I'm not sure if anyone is here from the reddit community, or remembers my tiny post about trying to find a way to package my dog food without using ziplock bags.
But basically, I said I make my dog food in bulk, using vegetables that where dumpsterd, home grown, etc. At the time I had a 150 lb cane Corso, only. So portions where already pretty large, I would process and freeze vegetables as needed and make a batch of dog food all at once in a 30 ish gallon stock pot, then freeze them in flat packs of ziplocks.
Since then I also have an incredibly high energy rescue pit mix puppy in my family.
I was given allot of advice, all of which I tried out.
The one that I thought would be the most promising was freezing them in sheet pan trays, scoring them. And separating them with wax paper.
No lie. This worked horrible. I tried many iterations of that. Nothing worked out.
I did end up finding a solution.
I found large plastic Tupperware containers. They're about the size of casserole dishes. Just twice as deep. I fill those and pull 2 out at a time one to defrost on the porch and the other one to throw in the fridge for a few days. By the time the first one thaws out, the one in the fridge is about kicked. These containers are pretty cheap. And I don't expect them to last forever. But I'm very careful with them and so far it works great! I should also say they seem to hold up longer than the reusable vinyl/silicone bags I tried. Tbh for most applications, I would recommend using Mason jars over them for pretty much everything.
I was so hesitant to buy plastic Tupperware that I ended up creating more waste in the long term.
And why are judges so harsh on sentencing women defending themselves or others?
It's also worth noting that the pedophile here was an ex cop. 40% of police families experience domestic violence. That study was done by cops self reporting their own violent behavior and abuse btw.
Men who kill their spouses for any reason serve an average of 2-5 year prison sentences, while women who kill their partners in self-defense serve an average of 15 years.
The deeper you delve into these statistics, the more harrowing the facts become.
Abusers are given light sentences while their victims are hit with the book, including women who have found out their partners have been sexually abusing children and snap.
None of this is to even start delving into the racial biases woven into the fabric of the US prison industrial system.
Another fun fact, approximately 77% of women incarcerated for murder were abused by their alleged victims.
That statistics follows approximately 77% of women incarcerated across the US legal system for any reason are themselves domestic abuse survivors.
Below is an article that highlights additional statistics and stories about the reality of sentencing disparities.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/13/justice-is-failing-women-forced-to-kill-male-abusers-to-stay-alive