Gary Francione explains brillantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.

Gary Francione explains brilliantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.

Funny Video Justin Timberlake Veganville

Justin Timberlake - Bring It On Down 2... by IdolxMuzic

Doing Good ...How and Where... get a start

I know when we do something good and selfless, to help or save a Human or Animal in need it does more good for us. In my experience we get back more then we put in. Doing good should become an addiction. There are tons of ways to do good. Pick one. Mine is helping animal and bringing awareness to help all animals. One ways you can immediate get a jolt of "feel good" and light feeling in your heart, is by taken the step to becomes Vegan. Immediately you realize your action are now contributing to GOOD every day. You shop more aware, when you eat you feel joy, other than merely please of the palette, you feel joy of the heart as well. You start to learn so much and your actions on a daily bases effect so many animals and humans alike. Vegansism is about going good through actions. Also please spay and neuter your pets. Too many pups to many kittens add to the suffering. THANK YOU!




http://www.veganoutreach.org

 http://www.hopeforpaws.org/

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/

http://happytrailsfarm.org/

Just Give
https://www.justgive.org/donations/help-homeless.jsp

http://animalfarmfoundation.org/

http://www.gentlegiantsdrafthorserescue.com/

Georgia Horse Rescue
http://www.gerlltd.org/

http://darkhorserescue.org/

 Go Vegan With Sarah Kramer
http://www.goveganapp.com/

Love is Love

What a great video!

When I see young people like that I get very hopeful.

Please help to defeat Horse Slaughter Bill

The Roar Foundation and Shambala Preserve
Please help to defeat this bill

Action Alert

Calls needed immediately to defeat HB1999, a bill that would make it legal to slaughter horses in the US and sell their meat. It is critical to defeat this bill which is now in committee and expected up for a vote by Tuesday.

When you call the committee members be polite, brief, professional and always mention the bill number HB1999 (HB stands for House Bill).

10 minutes of your time will make all the difference in the world!

Call each person below and ask them to oppose HB1999.
David Derby, chair- 405-557-7377
Glen Mulready, vice chair - 405-557-7340
Jeanne McDaniel - 405-557-7334
John Enns - 405-557-7321
Mike Shelton - 405-557-7367
Arthur Hulbert - 405-557-7310
Jon Echols - 405-557-7354
Randy Grau - 405-557-7360
Rebecca Hamilton - 405-557-7397
Mike Ritze - 405-557-7338


http://www.okhouse.gov/Committees/CommitteeMembers.aspx?CommID=185&SubCommID=0

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Selective prosecution .... this is so wrong!

I am a Vegan, as such I do not consume any animal related products.
I wish everyone were vegan. I want to persuade people and convince people that going Vegan is the best way for a person’s health as well as for reasons of consciousness. Animal cruelty to farm animals is really horrible, when you seen behind the curtain of factory farms you can never go back. As a vegan, yes I would like to see people change away from animal products.

Here is what is upsetting to me about this story. Our federal government is going after Raw milk producers and selectively and unjustly persecute and shut them down.
Everyone involved from the Sheriffs to the Police are aiding an evil government.

It does not take much to figure out that this has nothing to do with protecting the public from dangerous milk and cheese product. This is all about the Dairy industry using it's political powers (bought for with their millions) to shut down an emerging competition. There are more and more people waking up to the DANGERS of the Milk and Dairy products. Cows shut up with drugs, milk contaminated with drugs and hormones and those are not removed by pasteurization,. With each sip of standard pasteurized milk out children re being poisoned.

Of course I know that any milk is dangerous because milk contains Casein which has been linked to different types of cancer, not to mention allergic reactions and stomach problems. Humans are not meant to drink milk other than their own species milk i.e. MOTHERSMILK or eat cheese. But that is a whole other story.

I don’t think people will ever be forced to do anything or give up anything unless they are persuaded to do so.
I try my best to educate my friends and associates to the dangers of Milk or better DAIRY in general. However if they drink milk I would probably tell them that raw from a small local farm milk is saver then the government approved mass production factory farm milk. I have educated myself about this and I am speaking from what I have learned. People have been drinking raw milk and eating raw cheese for centuries and are still doing so in many countries but only in America is our evil government persecuting these farmers. It’s all political it’s the huge Dairy industry that is behind this.

They should be brought up on charges of fraud, because they have been selling defective product to millions of Americans for the longest time now and all GOVERNMENT APPROVED!
The action by this government to persecute these small indie producers goes against all justice and really disgust me.

