So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is more pervasive then I ever thought possible.
I am shocked to learn that there are countries where animal rape is legal. OMG Really.
Where those that rape animal argue it's a RIGHT!
it is high time to extend RIGHTS to animal.
They are living feeling beings just like us and the notion that we can just do with them as we please because under the law right now they are considered just Property is abhorrent.
We are not civilised until we make the decision to give rights to animal.
Simple rights of not being hurt, raped, beaten used and tormented are rights that belong to all living beings regardless of their species.
We have no right to say otherwise, no more than if an alien species came on to earth they had a right to do with us as they pleased. We would not like that.
Every one has a responsibility to do something to end animal abuse.
if you don't do something you're an enabler.
Learn about it and get involved in stopping it. It's about what kind of world you want your children to inherit and doing the rigth thing now. Click below
Smithfield is a company with a black, rotten, putrid heart. They neither care about the animals nor about the people . They ONLY CARE About PROFIT.
UFCW & Paula Dean
In the Spring of 2007, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union
(UFCW) attempted to get celebrity chef Paula Deen to sever her ties
with Smithfield. Ms. Dean had been a paid spokesperson since the Fall of
2006 and is the first personality to become entangled in a union
dispute. During a sold out book tour in New York City in April,
approximately two dozen people supporting the unionization of the huge
Tar Heel, NC plant, held a prayer vigil out side of the Museum of
Natural History. As she responded to audience questions, a union member
tried to speak and deliver a letter. Leila McDowell and former
Smithfield employee Lenore Bailey were ushered out. According to a news
release from Ms. Dean:
“Now, I’m not an expert on the union situation but here’s what I do
know: I know the folks at Smithfield care about their employees and work
hard to support the communities where they live, work and raise their
families.”
After the incident, the North Carolina Council of Churches sent a
letter to Ms. Dean describing conditions at the plant. The letter
included a report based on data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA). According to the data, worker injuries were up 200 percent
since 2003. The company claimed its injury rate was no different from
the industry average. The union vowed to continue demonstrating at Ms.
Dean's book tours, on a larger scale.[5" from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods
They kill more than 30 million pigs a year. http://www.peta.org/features/smithfield.aspx
At Smithfield, female pigs
endure constant cycles of forced pregnancy. Newborn piglets are taken
from their mothers after just a few weeks. They have their teeth clipped
in half, their tails cut off, and their ears mutilated, and the males
have their testicles ripped out—all without any painkillers.
PROFIT trumps, goodness,kindness, humanness, ethics all of those get kicked and stabbed and beaten just like the animals, Smithfield simply see as nothing but a commodity and to increase profits Smithfield now sells to a Chinese Prepossessing Factory
I'm already Vegan "THANK You Grandma for giving me a good heart and common sense and teaching me to follow that good heart". So I don't eat PORK. If nobody ate pork, there wouldn't be any cruelty to pigs and BTW many people would live healthier and better lives without eating meat and all that fat that comes with it.
But it seems, it takes most people a long long time to come around and get on a plant based lifestyle.
Common now join... go Vegan! YOU CAN DO IT!
Smithfield Brand
FYI
Smithfield Farm products sold under these brand names:
Aoste
Armour®
Basse's Choice
Big 8's®
Bistro
Campofrío
Carando®
Casa Taraneasca
Cochonou
Comtim
Cook's®
Cumberland Gap®
Curly's Foods®
Del Mare
Dinner Bell®
E-Z-Cut Hams
Eckrich®
El Miño
Ember Farms®
Esskay
Farmland®
Farmstead®
Flavoré®
Genuine Smithfield Ham
Great
Gwaltney®
Healthy Ones®
Higüeral
Hunter®
Jean Caby
John Morrell®
John Morrell Off the Bone
Justin Bridou®
Krakus®
Kretschmar Deli®
Krey®
La Abuelita™
Lunchmakers
Lundy's
Lykes®
Marcassou
Margherita®
Mayrose®
Mazury®
Milano's Italian Grille
Morliny
Mosey's Corned Beef
Nobre
Norson
Olde Kentucky
Party Dipper®
Patrick Cudahy™
Paula Deen Collection
Pavone®
Peyton's
Premium Standard Farms®
Pure Farms®
Quick-N-Easy®
Rath Black Hawk
Ready Crisp
Realean®
Riojano®
Rip-n-Dip®
Rodeo®
Simply Natural
Sizzle & Serve®
Smithfield®
Smithfield Marketplace
Smithfield Self Basting
Smithfield Tender 'n Easy
Stadler's Country Ham®
Stefano's
Stegeman®
Sunnyland®
The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg®
Tobin's First Prize®
Valleydale®
Weight Watchers
Yano
Environmental issues
Smithfield churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers,
killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in the
history of the EPA. The company slaughters approximately 27 million hogs
per year, each hog with a slaugter weight 50% heavier than a person.
