Making a List, Checking It Twice
Okay, I don't promote or discuss my work here at risk of offending people who come here to hear about basenjis and junk, but I'll make an exception.In a year when iPods, tacky novelty sweaters and gifts screaming out obscene consumption are acutely out of touch with the current global realities, I encourage readers to check out the Beyond the Box - a Better Way to Give. Seed banks, cuys, women's literacy classes and HIV/AIDS training are gifts that won't break a budget and can contribute to changing someone's corner of the world.
Please pass it on to others, and add a link or widget to let more know about this chance to reach people around the globe
posted by Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) @ 1:24 PM
13 comments
13 Comments:
Okay, I'm sorry, but cuys are exactly what I thought they were, and I'm not buying any for anyone to eat. I might buy one for someone to snuggle, but only if they promised never to eat them.
And furthermore: Women reading? Preposterous!
Aunty Christ is quite a hoot, and her first paragraph kind of sums up my first thoughts as well. Sorry, niños! No "cuys for pets or meat"!
Actually, I may consider something from the site, and thanks for sharing it! I don't know, though, if I could pull off with a straight face buying someone a gift of a milk-goat in their name.
Aunty and Joe - Seeds and trees are always non-threatening. Thanks for at least checking it out
Seva is good too - Okay, they are my neighbors in the East /bay.
ArtSparker - Yes, they're good folks as well that I know well. Of course, I have my favorite!
Junk Thief, I'm sorry .. I'm being silly. I have enough people on my list who claim not to need anything this year, so I may indeed purchase seeds or a tree in their names. I am considering purchasing a cuy for myself from the animal shelter, but I don't think I'll eat her. I might lick her, though.
Aunty - That's super sweet of you. (I knew you always had a soft side beneath that wonderful cranky exterior.) Thanks for considering it. I'm with you on the cuys, but I won't judge the folks in the Andes for using them as a source of protein. All the same, I'd rather have my protein not include rodents.
JT, thanks for sharing this information. I am feeling the desire to change the world lately (or at least do what I can to make it a better place).
Gary - You are already changing the world for a group of certain first graders in the five boroughs. Thanks for thinking about doing even more.
I forwarded that link to everyone I know. :)
And even though it's ethnocentric of me, I can't bear the thought of buying guinea pigs for meat...espcially after having lived with one.
Also, thank you for basically doing all of my holdiay shopping.
Jill - Yippee! Thanks for going viral in a good way. Okay, I think there may be a cuy rights group forming, and I'll pass that on and try to reason with my Quechua friends the next time I'm in the Andes.
I really had to think hard about whether I've ever eaten rodent. Even the dodgy kebabs they sold on one corner of campus in Accra... I'm pretty sure those weren't "bushmeat" (aka: "grasscutter"). I've never been one to turn down a lovely bit of grill-charred meat, however.
Joe - Someday we must retrace the paths and (ahem) meat that we've consumed. Something tells me that we've traced parallel paths if not intersecting tangents in sub-Saharan West Africa (Lome, Accra, Segou, Dakar, Agu, Bamako, et. al.) But if you've never had cuy in the Andes, you have not yet lived, young man.
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