Mother and Son to Open Vegan Soul Food Restaurant in Harlem

With all of the soul food spots in Harlem, how would you make yours stand out from the pack? Easy: Create a specialty store, or in this case, a vegan soul food restaurant. The team of Chef Brenda Breener and her son Aaron have secured enough funds through Kickstarter to open Seasoned Vegan next month. The "super-strict" establishment will serve 100 percent vegan soul food.

read full story
http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2013/01/mother-and-son-to-open-vegan-soul-food-restaurant-in-harlem?r=mobre

Lev Tolstoy and the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path

Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007
Lev Tolstoy and the Freedom to Choose One’s Own Path
Andrea Rossing McDowell, PhD
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without
forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all
day every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about
them whatsoever.
-- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1988)

Committed to the idea that the lives of humans and animals are inextricably linked, Lev
Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) promoted—through literature, essays, and letters—the
animal world as another venue in which to practice concern and kindness, consequently leading
to more peaceful, consonant human relations. The focal point of Tolstoy’s philosophy of humananimal
relations, however, is susceptible to distortion or misinterpretation. On the one hand,
some scholars minimize or dismiss as extremist Tolstoy’s renunciation of hunting, his vegetarian
lifestyle, and his rejection of animal subjects for medical or scientific purposes.

...Tolstoy includes animals among those downtrodden, dominated beings
whose own needs and protection are discounted for the “benefits” of those in control. Thus
mindful of the subjugated Other, Tolstoy realizes he must “turn his back completely on the
system of values accepted by the comfortable elite to which he belonged” (Walicki 326). Only in
this way can a person freely live an ethical and humane existence: by disavowing society’s
system of values—including the devaluation of non-human animals. These ultimate realizations
and convictions at which Tolstoy arrived provides a valuable framework for recontextualizing
earlier literary works, in that the animal realm aided his efforts to discern what it means to be
human and humane, and to live by deed rather than words....

Read full document here
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/mcdowell-tolstoy.pdf

Making t/ Connection Chp 7 Ethics

Find Your Inner God Power and Embrace Nonviolence!

The bible was written and edited by a handful of powerful PEOPLE. I question their motives. Much of what was first written came about at a time when most people were illiterate. The words in this book can not be trusted. Translation after translation leads to misrepresentation! It's the biggest brain washing scam in the history of mankind that has been the catalyst for all the “ism” then and now. I have a thought that even the Church in Rome KNOWS THIS.

EVOLVEing must include the rejection of violence and oppression of all kind, starting with the violence promoted by religions. If you want to be close to God look inside yourself and listen to your heart! The God power is the genius that embodies all the knowledge, that is in you at the time of your birth. You hear the message every day. When you see suffering and you feel moved to tears, that is the God power within you. You don’t need a book, or a Church,  the knowledge lives in your heart and your brain and body is your Church.

If you see something that makes you feel very, very bad, so bad that you want to look away and pretend it does not exist, don’t look away but instead reject violence and act according to what your heart tells you. All hearts are vessels of Love but  corrupted societies over millennia, have been able to mislead the hearts of mankind. There is time to change and take the loving kind and compassionate path.

A true loving God will never tell you it’s OK to kill, neither a person nor an animal, nor a baby born or unborn. EMPATHY (the ability to feel the other’s pain and suffering) is a gift from the God power, given through the miracle of nature and life by birth. Don't stomp on your own heart because of a book. Society has been led astray,  don’t trust what Churches give you permission to do.  Be the change you want to see. If you want to see a non violent, peaceful world start with yourself. Find your inner God and live a life of nonviolence. Go Vegan!

Dunkin' Donuts' Egg Supplier Exposed!

Growing Mushrooms

Artist: Jah Sun Song: No Bones No Blood Album: Height of light More Love Productions

Good news!

Grains, vegan, gluten-free, artisan meats and Africa: 10 foods for the future

Here are the 10 foods for the future, according to Canadian chefs.

1 Ancient grains: We're talking kamut, spelt, amaranth, teff and other grains that haven't been altered by plant science for commercial purposes like bigger yields and pest resistance. Proponents say ancient grains are more flavourful and richer in nutrients.

2 Gluten-free beer: Gluten intolerance or allergies sometimes extends to hordein, the gluten in barley. Buckwheat and sorghum are the most common no-gluten substitutes for barley in North America but rice, maize, amaranth, flax, millet, teff and soybean have also been used to make beer.

3 Vegan entrées: That means no meat, fish, poultry, dairy, eggs or for that matter, honey or gelatin. The term "vegan" was first used by Donald Watson, an American, in 1944. He used the first three and last two letters from the word vegetarian. He said it was the "beginning and end of vegetarian."

