OUTSOURCING

Huge companies outsource to increase their profits. They do not care who makes their product. They do not care who is affected.


They work under terrible conditions.











Child labor is still used in many outsourced companies.

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sources: waronwant.org
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lilith-ezine.com/articles/fashion/Nike-sweatshops-in-china

handmade

I wish more people realized how their clothes is produced! All of those huge companies are outsourced to poor countries. They pay their workers nothing. Those companies outsource because they want to make a bigger profit. Not to help out the people in those countries, to exploit them. You would think because it cost them almost no money to produce it would be cheaper, but no it is just as expensive!
They hire unqualified workers to make all the clothes. Sometimes it is extremely obvious how terrible the clothes is made.
Don't give your money to these huge companies who don't care about their workers, customers, or the quality of their products!
Support independent shops who care about human rights, their customers, and quality of their product.
By purchasing independent and handmade products you are supporting honest hard working people.By buying USA made products you can be sure that no one is underpaid in bad working conditions
I have been making clothes for a while now. I had been waiting to sell my clothes because i did not have a serger. Last year I bought one! It was great. I started selling stuff to my friends and kids around town. The main way i communicate with them is through myspace. I finally opened a etsy shop and started out selling some awesome vintage clothes I have been collecting for the longest time! I still have tons of vintage items i haven't even posted up!
I think it is so difficult to become well known through the internet! Well i guess i think that because i am just starting out. i have so many other things in my life right now that are important. I am a college student, i have a son and i am trying to sell my clothes. It feels so difficult because everything intertwines sometimes.
i have been trying to make more things this summer since i have more free time. I am only taking one summer class. I wish i had more time! I want to make so many things! I hope to make more things soon! <3

MEAT is the root of all EVIL

Many problems in our modern society are man made. with all the technology we have created, the negative affects of technology outweigh the good.the problems people create can be prevented; since most of the things that create problems are not necessary at all. the consumption of meat is not necessary at all. meat production and consumption is the cause of many problems in the world such as pollution, deforestation, exploitation of animals, obesity and ultimately death. besides being toxic for all living things on the planet it is also inefficient to produce meat.meat production and consumption does not benefit mankind at all, it only harms.

Obesity is the second preventable leading cause of death in America. two thirds of the adult US population is overweight. Only six percent of the vegetarian population is overweight.this means that obesity is related to meat consumption. Some obesity related diseases are: heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease high blood pressure, cancer, arthritis, breathing problems, erectile dysfunction, and depression just to name a few. cancers have been directly linked to meat consumption like lung, cervical, colon, prostate, breast, ovarian, stomach, bladder, and blood cancers. osteoporosis has been linked to too much animal protein intake. osteoporosis is the depletion of bone mass over time.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy also know as mad cow disease causes death in cattle as well as in humans who consume the cattle.Scrapie in sheep is related to BSE. over 1,600,000 cattle died in the UK in 1997 from BSE. It is almost certain that if you eat infected meat you will die. meat that is infected can be boiled for 30 minutes, frozen, and exposed to chemicals and will not be rid of BSE.Bone meal and maet meal fed to cattle caused the spread of BSE in the UK. Sheep remains in the meat meal were infected with Scrapie in 1985, when they saw the first out break of BSE.

Thousands of drugs and pesticides are given to livestock that are not FDA approved. Yet people consume the drugs when they eat meat. These hormones are said to cause early development in young girls such as early menstruation. Early development in females causes low self esteem and depression that ultimately leads to early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy, high school drop outs, single parent families, low education, and low income. It is becoming a norm in our society to develop early but it is obviously not good at all.

I say this from experience as well. Growing up my diet consist of large amounts of meat. I developed earlier than any one of my friends which did struck me as unusual as a child. I felt weird and left out. I did have a teenage pregnancy but graduated high school. I am considered to be a single mother but i continue to go to college. I do not want to complete that chain of low education and low income.

