Happy America day! To celebrate, Blood Is The New Black is offering 50% off a selection of red, white and blue threads today only. Just add’em to your cart and use the code AMERICA when you check out.

Enjoy, shoppers!

Hyper reflective goods from We Flashy for safety dancing, street walkin’, or cycling in the dark. Get yours via their Kickstarter campaign. 

Anti-war rally tees with bad kerning make nerds perspire when they’re shown on SNL.

Jessica’s Pedobear hat amuses children of all ages. Get yours here.

Upper Playground continues to be the only streetwear shop that amuses me with their healthy dose of art and walrus. Shop ‘til you drop!

Peace.
Lee 

I can surely say I was nowhere near this fashion conscious at 14. Has the internet saved kids from years of high school embarrassment?

More from Lookbook, where it appears the dudes still like their jeans as tight as possible.

After writing about the promising looking GalleryDK artist membership model in April, it appears the model didn’t work out as planned.

From the GalleryDK website:

After 2+ years of being open on Queen Street West, the owners of galleryDK have decided to close the doors on the storefront gallery.

While we had hoped that we could transition the space into a larger membership-based gallery, there doesn’t appear to be enough demand for the model to make it work.

Going forward, galleryDK will be an on-line only gallery.

More food stuffs. Yesterday, Sarah and Tara shared this article on the impact of meat production on the environment. It’s a good summary of what sounds like a well researched book.

I generally dug what is considered to be a well known geographical issue as Mr Monbiot points out that, traditionally, cattle and pigs fed off terrain not suited to growing food and on food not fit for human consumption.

In the face of factory farming, however, we reach a stumbling block with current practices: “If pigs are fed on residues and waste, and cattle on straw, stovers and grass from fallows and rangelands…meat becomes a very efficient means of food production.”

That’s an if that probably eliminates 95% of meat currently produced (super markets, fast food, restaurants, etc) and takes us back to the geographical issue of where these land areas and food sources come from. ie, are there enough scraps available to feed the volume of animals we’re raising for meat.

Mr Monbiot continues with: “we could still produce around half the current global meat supply with no loss to human nutrition”.

Unfortunately, I don’t see factory farmers making an effort to change their practices, all while they continue to pull soya beans out of the amazon. Disgraceful stuff really, and I encourage you to not be a party to this. If you’re going to buy meat, buy from local, trusted sources who know and care about these things.