Sunday, May 31, 2009

DIY Freegan Garden Bench Made from Pallets


Look at what my man built for me :)

He made the whole thing from pallets that we found in town.
I need to get more soil and pot the rest of the starts. I have zukes and tomatoes and eggplants that need permanent homes.

Now all the plants are up off the floor and that big white cat has a place to sit and watch the birds. See him there? He loves to watch the birds. He flattens out like a rug and thumps his tail back and forth, thump, thump, thump. I know cats are obligate carnivores but I'm not going to let him terrorize the neighborhood birds and most likely kill them when there is no need for that. I am glad there is a screen so he and can watch them all day in safety. Safety for him, too. I see plenty dead cats on the road and I don't want him to be one. He stays inside. MIL got him some fresh live catnip in a little pot. You can see it in the lower left. He chewed on it but he chews the onions, lettuce and the lily too, and I didn't see him get blissed out in any way so I don't think he's much of a nipper.

Sunday night. I should be on the mat and I will be later but I just had to post the photo of the wonderful garden bench that my man made for me out of pallets that we found. That means it was FREE!

Oh, and I got a jump rope. mmm, more exercise!

OOh, thunderstorm!!!

The Three Stages of Revolution


1. Ridicule
2. Violent Opposition
3. Acceptance

- Arthur Schopenhauer


Today's Juice!

A head of celery and a beet.


Pretty.


Saturday, May 30, 2009

Everything Bagel with Avocado


Simple lunch of everything bagel with one whole avocado sliced on top.

Banana Beet Deep Purple Smoothie

mmm beets! The man doesn't like beets very much. I think it's a stigma, but whatever. I try to sneek beets in when I can and this is a good way.
Also see:

Beet Meat Burgers

Beet Tortilla

Beet Juice













1/2 cup strawberries from breakfast that the boy wouldn't eat yesterday
2 ripe bananas
2 cups lettuce and ruby chard leaves from the garden woot!
about a 1/2 cup of beet
e3live and RenewMe!
Juice of one orange
20oz water and blend.
YUUUMMM!!
Seriously, it was too sweet for me! I put a little lemon juice in mine, wow!

It looked black in the blender but it came out a wonderful purple.
















So in conclusion, eat more beets. The roots can be eaten raw, steamed, fermented, marinated, baked (like a potato!) or juiced and the greens can be used like any other greens in salad, juice, steamed like spinach or chopped up in a nutloaf. I love this plant.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about beets medicinal properties:


The roots and leaves of the beet have been used in folk medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. Modern research is investigating in further detail how beet extracts could be used to protect normal and diabetic livers, as well as their effects on elevated cholesterol in individuals with cancer, and other medical maladies.

The Romans used beetroot as a treatment for fevers and constipation, amongst other ailments. Apicius in De re coquinaria gives five recipes for soups to be given as a laxative, three of which feature the root of beet. Hippocrates advocated the use of beet leaves as binding for wounds.

Beet juice can help lower blood pressure. Research published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension showed drinking 500ml of beetroot juice led to a reduction in blood pressure within one hour. The reduction was more pronounced after three to four hours, and was measurable up to 24 hours after drinking the juice.

Since Roman times, beetroot juice has been considered an aphrodisiac. The juice is a rich source of boron, which plays an important role in the production of human sex hormones.[citation needed] Field Marshal Montgomery is reputed to have exhorted his troops to 'take favours in the beetroot fields', a euphemism for visiting prostitutes.

From the Middle Ages, beetroot was used as a treatment for a variety of conditions, especially illnesses relating to digestion and the blood. Platina recommended taking beetroot with garlic to nullify the effects of 'garlic-breath'.

Beetroot has been used as a treatment for cancer in Europe for several centuries. The pigment molecule betanin in the root of red beets is under investigation as the cause of the plant's purpoted protective effects. Hungarian oncologist Ferenczi recommended beetroot juice as an effective cancer treatment. Recent scientific research has shown that beetroot can inhibit tumour growth and has antioxidant properties that may even help prevent development of oncogenesis.

So, yeah! Eat more Beets!

