Get Ready for World Go Vegan Week
posted by: alicia graef 39 days ago
Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
It’s almost time to celebrate World GO VEGAN Week with In Defense of Animals (IDA). This October 25th through the 31st mark IDA’s fourth annual celebration.
The purpose of this campaign is to get people to take time to reconsider the effects of industrialized farming on humans, animals and the environment by educating people about vegan lifestyles.
From IDA:
World GO VEGAN Week is also about celebrating what it means to be vegan. Veganism enables people to live in balance with all of Earth's creatures and promote freedom from exploitation for animals as part of their everyday lives. Modern animal agriculture is cruel and violent toward the chickens, cows, pigs and other creatures used to make meat, milk and eggs. During World GO VEGAN Week, we encourage people to become conscious of what - and who - they are eating, the effect it has on the world, and that a non-violent alternative exists.
Check out World GO VEGAN Week for a list of ways to get involved from recipes to community activities.
Read more: ida, veganism, animal welfare, world go vegan week
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Dogs eat all sorts of shit. Omnivores. You are right to say there are different omnivores. Those that eat meat;shit;plants;fungi; and so on.
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Cats are carnivore.
I look after a dog. Dogs are omnivores like us humans.
She loves to eat what I cook and eat: vegan. And she is very healthy.
Omnivores can choose what to eat. Carnivores can not.
(there are different types of omnivores even)!
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VERY EXCITED!* THANK YOU*!
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This is an article about trying it for a week. It's not calling anyone wrong or evil for eating meat. If you don't want to participate, don't! But why the attacks?
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Rispondo a Camila T. Noi vegetariani e vegani, non riusciamo a capire come si fa a mangiare un cadavere.La macellazione e una pratica atroce, e le persone che mangiano carne, mangiano il dolore e la tortura senza un minimo di rimorso. Io non ho nessuna simpatia per gli onnivori..
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Cindy: You ask why some vegans are so hateful to meat eaters. Well, I'd like to ask someone, why meat eaters so often are hateful to us vegans. I never try to force my opinions on anyone, but often enough meat eaters want to force theirs on me. So I guess the answer is, some people are just rude, whether they are vegan or not.
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I have been vegetarian for 11 years and recently went vegan. Why? I felt better after becoming vegetarian, much better. I'd done that because my family is prone to stroke, and releasing especially red meat from the diet can help to prevent stroke. What I also learned along the way is that dairy aggravates sinus congestion because dairy products create mucus in the body system. So now, my sinuses are much clearer and I have more energy! More energy without meat and dairy? Hmmm. Why do I feel so much healthier? What I've also learned is that the lower we humans eat on the food chain, the more energy we have and the less energy it takes to grow our food. Cows, for example, take lots of grass - hence, lots of acreage - to feed. Oh, wait. That is, if they are allowed to roam freely in a pasture. Most are not. For their sake, I would rather avoid forcing them to be my source of food when they are being farmed in such cruel ways as factory farming practices typically do. Yes, as an omnivore, I can make these choices. A cat, however, is a carnivore. It cannot make these choices. If a cat became vegetarian or vegan, it would become ill. But I can choose, especially when I can be so much healthier and feel so much better WITHOUT the meat, dairy, eggs and cheese. Really? And, I never thought I would feel this way. Yet, I'm doing just fine without them and not supporting factory farming. As I see it, and again, didn't think I would, eating as a vegan is a way most animals can be happier.
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A favorite passage from Plutarch - "Can you 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 did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?… It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beautyand grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being."
—Plutarch
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The previous comment is an answer to Alan H., by the way.
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