ANAHEIM

Sometimes I fell so helpless. I see people and I think I can not do anything to help them. All I can do is watch and know they exist. Tell them they will be fine. Give them crappy advice. I wish I could do more. They tell me what is wrong but they are probably telling the wrong person. I would love to help if I knew what to do. If I hand money or some kind of power. It is so difficult; I don’t know what to do! I feel like if I could do something for them if I were a different person. I feel like it is my duty to make them feel better. i would totally like to help but sometimes I just feel bad because i can not help. its weird that i think i have to do something; i just feel so uncomfortable because i can not do anything!

Last week two people were shot and killed in Anaheim. One man was shot on April 26 and the other was shot on April 29. One of the people that was shot went to the same high school that i went to. His name was Adrian Ramos and he was only 19 years old. I had some classes with him during high school. He was a year younger than me. I did not know him very well but many of my friends did. I heard from many people that he was shot once and tried to run off but he was shot again. I believed he died at UCI hospital. He did not deserve this he did nothing wrong, he was a good kid. He had some much more to do in his life.
Many people i know are angry that this happened because some gangsters were trying to mug him. Adrian had many friends and they are all so disappointed that this happened. It is terrible that we have to fear for our lives everyday. Those damn lowlifes have nothing productive to do but harm innocent people. Those people contribute nothing to society. All they do is leach off of every hard working person around them. Those bastards do not deserve anything good.
I wish the worst on them. I hope they rot in prison. I hope they understand how they will never be anything but a pain to society. They have no cause, no belief, no remorse. They only care about themselves. The world would be perfect without them. This world has had enough of that bullshit. They do not even deserve to live in a prison cell; they are not worth it. They take up to many resources that they do not deserve. They decided not to contribute, they chose that life, they do not deserve any pity. There is no need to save trash in a neat little pile. Might as well throw it all away. THEY WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE.

REST IN PEACE ADRIAN RAMOS

CAMPING DURING SPRING BREAK [part 2]

The last day we were at Big Basin we decided to take this 11 mile hike. We figured we could wake up EARLY eat breakfast, cook and pack a lunch and dinner then be on our way. We did not wake up so early that day but we still went because it was our last day there. We each carried our own backpack with food and water. There is a warning in the beginning of the hike that says, "WARNING STRENUOUS HIKE!" And it was damn tiring! It was really steep compared to the other hikes.
On our way up we stopped for a quick rest, a man was heading back all tired and sweaty. He said he was not prepared for that hike; he then asked us for water. He looked really tired, probably because he was pretty over weight. One of my friends gave the man a bit of water. I felt bad for that guy but then i started thinking about how bad the hike was going to be. It was pretty damn difficult.
We ate the lunch we had made for ourselves. When we finally got to the top there was an damn amazing water fall that we walked on to and took some pictures in front of it. there were tons of newtons in the water; it looked like some of them were mating. We all thought the waterfall was pretty awesome. We all thought the hike was well worth it. We kept on walking down and we saw that the waterfall continued! We were not expecting it to. There was a part of the water fall where we had to walk right next to it!! There was a thick wire to hold on to and we had to walk on some carved out rocks that made a staircase. It was super freaking crazy! It was pretty scary to look down; it was like we were about to fall down with the water fall. My friend Eddie took some pictures of Brittany and I walking down next to the water fall. The rock we were walking on was pretty slippery. Brittany and i were in front of everyone so we did not see when our friend Jose slipped! Eddie held on to him and Jose held on to the wire. Jose only hurt his elbow but he was okay. It was horrible to think what could have happened. I only saw Jose when he was already down. Brittany thought that Eddie would have been the one to fall because he is so clumsy.
The hike was worth it! the walk down was pretty nice its like we did not have to do much. Even though my toes kinda hurt by the end because we were walking down hill. So my feet were sliding down and my toes were pressing down on my boots hahaha weird. It was like i was walking on the tip of my toes forever!
This Spring break was the best I had ever had. I was with my close friends camping out in nature for 6 days! It was wonderful to be around nature. I cannot wait to go again, even though it has not been long since we went haha. TWAS GREAT!

