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The Rise of Vice + other Weekly Discoveries
Vice: from welfare to billions, gay Trump, travel horror stories, feminist books, and more…
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Urbanette’s Friday morning series featuring the most interesting articles, video and quote we discovered this week. Enjoy!
The Rise of VICEThe amazing story of how VICE went from Canadian-welfare-funded to $4B valuation. [Read in the Ottawa Citizen] |
Former Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Became Vegan ActivistsTouching stories… [Read at Free From Harm] |
| Donald GAY Trump — because it’s pretty darn hilarious: |
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10 of the Most Inspiring Books for the Modern FeministBooks that are helping to shape social change. [Read at Viva Today] |
Seven Professional Travelers Share Their Travel Horror Stories“I once had a night in the woods in Yosemite when a guy was going around stabbing people…” [Read at Uproxx] |
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Reader Discussion: 37 Comments
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Nicole Derseweh
Trump video just made my day 😉
Emily Wentz
Terrific to see that people are waking up. The only reason I ever ate meat & dairy was because I was forced into it from infancy; I’m so grateful to those whose example helped me see that this shuts down wisdom and compassion for all of us; how fantastic that Renee’s heart was open enough to feel mercy. How courageous of Tommy to question the cultural programming, and trust his heart, and his love for a fine woman. Another positive sign of humanity evolving! 🙂
Amelia Beckons
Lovely stories about lovely people. This is what we need to see more of. Animal agriculture simply can’t feed the world’s growing population and people are beginning to wake up to that fact and the other, more obvious one: These animals want to LIVE.
Susanna Milton
My “to read” list just got a lot bigger. I wanna take a million days off and read them all!!!! So many good books on this list! Loading my Kindle right now. 😀
Christina Norelli
W O W !!! These travel horror stories really makes you think… I’m never travelling alone again. And I’m definitely getting travel insurance.
Debbie Jones
Good idea. When bad luck hits, it hits. It doesn’t care whether you’re home or on vacation. Travel insurance is a very smart idea.
Matilda Parker
RE: 10 of the Most Inspiring Books for the Modern Feminist: Emailing this to my book club. I’m sure my girls will be more than happy to read and discuss these books. Big thanks, Urbanette!
Sibel Jenkinson
Great list of books by feminist authors. I have read some of them. And I’d like to read the others. If it was my list however, I’d have made “Girls will be Girls” by Emer O’Toole my umber one. It’s not mentioned there, but I’d recommend all my fellow Urbanettes to read it. 🙂
Selia Szczepanska
I’m a vegan too and I applaud these former farmers’ decisions. If those people who made a living out of farm animals managed to go vegan, what’s keeping the rest of the world?!
Sibel Jenkinson
Absolutely!!! It may seem difficult, but it’s much easier than people make themselves believe it is.
For those who are interested, here’s a list of 14 more interesting people who have gone vegan.
https://peta.org/living/other/these-people-went-vegan/
Aylin Sanli
I love 9 out of the 10 of these modern feminist books. ‘How to be a woman’ by Caitlin Moran should not have been included; a book which addresses no global injustice WHATSOEVER. Pretty accurate with the other 9 though.
Andrea Mitchell
Some of these books are life changing, and evelutionary! But of course course, that was not a comprehensive list. There are many more vital feminist works. 🙂