Friday, May 29, 2009

Today's Green Smoothie & Yesterday's Lunch

Huge thunderstorm last night. It sounded like a giant was pounding on my roof with a rubber mallet. Scary, but harmless, thankfully. It poured down rain and soaked all my plants so I didn't water today. I will water tonight. I think some of the leaves are getting a little yellow so maybe I should let them dry up a day. What do you think?

Anyway. I don't have a photo but today's smoothie was

2 banana
1 very ripe apricot
2 curly kale leaves
2 tbs fresh young coconut meat
2 tbs e3afa and renewme!

Dinner was steamed veges. Cauli, beets, green onions, potatoes, white onions.

Yesterday's Lunch was:


Hand Made Personal Vegan Pizza with Mozzerella Teeze Cheese Substitute.

I made a small pizza from left over beet tortilla dough. I spread it out put some tomato sauce, steamed veges, oat/walnut patty, crumbled, some mozz Teese which actually did melt a little bit!








I feel like that package of teese may last forever. I feel like if i buried a piece of teese in the back yard this fall, it would still be there next spring.



I baked that at 350F for a half hour. Perfect. Served it with a huge scoop of sauerkraut on the side, yay!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Avocado with Mango Chutney


Marvelous lunch, terrible photo.
















Made with Native Forest Organic Mango Passion Chutney. The website is edwardandsons.com. looks like all vegan products. I know I love the chutney.

my review of The Goodes

The Goodes

For a pilot, not too shabby. I will wait to see subsequent episodes until I really decide. You know how it is with pilots... or maybe you don't. Anyway. I liked it and think it will get better and better as it goes on and the characters and plot-lines develop, etc.

There was much satire and IMHO it was funny.

One of the many stickers on her car reads "support our troops and their opponents" which pretty much sums the attitude of the mother. The father is less neurotic but not by much.

In one scene the mother goes to the overpriced organic store and doesn't have canvas bags so rather than take paper or plastic, she takes neither and carries the groceries in her arms, loudly proclaiming that "canvas bags are made in sweatshops!" You see everyone in the store gasp and look at their bags and subsequent shoppers are seen leaving with no bags, carrying their groceries in their arms.

The concept of their adopted South African child is thought provoking.

Bottom line, if you like Mike Judge's work, you will like this. If you pick it apart you can find many faults. But it is groundbreaking and many people will see it and some of those people will stop eating animals as a direct result of this silly cartoon.

Unlike the way I felt about punk rock in the 80s, I WANT compassionate living to become mainstream. Please bring more mainstream television shows with vegans, please. Make me look silly, just let me be seen.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Leftovers for Dinner!


I made a wrap with collard stuffed with steamed veges (turnip, rutabaga, potato, collard, red bell and onion) from the other night, and a walnut oat patty from last night chopped raw onion and some of the teese that keeps amazingly well in the fridge.

Wednesdays Smoothie Brought to you by Coconut and Peregrin Took

What about elevensies? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? Has he heard of those?








Today's smoothie:






2 ripe bananas
1/2 cup fresh, young coconut meat
1 leaf curly kale
1 tbs each e3live and RenewMe!
1/2 cucumber
20oz water
Blend


I put up some daikon radishes in brine. I added two tsp of acv and a tsp of sugar because daikon is rather bitter.

2 weeks ago I put up a jar of kraut with a green apple in it at the suggestion of a blog entry here. It was a little moldy last week and I scraped the mold off and put it back for another week. Today when I smelled it I didn't smell a bit of mold and it was definitely sour! I will leave it for a couple more days and then put it in cold storage.











Daikon pickles in brine and green apple/cabbage sauerkraut.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Healing

I've been in bed most of the day.

I've been eating bananas, cherries and I had a pear and some cashew nut butter. Stuff I could eat in bed with little mess, ya know?

I didn't water yet today or do the laundry. I've just been in bed all day.

The man had a tooth pulled today. Noted.

