it still strikes me as so horrible and upsetting that we live in a world where billions of adorable baby chicks are constantly being fed into machines that grind and shred them to pieces because they are not useful to us
Adam Hamawy describes what he wishes people could understand from his time treating patients in Gaza:
"Much worse" than what we see online.
"The smells, the full senses…crying children, the families…to see this every single day…you just can't even describe it well enough."
The situation we have reached in Gaza is harsher than anything imaginable. Mosquitoes and insects devour us to the point that my clothes are stained with blood from scratching so severely. Rats, on the other hand—I live in half a house, while the other half is bombed and filled with hundreds of rats, some weighing up to 1.5 kilograms each. Our children do not sleep at night out of fear. The bombardment is still ongoing, and the genocide has never stopped for a single day; every day there is a massacre. Every passing moment, I fear a missile will fall over my head. Furthermore, the famine continues; more than 85% of the people of Gaza depend entirely on food kitchens, and Israel still allows food in very minute quantities that do not suffice even 10% of Gaza's population. We are so tired of this situation. Until when??
Last yr I wrote about a form of PTSD some slaughterhouse workers suffer from: PITS, or perpetrator-induced traumatic stress. I talked to a worker in Europe named Tom whose story has stayed with me. You can hear it directly in this new, powerful documentary: Killing for a Living
"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."
This was one of the hardest stories I've written.
When people fail to spay/neuter, or buy a dog instead of adopting, the animals pay the price — and so do shelter workers and animal control officers.
Performing euthanasia, responding to cruelty cases, & more, is a huge burden.
If you are a US citizen, you have to understand that you are paying for this and this is your responsiblity. This looting is being done by an ally that can only behave this way because of US financial and diplomatic support.
“We have to sell weapons to shred toddlers in Gaza and Lebanon because it creates a relatively small amount of jobs compared to healthcare, education and infrastructure investment” is actually not a very compelling argument, politically or morally.
📍SF Bay Area
We still have all these very adoptable kittens waiting for homes somehow: Goomba, Toadette, Carol & Hubert, and Soda Can
They're getting close to 1 year old and are getting passed up for younger kittens. They're all extremely sweet 💔
In Tehran, a woman feeds stray cats daily during the war to make sure they’re not left hungry. I’ve seen so many videos of Iranians these days stepping up to care for street animals. Act of quiet love and compassion in the midst of displacement and despair.