I wasn’t often directly confronted with the horrific injustices (imprisoning & enslaving the innocent) and abject cruelties (mutilation, infanticide, sexual assault, and murder)* of the globe-wide animal agriculture industry on this Walk, and yet my Soul was deeply crushed every time I did so … “Our self-instilled self-importance as a species is based on a […]
I then came to a roadway underpass and paused briefly therein – to be inspired by some graffiti that had been left for me to find*, and to offer my own greater wisdom to be found by those who might follow … “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other sentient […]
It was at around this time that I saw something that was simultaneously intriguing and heartwarming; a place in the barbed wire fence running alongside the path where a few local sheep had obviously escaped their human-laden captivity … “You have just dined, and however discreetly the animals are kept in their mountainside paddocks or […]
I had blissfully forgotten that Pamplona is one of the world’s many hubs of culture-excused cruelty, and yet this Running of the Bulls swag-shop sadly reminded me of the same … 🙁 “Courage and grace are a formidable mixture, and the very last place you will see either is in a bullring … I went […]
“Oh, what vile violence we inflict upon the innocent! So much so that the decent are left to wonder: What could a cow (or a chicken or a pig or a turkey) have ever done to warrant the wrath of God Himself?” ~ inspired by Gary Yourofsky P.S. If you bow down to any celestial […]
If animals are awake enough to deserve air conditioners on their transport trucks, then they are also awake enough to never be put into transport trucks … “My own view is that our planet is being used as a penal colony, a lunatic asylum, and a dumping ground by a superior alien civilization; a place […]
“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and the land and all its nonhuman residents. Indeed, a sincerely healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of Community, then, we are […]
It didn’t really matter where I saw animal abuse, and it didn’t really matter what kind of abuse I saw or which species was being afflicted. A mixture of rage and revulsion rose from within me every single time the same was witnessed, and I found myself repeatedly praying for a much kinder world, and […]
And then I passed by another depressing casualty of callousness – a bastion of barbarity – a festering cultural wound that is so often found in places like this; places frequented by the vapidness of tourism and the vanity of mere tourists. There is nothing educational in imprisoning the innocent, my friends, just as there […]
We would all do well to remember that jokes making even indirect fun of the suffering of others are in no way funny or even mildly amusing; and that all they succeed in doing is expose those whose sense of empathy and justice and goodness and compassion has been duly drowned in spiritual sloth and […]
I walked onward that morning, enjoying y time alongside the river immensely, until I the path came to an end and I exited to see a local McDonald’s nearby. I was thirsty at the time, so entered the establishment to follow my rote script and exclaim why I was walking and ask for a drink […]
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