CAMPING DURING SPRING BREAK [part1]

I went camping with some of my close friends. We left town the Thursday before spring break and we camped at Big Basin and Pinnacles National Monument. It was much better than i expected it to be. It took like 9 hours to get to Big Basin but it was well worth it! We went on some awesome hikes. I even had some bad experiences with the raccoons but I enjoyed it so much I did not want to leave!
Our plan was that we were going to stay at Big Basin for 5 nights and at Pinnacles for 2 nights. WE ended up staying at Pinnacles for only one night because it began to rain.
The first day we got to Big Basin at midnight. As we started to set up our tents I went to go get something form the trunk of the car. It was so dark when i saw the light of the trunk on and a FAT raccoon chewing on my bag of vegan cookies! It was frightened and ran away with two other raccoons. Then I saw that they had my vegan loaf of bread! My friend tried to scare them off but they were making weird growling noises at him. They hadn't eaten the bread yet but the bag had holes in it so i just told my friend to leave them alone since they were getting all aggressive.
It turns out they opened by backpack that was in the trunk and chewed through my cookie bag, ripped open my pita chip bag, and ate a whole loaf of my bread! These raccoons are so used to people that they know how to open zippers! A raccoon unzipped one of my friend's tent and unzipped his backpack because he had food in it the day before. There was no food in the back pack so the raccoon just made a mess of all my friend's clothes. They had to lock the zippers together from that day on hahah
We went on a hike to the top of Buzzard's Roost which had an awesome view. My friend was told that if we saw a Banana Slug that we would be lucky because they are difficult to spot or something. MY friend Brittany had been there before but she had never seen one. It was so exciting when we saw a banana slug on the hike up Buzzard's Roost! We took pictures of it and some of my friends even touched it hahah! They are so interesting, slimmy, yellow things. We thought we were so damn lucky when we saw a second one on that same hike. We saw a total of Five banana slugs on that hike! So then we thought we weren't THAT lucky if we had seen so many in one hike. On the way back to our camp we saw some kind of a newt walking slowly out of some water. My friend Jose was so excited to see one that he garbed it and let it walk on his hand while my friend Eddie took pictures of it. It walked really slow and it looked very tired after my friend let it walk on him for so long. I did not want to touch it but one of my other friends did. The next day we went to the headquarters of the park. They have many fliers about things at the park, things that are interesting, things to do, and dangerous animals. The newt we saw was on that list of dangerous animals! It is a poisonous newt! Nothing happened to Jose but we were all surprised. My friend Jose wasn't worried at all. He actually touched another one after he knew it was poisonous! Crazy bastard! He put it down as soon as we all told him to, it was terrible top think what could have happened.
The next day went on another hike and right from the beginning we saw three banana slugs. We were messing around on some tree that had fallen over. it was suspended a like a foot or two off the ground by another tree so we were walking on it. It was funny because it kept bouncing up and down. My friend Eddie thought he could stand on it while my other friend shook it. Well Eddie fell backward right onto a banana slug!! I had even warned them about it so they wouldn't step on it but the slug turned out to be okay. It just left Eddie's shirt really slimmy. That day I stopped counting how many banana slugs we saw after the fifteenth one! We saw sooo many on that hike it almost seemed like we were very UNlucky.

I live in the GHETTO and it SUCKS!

