eye out, one time I sliced off the end of the horse's nose. The horse went crazy, so I took a handful of salt brine and ground it in to his nose. Now that horse really went nuts" (Gail A. Eisnitz) Although the United States is responsible for many (75,000) of the horses killed every year, it is not the only country that does it. In the year 2000 Canada slaughtered 88,000 horses, Mexico slaughtered 630,000 horses, Australia slaughtered76,000 horses, Germany slaughtered 18,750 horses, France slaughtered 35,000 horses, Japan slaughtered 20,500 horses, Spain slaughtered 30,000 horses, Uruguay slaughtered 34,765 horses, Poland slaughtered 33,000 horses, and Romania slaughtered 50,000 horses. (2000 Global Horse Slaughter Statistics) It is the carelessness of over breeding, and the disgusting habits of Europeans and Asians that kills so many horses in an inhumane way each year. If the horses absolutely have to be killed they should be euphemized which doesnt hurt the horse in any way. California used to have slaughter houses but they were banned by the caring people of that state, if you want to be apart of banning horse slaughter go to http://www.petitiononline.com/AHSPA3/petition.html to sign an online petition. |
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| Green Dog | |||
Green Dog :) Read Each One Carefully and Think About It a Second or Two 1. Few men or women are worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry. 2. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. 3. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. 4. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them. 5. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 6. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may bethe world. 7. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you. 8. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. 9. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. 10. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around. 11. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you. 12. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. REMEMBER: WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON. True friends: How many people actually have 8 true friends? Hardly anyone I know ! But some of us have all right friends and good friends!!! You have been Tagged by the Green Dog! ,-._,-. You will Have Good Luck For Two Years if you send this to 8 people or more You must send it in 5 minutes or your good luck will run out. |
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| Sad Poem | |||
My name is Sarah
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| friends~4~ever | |||
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you." - Winnie the Pooh "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." -Mencius "Friends are God's way of taking care of us." "If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend." -Stone Temple Pilots "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay." - Dave Matthew's Band "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them." "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."- Tim McGraw "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life." - Lee Iacocca "Hold a true friend with both your hands." -Nigerian Proverb "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -Unknown PASS THIS ON TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS, even if it means sending it to the person that sent it to you. And if you receive this email many times from many different people, it only means that you have many FRIENDS And if you get it but once, do not be discouraged for you will know that you have at LEAST ONE GOOD FRIEND now Ta Ta 4 Now! |
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| ~* Maybe *~ | |||
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Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but if it does not, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy. Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let know that you appreciate their friendship. |
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| Growing Up is Optional | |||
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around then a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of kids..." "No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. " I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day, for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose." She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be. When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it! These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE. REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it. Lord I love You and I need You, come into my heart, Today. For without You I can do nothing. |
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| Things You Live For | |||
Read the following and think about them for awhile, they just might make you smile!! I put stars by the ones I really agree with�.cuz I�ve done them�or they�re just plain right :+: These are the things that I live for :+: 1. Falling in love. * 2. Laughing so hard your stomach hurts. *** 3. A hot shower. 4. No lines at the waterpark. ** 5. A special glance. ** 6. Getting mail. 7. Taking a drive on a pretty road. 8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio. * 9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside. 10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer. 11. Finding the sweater you want is on sale for half price. ** 12. Chocolate milkshake. 13. A long distance phone call. 14. A bubble bath. * 15. Giggling. 16. A good conversation. * 17. Going to the beach. 18. Finding a $20 bill in your coat from last winter. * 19. Laughing at yourself. ** 20. Midnight phone calls that last for hours. 21. Running through sprinklers. * 22. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all. *** 23. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful. ** 24. Laughing at an inside joke. * 25. Going to a movie with friends. * 26. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you. *** 27. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep. ** 28. Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner). ** 29. Making new friends or spending time with old ones. * 30. Playing with a puppy. 