Tuesday Morning Smoothie and Wild Edibles Discovery in the Back Yard


1 handful of red leaf lettuce woot!
1 leaf curly kale
1 RIPE banana
1 RIPE kiwi
5 RIPE strawberries
2 tbs gr flax
1 tbs each e3live, RenewMe!
20 oz water
blend







Did I tell you the dryer got fixed? I think I will use the lines anyway. Use the dryer for some stuff and put most of it on the line

That screened porch we have is the best thing ever. There are tons of bugs here because we are literally right on the lake. That little 10x14 screened in box off the side of the house is AWESOME! We can leave the door open to get breezes and to let the cat in and out without a swarm of various flying insects coming in. The cat can sit out there and watch the birds right close up and they are both safe. It's a great place to hang laundry and to a fabulous area to grow plants! No deer is gonna eat my 'maters, no how! I love my little garden room.

I strained my shoulder taking out my aggressions gardening. Maybe we should get a heavy bag... I found some kind of grape.































I cut the apple tree branches away from it so it can get more water and sunlight.














I see little tiny green grapes growing on it so I am very hopeful. This summer we should be having apples, cherries, plums, walnuts and now grapes growing wild in the yard. Oh, and nettles. I think our grocery bill should go down which is good, right?

Ok, I am gonna go rest my neck in bed for a while. It feels better than it did yesterday but not 100%. I hope to get some mat time in this evening if I'm feeling better. boo

Monday, May 25, 2009

A quickie with lots of photos

The topsy turvy tomato plant is growing a few tomatoes.













I can see six in this photo but I counted eight when I took it.


I haven't made any food the past two days. I've been eating leftovers of this meal
















All vegan of course...

Potato kulcha, mango chutney, tabouleh, quinoa, and a vindaloo with potatoes and carrots and peas.
The potato kulcha was made with tortillas that I put a cup of carrot and beet pulp in. I can't believe how good they come out. I don't think i will make tortillas without pulp again!

The tabouli was really good. I took a couple of kale leaves and some fresh mint and a quarter of an onion and a clove of garlic, in the fp, process until cut into tiny pieces.
Mix with soaked (raw) or steamed (cooked) quinoa, chopped tomato, lemon juice and olive oil.

The vindaloo was just something I threw together. Tomatoes and curry powder, mostly. Lots of garlic. The peas were canned.


Cucumber plants

















Red Sails lettuce and eggplant plants.

















Our garden is growing. I get a lot of help from the guys, thanks, guys.















My full cart shopping this week.

















Feast your eyes inside the potato kulcha
















My mint tea from this morning. I jammed fresh mint into a tea brewing spoon and put it in a cup of hot water. Delightful


















It was a busy long weekend and I'm tired. I will get back to regular updates once it gets back to "normal" around here.

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Quick entry

It's Sunday
We got a bunch more plants, lettuce, cucumber, eggplant. More tomatoes.

I will show you some photos tomorrow. Today was exhausting. Full moon.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Green Smoothie on a Saturday!


Hi!














handful Baby greens
handful Red lettuce
1banana
1kiwi
e3live, renew me
ground flax
flax oil
20oz water

Green and Creamy :) YUM!

In case you don't know, I am going to the Raw Food Health Expo in Santa Rosa, CA, July 25-26.
If you are going to be in the area I would love to see you! Register through link here before May 31 and not only will you get 50% off the door price making it a steal for 2 days at $39.99!

Here is the link to the website
http://www.rawhealthexpo.com/
Not a bunch of info about the speakers, etc but I assume that content will come later. Here is what they say about their exhibitors:

Our exhibitor list is expanding every day. Come back soon to see more exhibitors that will be exhibiting at the Raw Health Expo

• The RawFood Doctors

• DiscountJuicers.com

• The Raw Gourmet

• www.RAWFOODS.com

• Raw Glow

• Krazy Kracker Lady




I am going.
There is no doubt in my mind. I have already made it a fact.
I have visualized havin gthe money to do it.
I have visualized myself on a train, riding there, at the expo, sitting in a chair listening to Victoria, meeting her and shaking her hand... She's practically my neighbor, you know. She's in Ashland and I'm just a couple of hours away in KFalls.
I have visualized walking around the expo tasting raw food samples, talking with people, meeting people who feel the way that I feel about food and animals and politics...meeting actual people who don't eat animals or use animal products. What a great time this is gonna be!
I have visualized hitch-hiking with a backpack and a bedroll, even sleeping in a bush, and while I hope that isn't the eventuality, I am prepared for it.
I have also visualized staying in a motel and couch surfing, I'm not made of stone, after all :)


Ok, i should stop rambling and go do laundry.
I am going to make kulcha for dinner tonight. I will make the dough with juicing pulp like I did here.