so some one was shot in front of my house a couple weeks ago. it turns out that a woman, man and 6 year old girl were shot. the man was shot in the back and in the leg. the woman was shot in the arm and the 6 year old was shot in the foot. there has been more and more gang related crime around my street recently. I have been living here for a couple of years and i always say i live in the "ghetto" but fuck! It seems like it never gets any better.
I dislike most people in my neighborhood. They always have negative things to say to my family. My neighbors are rude and ignorant. They always have lame parties that are excuses to get drunk. They have birthday parties for their children though the party is really for the parents. The music is always too loud just like their guests. These terrible neighbors invite the most disgusting people to their parties which urinate outside, vomit, yell obscenities, and litter. What is wrong with these people? They have no respect for other people's property. They can not even pick up after themselves. I feel bad for their children who will most likely have similar qualities as they grow up.
My neighborhood is really ghetto. I can never seem to get away from it. I try to ignore all of the bad things that happen around here but it is just tough. I have learned to stop talking to my neighbors since they always turn out to be nasty people. My family is usually so friendly to everyone because we are easily judged. No matter what people treat us like crap. For example my mom became friends with a married couple and she helped them out when ever they needed help. One day one of their cars broke down so my mom gave the guy a ride to work a couple times. It was one morning on the ride to work that this guy who was married made a move on my mom. This guy was a newlywed and he just had daughter. My mom became so mad that she kicked him out of the car in the middle of the street. That guy told my mom he was sorry and asked my mom what would he tell his wife. My mom said, "why don't you tell her what you did you damn pig?"
Then again that could just be stupid men. Just like my mom's other friend who has a sexist bastard of a husband.
A while after that incident happened my mom told our other neighbor the story. Her damn sexist husband was listening as was I. This sexist Mexican fool asked my mom if she was SURE she never lead him on. He said that women have to watch what they say around men because it might mean something different to men. SO WOMEN MUST TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT A MAN MIGHT THINK. BUT MEN DON'T HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION HOW WOMEN THINK. This man's thoughts were completely sexist. I could not stand listening to this sexist bastard and his ignorant views. I could not say anything though because it would have made no difference to his small little brain.
I am too poor to live comfortably; without stupid neighbors that is.

IGNORANCE is funny

I don't know anything anymore! I'm so confused about everything, it's terrible. It is like everything doesn't make sense anymore. Why do I do certain things? Why am I going to school? Everything seems like a waste of time. I am doing things because that is what society says i should do; it makes me a normal person. HA that is amusing because no one thinks I am normal for some reason. People see me and I can see what they are thinking. They look at me with disgust as if I was human garbage or some strange creature. They see me and judge me immediately. they do not think anything else, just how terrible I MUST be. Why do I go out of my way to do things for others? No one cares what I do for them, they still treat me like crap. i just want to do what I want. Fuck everyone, if no one cares then i don't either.
It is really funny to me how guys always want to start fights with me. they get so mad because i speak the truth and they can't handle it. I tell them that ignorant people try to solve things with violence because they can't express themselves. That just makes them more angry. I don't know what is wrong with males. They feel threatened around females who know more than them, so they would rather shut them up and put them in their place. It is like they can't take a female proving them wrong, so they have to prove their masculinity HA! By physically beating a female because they know that is one thing they can accomplish. I wish one of those guys actually hit me, it would be so damn awesome! It sounds weird but it would be funny.
People just need to educate themselves because they are so damn stubborn when it comes to learning something new. They cannot accept anyone's views, they can't even bar to listen to them. People like that make me frustrated sometimes. At the same time I feel sorry for them because they are just ignorant. That is the exact reason why people want to start fights with me; they are too ignorant to express their thoughts that they solve issues with violence. well no matter what i say this will continue to happen. There will always be ignorant people around so i would rather just enjoy their ignorant comment haahha