The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs per year is
roughly to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New
York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio,
San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San
Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte,
El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington,
D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
Smithfield actually faces a more difficult challenge even than
transforming the populations of America's 32 largest cities into
packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human
beings. The 500,000 pigs in a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah
generate more fecal matter every year than the 1.5 million inhabitants
of Manhattan. Best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at
26 million tons a year (enough to fill four Yankee Stadiums.) Even when
divided among the many small units that surround the company's
slaughterhouses, this is not a containable amount. [20] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods
H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1898977,00.html#ixzz2Uiu7uKqP
Trunnell's petition seeks to investigate claims that the H1N1 outbreak
began in Smithfield's massive pork operation in La Gloria and that the
virus may have been caused in part by the conditions under which the
farm operates, which the petition terms "horrifically unsanitary."
The famous pig shit lakes that bred the Swine Flu. The lakes are full of
pig blood, pig shit, rotting dead pigs and other charming and
delectable items. Note broken pipe. The smell from these lakes is so
horrible that workers are sometimes overcome, pass out, and fall into
the pig shit lake. Those who dive in to save them almost always die too.
It sometimes takes weeks to fish the bodies out. SOURCE http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/
Comments from Mark
" Smithfield is the largest hog producer in the world and controls almost
30% of the U.S. pork market. Smithfield’s style of industrial pork
production is now a major source of air pollution and probably the
largest source of water pollution in America. Smithfield and its
cronies have driven tens of thousands of family farmers off the land,
shattered rural communities, poisoned thousands of miles of American
waterways, killed billions of fish, put thousands of fishermen out of
work, sickened rural residents and treated hundreds of millions of farm
animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty." Read more http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/
Dead pigs left out in the heat to rot. Scavengers have been feeding on these pigs.
Listen folks the writing has been on the wall for decades now, you can't say you don't know.
If you like to see how you can enter in to a healthy compassionate Vegan Life Check out thisVegan Outreach it's a good start. http://www.veganoutreach.org/
We are a growing number of people. JOIN us for Love Sake!
While Children are starving we feed precious GRAIN to animals so our fat nation can continue this grotesque lifestyle of eating meat, dairy and eggs, add the refined sugar and and it all becomes unbearably sickening.
A VEGAN world is inevitable if we want to save the environment and create enough to eat and healthy food for everyone!
Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for
contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the
leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland
with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically
modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident
that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of
the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought
one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.
(NaturalNews) It`s a troubling and little-known fact. Today`s beekeepers
use herbicides, fungicides and insecticides in and around beehives.
They say they have no choice. Honeybees increasingly suffer from disease
and parasites, forcing their keepers to fight back with powerful
chemicals. But modern beekeeping practices put severe stress on
honeybees, possibly causing this weakened resistance to diseases and
parasites in the first place. These practices include unnatural feed,
migratory beekeeping, artificial insemination, and chemical treatments.
In part one of this series we`ll look at the first two practices.
Unnatural Feed. The only natural foods for honeybees come from
the nectars and pollens they collect. These foods contain vital
nutrients that optimize the health of these tiny insects. Bees carefully
vary their own diets, flying farther to find different blooms if large
amounts of nectar have been gathered from one type of plant. But today`s
beekeepers commonly feed their honeybees artificial syrups and patties
made out of high fructose corn syrup (HFC). Unlike the range of fats,
proteins, vitamins and minerals found in pollen and nectar HFC is devoid
of any real nutrition.
