Just like its cousins Love & Forgiveness & Kindness, Repentance for past wrongs can only truly become viable when that Repentance becomes a VERB. It is fine to realize that we have done wrong and caused great suffering, and it is good indeed to approach those we have wronged and tell them we are […]
“We have been told that using animals for ‘food’ (or for ‘fashion’, or for ‘research’, or for ‘entertainment’) can be done ‘humanely,’ and it suited us to think that this meant we were not causing those animals great harm … And yet this is simply not true. Everything we do TO animals causes them […]
“After many eye opening moments this year, I have learned something all-important that can be summed up in one phrase: we are repeatedly redefined as people by how we treat the innocent and the vulnerable … As such, being vegan is not about living someone else’s values; it’s actually about enlivening your own.” ~ via […]
“Newsflash: a sign of intelligence does not include covering a planet with slaughterhouses. Indeed, a sign of intelligence does not include developing a language in which the word ‘slaughterhouse’ exists at all.” ~ anonymous
“Can we really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part, I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man ever did so; the first man who ever touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a […]
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