I had to go all the way to the animalblog in the UK to read the letter of Kim Hodge asking people to watch his video. As he and his friends have entered a competition and the winner is decided by the number of viewing.
Anyway it is relevant here because they decided to donate the prize money if they win to a no kill dog shelter in Phoenix Arizona and helping a no kill shelter is a worthy cause in my book.
So people just watch the video - the competition ends on October 4 so you have plenty of time left.
Practicing sport is used many times as an explanation that is supposed to justify not switching to a vegan or a vegetarian diet.
The truth is that such a diet change is an advantage of athletes as it enables them consuming a lot of proteins that they body can process much easier and more effectively than meat.
If you read the post on Geari Blog you’ll reach a much more detailed discussion focusing on Tony Gonzalez delivering the message of a better diet to his friends at the Kansas City Chiefs.
Just remember going vegan is not just about what you take off your diet it is also about what you bring into your diet.
If you are a sportsman or women thinking of going vegan or at least open to the possibility consult with a dieticianand you’ll be surprised to see how much better you’ll feel look and perform.
Toffee was neutered at a young age and he still loves to play with his special pillow so I can’t really attribute his behavior to the memory of sexual pleasure. Can he has a memory of sexual pleasure from when he was few months old?
I think that it is more a way of feeling in control maybe partly because he is such a small dog and I can be very assertive at times.
If each time I were to open the refrigerator I would see a picture of a starving person from another part of the world I would eat less I would especially wouldn’t be able to eat meat.
If each time I went to a restaurant I would see a photo of a starving child I would probably have an easy time being vegetarian.
The trick that we are all playing is the trick of duality, we have food on one place and we have the starving people of the world on another place, somewhere we can’t see them unless we try.
Would the knowledge that stopping the consumption of meat alone can help solve world hunger, help the environment, help the poor animals whose happiness and the right to be treated with minimal decency we completely ignore, change anything in the actual human behavior?
I feel that it is not the lack of knowledge on the intellectual level it is the distance between cause and effect. Seeing an animal killed every time one of us orders a steak would probably change the amounts of steaks ordered dramatically. The problem is that we can grasp the connection in our minds much easier than we can grasp it in our hearts.
It is that deep emotional realization that changes behavior naturally be entering compassion to the equation and it is so much easier to close our hearts.
The problem is that living with a closed heart is really not a very good way of living.
Whenever things work out naturally in a way that even the most well intended person can imagine I always feel a sense of recognition, remembrance perhaps, of the great wisdom of nature and life and the recognition that developed primates are not ours to do with as we please.
Read the story of the baby gorilla being adopted so lovingly by the entire community of rescued gorillas in Cameron and see for yourself that the ability to feel, love and connect is not an invention of the human race.
What possible beside greed and pride can bring us to treat the whole range of animals as if they are here only for our pleasure and their needs and desires are subordinate to those of humans?
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Evelyn
javiera
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