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The depths of Human Depravity

The depths of Human Depravity

Celebrity chef Beppe Bigazzi upsets viewers with his cat casserole

When you read the story following the link above is basically about a cook who suggested cat stew on a Television cooking show.
While it is of course unthinkable for most feeling humans that we start to eat our pets, the article talks about the historical facts like during hart times people in the region ate cats. All this is well and good and anyone who knows me by now knows that I have become a vegan for moral and for health reasons in 2008. I have since reversed my high cholesterol, I have no more heart palpitations, no more swollen hurting feet, I increased my good cholesterol to what my Dr. Office calls "Marvelous" my blood pressure is that of a 20 year old, I have lost weight and totally reversed my digestive problems I had my whole life. God has blessed me because I am doing the right thing when it comes to my nourishment for my body and respect for his creation, so now he blessed me with good health. I thank God for that.

Since I've become Vegan I share all that it has done for me with people, if they want to listen. I have learned that most people do not want to hear that if they omit animal products they can reverse many of the health problems they have and prevent them if they start early.

I have come to the conclusion that right now, people would rather be or get sick then forgo animal protein consumption. They still hope for miracle cures from drug companies, no matter how many side effects those drugs may possess. Just give me something that I can take, so I do not have to change how and what I eat. People are not ready. It seems things have to get worse before they can get better. It makes me sad, for people but more so for animals because they certainly don't ask for the rotten deal they get. Humans on the other hand have the power to decide what to put in and on to their bodies.

More on the dangerous effect to our health presented by consuming animal protein will be featured in a film by Dr. Colin T. Campbell this summer. This will be ground breaking, a message that is simple but will not be welcomed by those who profit from what makes us sick and those that profit from promising to make us well again. God has a plan and the day will come where we will look back at all the terrible disease that plagued us and wonder what took us so long. But that day will only come if we are willing to listen and learn and be silent long enough to hear the message and then change our ways. The day we start listening to God, God will listen to us.

Back to the article about eating cats.
What is as disturbing to me than the article itself, is the heartless, ignorant and plain stupid comments, some people leave below the article.
Individuals who reduce important issues to clever one liners. Obviously padding themselves on the back for being so clever and crude, Uncaring, heartless, selfish, ignorant and mean.

Is this what we live next too? Is this my neighbor. Is this someone that if I see them in distress on the side of the road I should lend a hand? Are these the same people going to Church every Sunday? Who are these people??? I am trying so hard to give people the benefit of the doubt, trying to believe that humanity is evolving to be better people, kinder to all living creatures, I am trying to believe that Christians are going to extend the kindness they extend to humans eventually also to our fellow earthlings and God's creations the animals as St. Francis of Assisi, but when I read comments like these I say where are the people of good will?

We are all supposed to be brothers and sister but yet there seems to be an alien species walking among us. One that has a stone where "Humans" have a heart.
They can not be humans. I do not want to believe that humans can truly be so callous!

Here are some of the comments: The first one is typical for someone with a one track mind who probably can't walk and chew gum at the same time. As if protecting both unborn babies and protecting animals can't be done at the same time. All life is sacred ! Thank God for a few people speaking on behalf of the poor animals.

Roger Bannister wrote: Let me guess... protect the cats but abort the humans. February 17, 2010 2:14 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

R T wrote: So, which do you prefer ? Kentucky Fried Cat or Kentucky Fried Chicken February 17, 2010 1:34 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Andrew Thomas wrote: Luca Lieghio wrote: "Having lived in both China and Vietnam I have eaten dog and, less often,cat.Its nothing special.These animals aren't pets,they are farmed for food." Luca, you obviously no idea how cruelly these dogs and cats are killed. They are slowly hanged until dead through suffocation as it is believed it makes the meat more tender. If you want to condone inhumane cruelty, continue eating dog and cat. If not, then shut up. February 17, 2010 1:33 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Frank Moss wrote: He's welcome to come & try to get my cat; after his attempt, I'll be eating "long pig." It's all just meat, right? February 17, 2010 1:29 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Karl Bird wrote: I'd eat it, it's just another animal. Why no huge uproar every time he recommends a beef, chicken or pork dish? Give me one good reason why cats or dogs shouldn't be farmed as livestock. February 17, 2010 1:23 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Nicholas Halsey wrote: A lot of people seem to be very dogmatic about this mans culinary catastrophy February 17, 2010 1:23 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Peter Fone wrote: Didnt think it would take long before someone starts blaming the poor old moggy for the reduction of wild birds! Look in the mirror, the biggest reason is human, in urban areas we have taken away any decent nesting & feeding areas with out fenced, not hedged gardens, smaller gardens in new developments & concreting over gardens for hard standing for cars. Yep, we kill more than cats! February 17, 2010 1:11 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

imran khan wrote: Big Deal, all this fuss over cats Surely more important issues exist. I wish I could cook my neighbours cat, at least it would prevent the constant mess it makes in my garden February 17, 2010 1:07 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

Kevin Flanagan wrote: Served with catfish and catmint catkins in a cat's cradle of catnip ketchup.