vegan/ vegetarian haters

I don’t understand why people who eat meat hate those who don’t. It doesn’t make any sense to me. It has absolutely no harmful impact on meat eaters. Not consuming meat only has a good impact on the planet. I have come across many people who think vegan and vegetarian beliefs are somehow wrong and unnatural. That is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard but it hear it all the time. Cow’s milk is not meant for humans to drink, it is meant for calves to drink. It is unnatural for people to drink cow’s milk that is why one out of nine people are lactose intolerant. People who are lactose intolerant are not able to digest lactose. A vegan or vegetarian way of life is not unnatural. A human drinking different species milk is unnatural.
I know this guy who calls himself my friend that always wants to prove me wrong. Every chance he gets he argues with me about consuming animal products. It is really funny to me how people who know nothing about a subject think they are right. He tries every day and I continue to make him look like a fool in front of our friends. I do not like to shove my beliefs on people. I am not like those religious nuts that walk door to door trying to convert people. I do not do that because I know it does not work. If someone asks me a question about my beliefs I am happy to answer. I love when people ask me questions about my beliefs (as long as they are not stupid questions). I do not like it when people ask me a question and they are just waiting for their turn to prove me wrong. You cannot prove someone wrong when they are right.
You cannot deny facts. Here are some facts: too much animal protein is a leading cause for osteoporosis, meat contains 14 times more pesticides than fruits and vegetables, and 90% of pesticides and hormones used in cattle are not FDA approved. How about that? The most important one I think is that meat diets are linked to many types of cancer including colon, breast, lung, cervix, uterus, ovary and prostate. There are so many things that people do not know about the things the put in their mouth. People should be aware of what they consume but people just don’t take the time to learn about those kinds of things.
No one will ever get me to eat meat so don’t try. This is what I believe and I will not change for anyone. I was not influenced by anyone, everyone in my family eats meat and I hardly know and vegetarians or vegans. I do not think I am better than meat eaters in any way. It seems to me that meat eaters hate vegans and vegetarians because they think we hate them. I for one do not hate anyone especially a group of people that include all of my family. If you eat meat do not judge the beliefs of those who don’t. Don’t hate me because I don’t eat meat.

weirdo

I am really behind on this blog thing. School has been taking up most of my time since I started this semester. I do not even get that much work yet but being at school has taken up most of my time. It was really crappy that we had to start school after a holiday. I had to make up work the first day of the semester! How freaking dumb. Well I do not know what to write about anymore I am just trying not to use contractions so I could have more words; how lame am I?

I told my brother Jorge that I had to write a blog for my class. He thought it was a good idea so people can see how I am actually like. Jorge told me that people might not judge me so harshly if they read my blog and realized I was an ordinary person. We have always been that family of weirdoes people stare at without noticing. I guess my brother does not like when people are judged based on their looks, but then again I do not think anyone does unless you are some self centered douche. Everyone prefers to be looked at differently so whatever. I do not think my blog would make any difference on how people judge me. I do not think people would even be interested in my blog to begin with because they have already judged me. That is so funny. Well I do not care who reads this, I hope no one does. Like one of my favorite songs says, I hate people and they hate me! That is not true though I do not hate people. I hate what they do and what they love. I love people but people are jerks. Well that goes for most of the people I have met so far. I guess I still have a lot of people to meet in my life.

I have not had time to sew recently. I start to sew then I realize I have something more important to do. I need money! I must sew! School comes fist right? Not if I am starving. Well I am not so it is alright. Ah I have been wondering if I have chosen the right career path. I have wanted to do the same thing since I was three years old. That is the exact reason I am not sure about it anymore. Maybe I just like that idea because I have been thinking about it for so damn long. I have always wanted to be a teacher. Think I am just pushing myself towards something steady. I want to get through school as soon as possible. I want to get though it so my son can have what he needs as he gets older.

Recently I have just been saying one thing, I just want to sew! I want to minor in fashion but I do not think I have time for that. I just want to be done with school and get some well paying job that I will not like. I will like it. I just will not like all the rules that come with it. I do not think I will be good at anything any time soon. I love to come up with new ideas for clothes and sew things but I do not think I could do the whole fashion thing. Fashionable people look at me and laugh but I do not blame them. I am not into that crap. Why the hell would I want to wear what everyone else is wearing? Oh let me just be a fucking zombie, let everyone else decide for me, I do not care what is chosen for me. How about no! I do not like to have the same clothes that other people have; it is just weird. It is pretty embarrassing. Sometimes I feel embarrassed for some people. I see girls every once in a while that do not know each other and are wearing the exact same thing and I could tell that they are embarrassed. The exact same thing! That is terrible; I hope that does not happen to me anytime soon. I have had enough of that. I wear these two pairs of boots all the time that my friend also has. I kind of sucks when we are both wearing the bright pink ones because they are so bright. Everyone comments about the boots when that happens. I do not even notice anymore, but everyone else does. I’m a weirdo.