OrlandoDoom @ OrlandoDoom @feddit.uk

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I'm vegan, and I do honestly think that PETA get a bad rap for their animal shelter work, but their online presence is ridiculous and cringe and it doesn't surprise me at all that they get ripped to shreds constantly.

What's great is all the stuff I used to listen to in Uni (I'm 37 now) is also up there, like Torche and Manatees. Now I have the money to, I can chuck all these artists that I found in what.cd all those years ago a few quid. Whilst I'm sure they would have appreciated it more back in the day, I couldn't afford it and spent most of my uni years flat broke.

I try and buy albums at shows mostly! They don't put ridiculous markups on stuff at small shows, but some venues want a cut of merch sales too, which is why I'm assuming some venues you can't get a band shirt at for less than 30 quid. I could be wrong about this if course, but I have seen it at bloodstock where bands were literally just chucking merch off stage because they would have had to pay hundreds of pounds to have merch up in the festival shop.

Well, bandcamp bill their cut later as far as I'm aware, but when you buy an album you are paying into the artists PayPal account, you even see a partial email address. Unless that system is somehow lying.

That's my bet, it's the best one right now. Not sure why OP didn't just say it.

If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it's more of a "try before you buy service", and money goes directly to the artists' accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it's perfect.

Maybe look into setting up your own supply chain or paying the businesses you rely on enough money to fix their supply?

If fairphone can set up a whole new phone manufacturering supply chain to make sure they don't have any child slaves, I'm sure this isn't so difficult, it's many more suppliers, but many less steps.

Alternatively, go vegan and stop contributing to this barbaric industry.

I'd say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.

I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.

As long as it means more rights for the worker and not less I'm all for it.

Rice and beans is life

I've heard of this, but I'm not sure it's true, after searching I can't find a source that says it is either, are you aware of any studies that suggest this is true?

I'm not advocating removing meat from school meals either, just that everyone is catered for.

They have to serve it, not force it down student's throats though right? Is there anything restricting them from also serving something plant based at the same time?

It's a weird position to take, if I was offered parental leave I'd take it all and probably wouldn't want to come back to work.

Fair enough if you live in a place where people actually like their jobs and want to be there, but that doesn't seem to be the case for the majority of us.

Just cos you like animals doesn't mean you're not a capitalist.

Can't say I've seen any though I browse with an ad blocker and don't watch TV. When I do see adverts in the UK they are mostly fear mongering or trying to appeal to your ego.

0% for me :)

Is there a law that forces a school to serve meat to every student? That would be a weird law.

Schools should cater for dietary requirements, regardless of whether those requirements are for medical or moral reasons.

Vegans aren't difficult or expensive to cater for either, rice and beans are cheap.

39%? 60% seemed low. Glad I don't eat that shit.

It's mad that it's not equal, if mothers and fathers have equal childcare leave there's no need to discriminate against hiring women full time (which is a thing that still happens, some companies don't like to take women in their mind 20s full time cos they end up taking maternity, I saw this happen first hand while I was in RBS, that was only 2 jobs/a few years ago)

I've been pirating stuff for decades and never had so much as a warning from an ISP. Get a VPN.