“If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other, then skinning them alive to make collars to sell to their friends, you’d rush him to a …
Feb
18
Quote of the Day Friday #10
“Could you look an animal in the eye and say my appetite is more important than your suffering?” -Moby Related Posts: You Are What You Eat Why I’m Vegan by Know Thank You Why I Am Vegan: Walter Bond’s Story
Feb
11
Quote of the Day Friday #9
“To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you’re a philanthropist who doesn’t give to charity’” – Howard Lyman (aka “The Mad Cowboy”) For info on how eating meat effects the environment, here’s a good summary to start with. Related Posts: Quote of the Day Friday #8 Quote Of The Day …
Feb
04
Quote of the Day Friday #8
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men.” – Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Related Posts: Quote of the Day Friday #9 Quote Of The Day Friday #7 Quote Of The Day Friday …
Jan
28
Quote Of The Day Friday #7
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, etc., when playing together, like our own children. The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it …
Jan
21
Quote Of The Day Friday #6
“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.” -Dr. Neal Barnard *** I finally joined a CSA! (Don’t …
Jan
14
Quote Of The Day Friday #5
“Take one impulse, your hankering for a hot dog. Multiply it a hundred million times over and follow the lines as they meet in Utah at that 50,000 acre facility, housing all those hogs never once allowed outside. That is the complex world one craving creates. Most people can’t even face the details behind it. …
Jan
07
Quote Of The Day Friday #4
To follow up on yesterday’s post… Many people suggest the buying organic eggs is the answer. I just want to clarify that organic does not mean humane. Organic simply means that the animals were not given growth hormones, antibiotics, nor fed food that had pesticides on it. Organic eggs still come from hens in filthy, …
Dec
24
Quote Of The Day Friday #3
A prayer from Saint Basil, the bishop of Caesarea, circa 375 A.D.: Oh, God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom Thou gavest the earth in common with us. We remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man …
Dec
17
Quote of the Day Friday #2
A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: “Cattle dragged and choked… knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process …