I will let you know how it goes

What are you doing for Memorial Day? I plan on remembering our fallen men and women by not killing or eating anyone.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Raw Health Expo July 25-26, Santa Rosa, California

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Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies





Good morning everyone!
What a beautiful day juice feasting yesterday!



Shown with Roastaroma tea. These would be so good with coffee!






This morning I bring you my recipe for Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies. The cookie/cake isn't very sweet but the pecan date topping is. Serve these for breakfast, brunch or dessert. I had mine for breakfast this morning with a cup of roastaroma. I ate the garnish, too :)

The cookie is

1 cup of carrot pulp from juicing
1 apple cored and chopped
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
2 tbs flaxseed oil
Water if needed to blend

Chop in Food Processor with s-blade until smooth.
Spread on dehydrator sheet about 1/2" thick or as thick as you want your cookies to be.
Dehydrate at 120F for 2 hours or until you are able to flip it onto the rack.
Continue to dry at 95-112F overnight or until it's stil flexible but not crumbly.
Freeze the big cookie for two hours and then cut it into the size and shapes you want your cookies to be.

Topping
I didn't measure but
A bit handful of pecans
12 or so dates
In FP with s blade chop it until it's a lumpy paste
Press the lumpy paste to the top of a frozen cookie and shape it with your hands. Allow to thaw in the fridge and serve with hot tea or coffee.
















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For dinner last night I had a huge salad made from greens that I grew woot, sauerkraut that I made aw yeeah, and raw leeks and celery. I had a bowl of the potato leek soup slurp! and TWO slices of bread with brazil nut cheese nomnomnom.


Playing with my food













I was full but it felt good. I like juice feasting one day a week, but I really like to prepare food and eat it with my family, not just chop and juice and clean the juicer and repeat all day. One day a week is enough for me now. That could change in the future.

Pelicans

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Salad From My Garden


Red Chard and Red Sails Lettuce



The leaves are actually quite small, that is a 10" glass mixing bowl.

I grew them.

Jucie Feast Late Afternoon Snack! Hot Stuff, Baby!

2 head celery, chopped
a big hunk of ginger, peeled
12 drops tulsi tea
1 tbs lemon juice















It's clearing out my sinuses, yeah!

Juice Feast Mid Afternoon Snacks!
















2 heads of celery
1 kiwi
1 pear
1 apple
1 orange
1 lemon

Juice Feast Lunch Starring Cantaloupe!

I feel GREAT! Juice feasting is fun. I never feel deprived, on the contrary, I feel quite indulged. All the juice I want? hehe. I wouldn't want to do it every day, I do enjoy chewing, but I don't see where the deprivation is there.

I finished my celery cocktail and put about a half hour in on the mat. It's getting easier every day, I know I have gained a ton of flexibility since I started. I also did some upper body work with the dumb bells and the flexi-ball. my chest muscles and arms are hurting. Please, no more push-ups, please?
Then after laying on the floor for a while watching old sit coms, I looked at the clock and THOUGHT it was noon, so...

I made a cantaloupe milk smoothie for lunch.

Blending















Straining in a fine mesh strainer or use a cloth bag















I push it through with a bamboo paddle until there is nothing left but seed husks.
















Then Put it in a glass and drink it yum!















But wait! I thought it was noon! It's only 11am! Dang it. I wanted to wait until noon to have my cantaloupe lunch. Ok, so I...



Took all the plants out and watered them and then jumped on the trampoline for awhile. Wheew! what a work out that is!
















Hung up the wash













I like that I can hang the napkins folded and they are ready to go on the shelf when dry. Bam.

Made some cooked vegan leek and potato soup for the omni's dinner














Yeah, I will probably have some.