Dectora Ryan wrote:
I must admit to hesitation about cat ( I am very fond of my cat). I have eaten dog (quite nice), donkey( much better), horse (really very good) and camel (say no more).
February 16, 2010 5:06 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Not all human food animals are herbivores. Pigs are omnivores like us and are often fed with food derived from other mamalian species. And of course most fish are carnivores or omnivores.
February 16, 2010 5:00 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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P V wrote:
Ah, cat!
It makes the purrfect meal with a catnip garnish...and Chianti.
February 16, 2010 4:38 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Jo Boxer wrote:
"Why can we eat lambs but not cats?"

We've somehow evolved to eat the flesh of animals who don't eat flesh themselves. In many cultures it's taboo to eat cats and dogs but it's open season for non-carnivorous creatures!
February 16, 2010 4:38 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Paul Reeve wrote:
I see nothing fundamentally wrong in eating cat . Cat au Merangue would be a typical example of how seefarers of old would have put their pussies to good culinary use . Indeed, a class of vessel came to be named after this succulent dish.
February 16, 2010 4:29 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Seymour Likely wrote:
They were selling cat at the restaurant next door to the theatre last Christmas.
I saw it on the A board outside: "Puss in Boots"!
February 16, 2010 4:26 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Peter Cressall wrote:
Donald Heath: have you ever tried cat with mint sauce?
February 16, 2010 4:21 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Luke Slikely wrote:
I'm SURE my local Chinese & Indian takeaways have been using cats for years!
There's a Burmuda Triangle round here, where a week doesn't go by without a lamp post ad for a "Missing Cat".

The immigrants were nicking ducks and swans from the canal at one point too. They look upon it as FREE FOOD.
February 16, 2010 4:20 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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K Jordan wrote:
I'm a vegetarian and obviously outraged by his comments but putting that aside; human beings only eat herbivores, i'm not sure if that is because eating carnivores would cause us health problems or if we just think that any animal (apart from ourselves of course!) that eats another animal is disgusting but cats eat mice and rats - think about it!
February 16, 2010 4:13 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Marco Piva wrote:
Horse meat is indeed delicious - and a very "normal" dish in the Italian cuisine. Cat can not be served (in the Vicenza area they serve rabbit calling it in suggestive ways) - and I still can not understand why.
February 16, 2010 4:02 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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If you want to read more depraved comments go to the article

If we continue to eat flesh and consume animal protein, it will be our downfall for numerous reasons. Genetic degeneration (has already began), sickness (increasing), chronic disease (kills more flesh eating people, then any other cause and is preventable) the result is needless suffering, earlier death and genetically inferior new generations.

Those that do not change their ways will not be able to invoke God in to their lives, not until they live up to his expectations.
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Eight out of 10 men and nearly seven out of 10 women in England will be too fat by 2020, according to new data released Wednesday.

Researchers said that while recent research showed obesity among children levelling off, instances among adults show no sign of doing the same.

Some 41 percent of men aged 20 to 65 will be obese by 2020, with 40 percent overweight, according to the figures from the National Heart Forum, based on data from the Health Survey for England. That makes a total of 81 percent.

Among women, 36 percent will be obese and 32 percent overweight -- a total of 68 percent.

By 2050, this will lead to sharp increases in the number of people suffering strokes, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes, researchers said.

"These trends demonstrate that the cautiously optimistic picture we presented in November 2009 for a levelling off of future obesity rates among children is not mirrored in adults," said Professor Klim McPherson of Oxford University, who also chairs the National Heart Forum.

"There are already more men who are obese than who are of a healthy weight and by the end of the decade, obese men and women could out-number those who are overweight."

Britons were "being overwhelmed by the effects of today's 'obesogenic' environment, with its abundance of energy-dense food and sedentary lifestyles," he added.

The research used figures from 1993 to 2007 to predict future obesity levels in England. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.906180e1b0b7b0f19676e09ec712c66e.a71&show_article=1

Forks Over Knifes

http://forksoverknives.com/

What are you feeding your children?

So here you can see for yourself how horrible these animals are treated. I just don't think this is acceptable.

I came across this document about a workshop called
What to do about downer cows?
Workshop looks at a question whose answer is more complex than ever.
Read the pamphlet here
It's like pages from a twilight zone story on how to humanly kill a cow and how to tread downers and all the verbiage is just so eerie to me, considering we are talking about living beings.

They show this old lady practicing a bold stun gun devise on a bale of hay and I am thinking "Is she going to actually use this?" Considering their own description of how precise you have to be in placing this bold in the right spot to actually stun teh animal, and that you have to use the correct bolt size etc etc I can see why this is just not realistic. To actually pretent that there is anything humane in they way we kill these beings is being willfully blind to their suffering and to reality. When you compare the text, description with the reality of some of what we see in the video above you see that everything looks good on paper but in reality its a whole different story!

Judge for yourself.