Ag-Gag Veto
In a victory for farmed animals, both in Tennessee and nationwide, Tennessee governor Haslam vetoed the state’s ag-gag bill. Learn more.
Poached Prostate
A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard has revealed a startling link between egg consumption and prostate cancer. Get informed.
Winning the War
A fantastic article in the Village Voice rips big agribusiness for its blatant attempts to silence whistleblowers and animal activists. Check it out.
Free to Be
Join Bob Barker, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Sam Simon, and other stars as we
celebrate MFA’s victories for farmed animals at unforgettable events in
Los Angeles and New York this June. Buy tickets!
Poisoned Poultry
Arsenic-based drugs given to chickens on farms have raised fears over
adverse health effects in humans, ranging from heart disease to
diabetes. Find out more.
Fecal Foam
A mysterious, foam-like substance has been discovered on pig farms,
bubbling out of manure pits and leading to dangerous explosions. Get all the details.
Ginette says: "Plants and especially medicinal plants have been an interest of mine ever since I worded in the Pharmaceutical industry. I learned that just about all medicines are derived from the chemical/molecular structure of plants. From poppies to Acorns, Dandelions and Yarrow the plant world is a well of medicines. A fascinating field to study.
I paint a new plant and always read about that plants all I can do understand it's properties. Over the decades I have learned a lot and use medicinal plants regularly myslef. I don't take any pharmaceuticals anymore today which is also dues to my vegan lifestyle.
Between the plants I eat and the medicinal plants I utilize, internally and externally, I haven't seen a doctor in years. Not even for a flu!"
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I am so elated and want to wholeheartedly thank the Tennessee State Governor Bill Haslam.
I will go to this web site and send him an message of gratitude.
He released this statement
Haslam Releases Statement on HB 1191/SB 1248
Monday, May 13, 2013 | 10:41 am NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam released the following statement regarding HB 1191/SB 1248:
“Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in Tennessee. Farmers play a
vital role in our state’s economy, heritage and history. I understand
their concerns about large scale attacks on their livelihoods. I also
appreciate that the types of recordings this bill targets may be
obtained at times under false pretenses, which I think is wrong,” Haslam
said.
“Our office has spent a great deal of time considering this
legislation. We’ve had a lot of input from people on all sides of the
issue. After careful consideration, I am going to veto the
legislation. Some vetoes are made solely on policy grounds. Other
vetoes may be the result of wanting the General Assembly to reconsider
the legislation for a number of reasons. My veto here is more along the
lines of the latter. I have a number of concerns.
“First, the Attorney General says the law is constitutionally
suspect. Second, it appears to repeal parts of Tennessee’s Shield Law
without saying so. If that is the case, it should say so. Third, there
are concerns from some district attorneys that the act actually makes
it more difficult to prosecute animal cruelty cases, which would be an
unintended consequence.
“For these reasons, I am vetoing HB1191/SB1248, and I respectfully encourage the General Assembly to reconsider this issue.” https://news.tn.gov/node/10688
Made some deep dish vegan pizza. We used a Pizza baker because we don't have an oven. We have a Maytag Stove that is only about 5 years old and a year ago the oven went bad.
It's not the first time we had problems with Maytag product, so I'll never buy Maytag again.
In the meantime till I can afford a new stove I use the Pizza baker, I even bake some great flat bread in it, fresh almost every day. Takes about 60 minutes.
Here are my photos of this delicious Pizza.
I made my own vegan mozzarella cheese and used it in the sauce. I use fermented wheat berries as stater for my cheese. I make it from wheat berries, it's called rejuvilac. There are videos all over youtube on how to make it.
My rejuvilac turned out great. It's important to use clean sterile container to make it. I clean them with alcohol.
I took tomato sauce and about 1/2 cup of the cheese and put it in the chopper chop chop chop about three times and that was poured on to the dough and then the toppings went on. Vegan breakfast sausage I had left over from a few days ago. Vegan Pepperoni all chopped up, peppers, tomatoes, onions, Italian herbs, salt and pepper, and a bit of olive oil that's about it.