I saved about a cup of chopped raw leeks, celery and garlic from when I cut them all up so I could have some raw in my salad while everyone else eats soup. I will probably have a small bowl, but maybe not :)

It is made from
1 leek
2 celery hearts that I saved from juicing this morning
1 quart of broth made from juicing pulp (a great way not to waste. Make broth from vege juicing pulp. I have even used fruit pulp mixed with vege and it's delish)
2 potatoes diced nice and small
2 cloves garlic, smashed and sliced
a wee bit of salt

I will cook it in the big soup pan on low all day but it's ready in an hour or so if you take the heat up to med. Stir occasionally.



Then I baked some bread for the boy













I made it in a pie pan for fun. The boy likes to eat the bread and I sneak zucchini in it like this

1 cup water
1 peeled and topped zucchini
2 tbs vinegar
2 tbs sugar
1 tsp salt
in blender until smooth, set aside

2 cups flour
2 tsp aluminum free baking soda
1 tsp baking soda
whisk together until thoroughly mixed then add liquid and stir.

Pour in greased pan and bake at 350f for 1 hour.

Cool and serve, yum, you love vegetables, don't you? yes you do!
ahem
The boy is in trouble for acting up at school. There was an electronic communications incident and he is grounded from all computer, video games, television (unless we are watching), and I don't know what else. A salad and a bath every night, lol.


I watched the birdies in the bird feeders for a minute














It took them almost a week to find the feeders but now they are all over them, yay!








You can't see but they are orange headed finch type birdies.






And then it was noon and I started sipping my wonderful Cantaloupe Milk Smoothie and composing this entry. Now I am done with both and I think I will put my butt on the mat for a while longer.

Remember: Cantaloupe on an empty stomach and nothing for about 2 hours after or risk the wrath of your belly!

Raw Green Smoothies and Juices for Health Every Day!

Good Morning!

Today's Green Smoothie of Life















2 handfuls red leaf lettuce
1 banana
1 kiwi
1 tbs each E3AFA and RenewMe!
Juice and pulp of one orange.
1 tbs peanut butter
20 oz water
mmmmm.
I split that with the man. He likes the peanut butter.
After the guys left I had a big glass of carrot and beet juice.















That wasn't enough so I made one of my favorite juice recipes. This is a savory juice or a raw soup if you float some chopped up celery in it and serve it in a bowl.
Celery Cocktail or Raw Celery Soup















About 15 ribs of celery (two heads, minus the hearts. i use the hearts in soup later today!)
1 lrg clove of garlic
juice of one lemon.

Drink in the tangy, green goodness.

I love garlic. I try to eat or drink a clove every day if I can. I'm going to be juicing and juice feasting all day today so tune in for some more tasty, healthy liquid treats!


There was a June bug in the house this morning. He was moving really fast, this was the clearest shot I could get of him. He was released in the backyard shortly after this photo was taken and was probably eaten by a hungry bird with a bunch of chicks to feed but I don't know.















Have you heard the legend of the headless third grader?















Neither have I, but I have been seeing this guy on shores of Klamath lake, on the side of the road on sunny weekday mornings.

A haunting? I don't know.

Well, that was my morning.
Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to finish my celery cocktail and then go get on the mat. :)


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The Philosophy of Animal Rights by Tom Regan


The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.

That life includes a variety of biological, individual, and social needs. The satisfaction of these needs is a source of pleasure, their frustration or abuse, a source of pain. In these fundamental ways, the nonhuman animals in labs and on farms, for example, are the same as human beings. And so it is that the ethics of our dealings with them, and with one another, must acknowledge the same fundamental moral principles.

At its deepest level, human ethics is based on the independent value of the individual: The moral worth of any one human being is not to be measured by how useful that person is in advancing the interest of other human beings. To treat human beings in ways that do not honor their independent value is to violate that most basic of human rights: the right of each person to be treated with respect.

The philosophy of animal rights demands only that logic be respected. For any argument that plausibly explains the independent value of human beings implies that other animals have this same value, and have it equally. And any argument that plausibly explains the right of humans to be treated with respect, also implies that these other animals have this same right, and have it equally, too.

It is true, therefore, that women do not exist to serve men, blacks to serve whites, the poor to serve the rich, or the weak to serve the strong. The philosophy of animal rights not only accepts these truths, it insists upon and justifies them.

