May 2011
3 posts
Child Laborers Rescued From Leather Shop. →
theinformedvegan:
Forty-four child laborers were rescued from a leather goods shop in New Delhi where they were forced to work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions with routine beatings.
The children, most around the age of 10, were reportedly beaten and kept in a small room at a leather shop with…
April 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
open.salon.com "I don't support the troops"
I lost 58,000 of my brothers in Vietnam because people “supported” the troops. 58,000 who died so in the year 2010 some of you can spend thousands of dollars to take a vacation in a land that we attempted to “bomb back to the stone age,” just a few decades ago, and be waited on by people who were our sworn enemy. Why were they our enemy? We didn’t know…we just supported the troops....
August 2010
1 post
Nutrient-rich food for PEOPLE
Simply put, raising cows takes more energy, depletes more fossil fuels, and produces more carbon dioxide. Consider that 70% of grain grown in North America is consumer by animals, not by humans, and it takes 16 pounds of grain to net 1 pound of meat. That’s a huge energy loss and an inefficient use of land. Also, because fields are over-farmed, the soil in which we grow our food is...
June 2010
2 posts
Human Trafficking →
One victim, “Harriet,” is described in the report as an American girl who ran away from home when she was 11 years old and moved in with a 32-year-old man who sexually and physically abused her and persuaded her to become a prostitute.
“In the next two years, Harriet became addicted to drugs and contracted numerous sexually transmitted diseases,” according to the...
May 2010
3 posts
April 2010
4 posts
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An...”
– Madalyn Murray O`Hair (via a fantastic short post on ProudAtheists) (via sharklauncher)
“Being gay isn’t a choice, but being a bigot certainly is.”
– LZ Granderson
Myth of the “gay lifestyle”
Legalizing Marijuana
Even if it was legal, I would never date a guy that smokes it. Any man I know that smoked it, was never a winner.
“I’m still an atheist, thank God.”
– Luis Bunuel
March 2010
12 posts
After seeing this... →
mohamednoordeen:
The Children of Palestine: A Photo Essay on Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
I’m not sure what disturbs more — the fact that Israelis are guilty of these war crimes and just how many innocent Palestinians they have killed and are still killing. Or the fact that a lot of countries support Israel and…
It’s pretty telling how one views humanity by how one views this conflict. It...
“Government interference in healthcare has already infringed on choices available...”
– -Ron Paul
I agree that our system is a mess. Why can’t we get it together?
“Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I...”
– Paul McCartney
via:misterpeace
“Is it anthropomorphism to try to imagine yourself into a farmed animal’s cage?...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals(via ratsandcandy666) (via deepwithfuture)
“The other day, Sarah Palin said she’d like to have coffee with Hillary...”
– Conan O’Brien
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain...”
– Sarah Palin
She is made of ugliness.
Dear Abby,
In a letter to “Dear Abby” a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
Her suggestion - ‘You could move.’
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding...”
– Ernest Gaines
“The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it...”
– Joy J. Golliver
January 2010
4 posts
“I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if...”
– Jules Renard
“We have no revolution. We have no movement. We have welfarists and pacifists —...”
– Camille Marino (via secrets0ciety)
So true, blogging about these things is not enough. Thank you for this wonderful quote.
December 2009
4 posts
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he...”
– Leo Tolstoy
Blogging again. Lovely reminder.
Kosher Meat...bleeding to death
Kashrut prohibits slaughter of an unconscious animal. Kosher slaughter is carried out by slitting the throat without stunning. Animal rights groups that object to kosher slaughter claim it can take several minutes for the animal to die and thus causes suffering. Since the spinal cord is not severed completely at the first cut, it is thought that the slaughtered animal’s nervous system...
November 2009
5 posts
Watchhereblog:
PETA’s Thanksgiving ad, submitted to air during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, was rejected by NBC.
OMG, was NBC’s whole “Green Week” thing just a temporary marketing tactic, rather than a genuine commitment to the health of our planet?
“The standard diet of a meat-eater is blood, flesh, veins, muscles, tendons, cow...”
– Robert Cheeke (via deadtimes) (via hereblog)
L'Oreal launches a campaign to remove animal...
fuckyeahanimalrights:
Because we NEED more blush and eyeliner….
France, home to the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, has quietly launched a legal action aimed at killing off a historic EU ban on animal-tested cosmetics, the Guardian has learned.
The EU measure, agreed this year after 13 years of negotiations, will phase in a near-total ban on the sale of animal-tested cosmetic...
October 2009
4 posts
Average and Total Numbers of Animals Who Died to...
fuckyeahanimalrights:
Chickens Total number died for food: 8.13 billion (7.67 billion for meat, 458 million for eggs) Average number killed per American meat-eater: 27.5 (26 for meat, 1.5 for eggs) Average number consumed per American lifetime: 2,147 (2,028 for meat, 120 for eggs) Turkeys Total number died for food: 269 million Average number consumed per American meat-eater: 0.91 Average...
September 2009
32 posts
“The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can...”
– Jeremy Bentham (via veganinspiration)
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve...”
– Unknown
Treatment of Cows for your butter. (Land O'Lakes)
This blatant disregard for animal welfare is routine in the dairy industry. Cows are kept constantly pregnant in order to make them continue to produce milk, and they are hooked up at least twice a day to machines that extract the milk intended for their own calves. When their exhausted bodies are “spent” and can no longer provide enough milk, they are sent to slaughter, usually for...
