Animal breeding, Falafel vs. Cornmeal, and goin' against 'Da Man!
In the Tacoma LJ community, chaoscat posts an offer for a friend who is selling 8 wolfdog puppies. Outrage, discussion of economics, grocery store fraud at the self-checkout, and unintentional hilarity ensue, when Killtacoma and Scorpio398 protest the apparent ethics of the OP.

killtacoma - i think its shitty of people to breed and sell animals for profit when hundreds are being euthenized at local humane societies. way to go asshole! im especially disgusted at the pricing for markings. seriously, fuck you.

chaoscat - Little girl, they aren't my dogs. If you knew how to read, you'd know that. Go pop your pills and have fun with your girlie-friends, and when you grow up, then we'll talk.

scorpio398 - selfish breeders and buyers of animals need to grow up.

Anonymous, presumeably KT forgetting to log in, makes the Opinion move - if you knew how to read you would know that im not a girl. you research very poorly. you read an instance that happened over a year and deduced that i am a pill popper, way to go! i never said they were your dogs. you posted for your friend on a public forum and having an opinion i decided to share it even when you deleted it the first time. would it have been more appropiate for me to have began with TELL YOUR FRIEND: ?



Others respond to Killtacoma and Scorpy's declarations of others' greed, by bringing up KT's personal journal entry detailing their encouragement of others deliberately entering the wrong items at the self-checkout counters of grocery stores for the sake of cheaper purchases. Alas, KT is infuriated over being referred to as female once again.

Killtacoma - im not a girl, how did you conclude that?
how am i raising the prices for everyone? if you read the post it should be very clear that STEPHANIE did so bitch to her.
how am i lying, stealing, and casting stones about other poeples lives?

damashita - [quoting from KT] at the self checkout today stephanie used the code for falafel when buying nutritional yeast when clearly she should have used the code for corn meal which is cheaper.! 0.80 vs 2.50 for falafel, the yeast is like almost 6. falafel has green bits in it [end quote]

You are right... you didn't state that you did this act... you were just telling someone else what she should have done in order to steal MORE from the company (pick a cheaper cheaper item rather than a bit cheaper item). That makes you much more honorable. i apologize.

Scorpy leaps to justification for KT's supposed acts (or, uh, not).

scorpio398 - i support stealing from corporations. i consider it my duty to do so. for one, many corporate grocery stores engage in unethical practices, so we should do what we can to stop them, one way being hurting them financially. for two, we should not have to pay for food. the corporations and the capitalists who charge for food are stealing from us, the people. by stealing from them, we are taking back what is ours.

damashita - Tell that to the farmers who only get pennies for the dollars we spend. Stealing doesn't give give anyone more money or resources, it just adds to end prices for everyone and can even reduce money for farmers (and if you think they don't deserve a hell of a lot more than they get, you are heartless as well as stupid)[...]

Gradually, it swings back again to the animal breeding issue.

killtacoma - what disgusts and upsets me most about this thread is how some one is able to determine the value of something living based soley on markings.
shouldnt they all be as valuable as the next?
how does COLOR make you more valuable?
whats so wrong with being female red with brown eyes ($350)? and how is that less than being husky type with blue eyes ($500) if your friend sincerely cared about the animals wouldnt he value them all the SAME reguardless of COLOR?