31. Having someone play with your hair. 32. Having a good dream. * 33. Hot chocolate. 34. Road trips with friends. ** 35. Swinging on swings. 36. Wrapping presents under the Christmas tree while eating cookies and drinking hot cider. ** 37. Song lyrics printed inside your new CD so you can sing along without feeling stupid. * 38. Going to a really good concert. 39. Making eye contact with a cute stranger. ** 40. Winning a competitive game. 41. Making chocolate chip cookies. 42. Having a good hair day (lol). * 43. Spending time with close friends. ** 44. Seeing smiles and hearing laughter from your friends. * 45. Holding hands with someone you care about. ** 46. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change. *** 47. Riding the best roller coasters over and over and over. * 48. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you. * 49. Watching the sunrise. * 50. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day. ** |
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| DEATH TO CHAIN LETTERS | |||
THE SEVEN BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS: CHAIN LETTER TYPE 1: (scroll down)
STOP!!!! Wasn't that fun? Hope you made a great wish. Now, to make you feel guilty, here's what I'll do. First of all, if you don't send this to 5,096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be attacked by a mad goat and then thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It's true! Because, you know, THIS letter isn't like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!! Really!!! Here's how it goes: *Send this to 1 person: One person will be mad at you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be mad at you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *5-10 people: 5-10 people will be mad at you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *10-20 people: 10-20 people will be mad at you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *20 to 674,951 people: 20 to 674, 951 people will be mad at you for sending them a stupid chain letter. Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!! CHAIN LETTER TYPE 2: Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Remember, we have no way of counting letters sent and this is all bull. So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder - if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly. Thanks again!! CHAIN LETTER TYPE 3: Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no e-mail then and probably not as many little 8-year-olds writing chain letters. So this is how it works. Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like: STUPID HORROR STORY #1 Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently received this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of poopie, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died. This Could Happen To You!!! STUPID HORROR STORY #2 Dexter Bip, a 13-year-old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his girlfriend. They both died. Their families were so upset that everyone related to them(even by marriage) went crazy and spent the rest of their miserable lives in an institution. This Could Happen To You!!! Remember, you could end up like Pinsley and Bip did. Just send this letter to all your loser friends, and everything will be OK. CHAIN LETTER TYPE 4: As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends. Friends A friend is someone who is always at your side. Now pass this on! If you don't you'll be eaten by wild goats. CHAIN LETTER TYPE 5: This e-mail is wicked-cool! It was started by Microsoft to test its e-mail tracking system because, you know, a big high-tech company like Microsoft always sends important new software out over the Internet to be available to any moron who can operate a computer, right? Plus, they have formed a secret merger with Disney Corp., who has agreed to give up millions of dollars in revenue by giving everyone who reads this e-mail, passes it on,looks at it, knows someone that looked at it, or is related to someone who is a friend of someone who looks at it A FREE, ALL-EXPENSES-PAID TRIP to Disneyland, DisneyWorld, or EuroDisney! So pass this on to everyone you know that is gullible enough to believe this (or not)! Even if it's not true, hey insulting all of your friends by implying that they are gullible by sending this to them is worth the improbable chance that you could go to Disneyland! Even if you lose all of your friends because they are tired of receiving this kind of junk from you, it's worth the chance, right? And just for good measure, if you don't send this on, Microsoft will send its specially trained attack-goats to pilfer your house and eat all of your family, SO SEND IT ON!!!!! CHAIN LETTER TYPE 6: VIRUS WARNING!!! If you receive an e-mail entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, messes up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you attempt to play. It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will program your phone AutoDial to call only your mother-in-law's number. So be careful! Forward this to all of your friends, relatives, neighbors, family, enemies, plumbers, garbage men, stock brokers, doctors, and any other acquaintances! It's for their own good! Thank you. CHAIN LETTER TYPE 7: Here is a cute picture I drew: ( \ / ) ( \ / ) ( /<>\ ) ( / \/ \ ) / \ __ ( ) ( ) It is a decapitated angel. Send it on to all of your friends so it will brighten their day like it did yours! If you don't, demon-possessed goats will move into your house and eat all of your socks, leading you to believe that something is wrong with your washing machine because all of your socks keep disappearing. Have a nice day!!! Remember, the moral of the story is, if you get a chain letter, ignore it. If it's a joke or something, send it, sure, but if it's gonna make people feel guilty (i.e., the starving legless armless goatless boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen) or nervous (i.e. Miranda Pinsley who ended up in a waterfall of turds) just delete it. Do yourself (and everyone else in the world) a favor, and say,"DEATH TO CHAIN LETTERS!!" "Before I criticize a man, I walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot." |
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