Today I am especially thankful for vegan activists everywhere. I know firsthand how frustrating it is to have the courage to open your eyes to See the suffering, to open your hearts to care for the abused, and then to bang your head on the often uncaring wall that is society’s disturbing (and sometimes repulsive) indifference thereto … And yet you keep fighting the truly Good Fight — you fight for the animals being tortured and murdered by the millions every day; you fight for our planet being destroyed bit by bit by the Machiavellian machine that is the animal agriculture industry; you fight for the health of your loved ones who are still killing themselves by ingesting the corpses of dead animals &/or the congealing leakage from the udders of the same … You rant & rail at the outright injustice of it all, and often it feels as though nothing is happening — often it feels like a complete waste of time.

 

And yet nothing could be further from the Truth. For you, my dear vegan activist Friends, are doing truly amazing things … Indeed, the world is changing for the better. There are more & more people going vegan every single day, and every single person you in-Courage to go vegan saves at least 100 innocent lives every year thereafter — not to mention the millions of gallons of fresh water, the thousands of pounds of grain, and the hundreds of pounds of greenhouse gas emissions saved as well.

 

We may not be able to move fast enough, I will admit — it might indeed already truly be too late, and yet IF our species does survive, it will be because of you and those like you … YOU are the true heroes of our time, and I salute each & every one of you with every ounce of my being.

 

Thank you … Peace to ALL

 

“I feel for the tragedy that we humans have become so numb that billions of animals are being slaughtered and mutilated in the most unimaginably torturous and barbaric ways, while our capacity to make life sparkle with fake beauty seems to increase every year. The Christmas decorations out in the streets are more magically beautiful, more polished every year. The rare times I see TV the ads selling ever more convenient and comfortable easy ways of living, ever more varied and bizarre ways of cooking and serving up our fellow creatures are more surreally perfect. Almost as if the display of beauty and flavors – the stimulation of our senses and imaginations is all to distract us from the truth of our mind-boggling cruelty to all other species and the destruction of the Earth … I feel for all the beautiful vegan activists for whom this time of year is the most stomach churning nightmare of being surrounded by unconscious people gorging on the flesh of animals, birds and fishes who we now see as equals, whose suffering matters no less than any human suffering the same fate would … To all these beautiful animals and human animals who have stepped out of the killing field, I want to say, next year, we will do so much better. Next year there will be even more vegan activists than ever before. We are doing so well, we’ve been so brave to look at this, to not turn away, to gather our strength and do what we can to stop it. I have faith in us, and faith in all those who are waking up now and joining us … So to the animals in living Hell: I am so very sorry…We are coming to get you…We wish we were enough in number to protect and save you all right now…We are working on waking everyone up as fast as we can.” ~ anonymous

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