But this philosophy goes further. By insisting upon and justifying the independent value and rights of other animals, it gives scientifically informed and morally impartial reasons for denying that these animals exist to serve us.

Once this truth is acknowledged, it is easy to understand why the philosophy of animal rights is uncompromising in its response to each and every injustice other animals are made to suffer.

It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands in the case of animals used in science, for example, but empty cages: not "traditional" animal agriculture, but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not "more humane" hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

For when an injustice is absolute, one must oppose it absolutely. It was not "reformed" slavery that justice demanded, not "reformed" child labor, not "reformed" subjugation of women. In each of these cases, abolition was the only moral answer. Merely to reform injustice is to prolong injustice.

The philosophy of animal rights demands this same answer - abolition - in response to the unjust exploitation of other animals. It is not the details of unjust exploitation that must be changed. It is the unjust exploitation itself that must be ended, whether on the farm, in the lab, or among the wild, for example. The philosophy of animal rights asks for nothing more, but neither will it be satisfied with anything less.

Haiku Disclaimer

This works for me now
Find your own path and never
Take advice from fools

Insprirational Vegan Quotes

1. Animals that live in the wild kill other animals in order to eat. If I also lived in the wild would it still be inhumane to kill an animal to eat?? What about if I raised chickens in my backyard and cultivated their eggs for my breakfast omelet, is this inhumane?
A: Because animal flesh and products are not needed for human nutrition killing and eating them is inhumane in any circumstances. No kind of slavery is humane no matter how well the slave is treated. You can't respect someone and then exploit her for her eggs/milk/honey.

2. Do animal rights moralists take into consideration the domestication of animals i.e. history of farming, farming as the back bone to the establishment of the first civilizations. There’s not much literature about the reasons animals have become a central part of human life?
A: History is no excuse to continue to exploit non humans. Animals are not needed for human nutrition. That is a myth perpetuated by industries which make money exploiting non human animals.

3. Is domestication against animals rights? If so, does that make having a dog or cat or horse inhumane?
A: At this time there are a lot of domesticated animals that need tending. Most domesticated animals are just that. They would not exist as we know them if not for domestication. Breeding animals for pets or for food is unnecessary and inhumane. Adopt animals, have them spayed or neutered. Give them a comfortable home where they can live out their lives without being exploited. With time the numbers of "non-food" and "food" animals will go down and eventually there will be no more domesticated food animals or pets.

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice. ~Gary L. Francione

Merely by ceasing to eat meat

Merely by practicing restraint
We have the power to end a painful industry

We do not have to bear arms to end this evil
We do not have to contribute money
We do not have to sit in jail or go to
meetings or demonstrations or
engage in acts of civil disobedience
Most often, the act of repairing the world,
of healing mortal wounds,
is left to heroes and tzaddikim (holy people)
Saints and people of unusual discipline
But here is an action every mortal can
perform--surely it is not too difficult! ~Roberta Kalechofsky of Jews for Animal Rights

The ten commandments of Mother Earth


1. Thou shall love and honor the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.
2. Thou shall keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
3. Thou shall not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
4. Thou shall give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.
5. Thou shall educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.
6. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.
7. Thou shall not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
8. Thou shall not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.
9. Thou shall not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.
10. Thou shall consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty. ~Ernest Callenbach

"This is what passes for "food" in America today: A collection of nutritionally-obliterated, hormonally-enhanced, chemically-adulterated shapes of refined whatever, all hyped up to make them seem like real food when in fact they're just agricultural byproducts devoid of any real nutrition." ~Mike Adams


"I like not eating animals. Animals are our friends and we shouldn't eat them. Animals need us to take care of them and save them. My mom cooks us vegetables and pretend hamburgers and hotdogs and chicken nuggets and they are healthy for you and taste good! I told all my friends 'you should NOT eat animals!' I hit my friend Levi because he was eating a ham sandwich and wouldn't stop. Then mom said that Levi is an animal too and we have to be nice to all animals even if they eat other animals. I said sorry to Levi, but I wish he would not eat animals anymore. I also like not eating animals because my mom says it helps the earth, like recycling." ~Jacob, 6 yrs old


You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.~Anthony Robbins

It only takes a spark
~Daniel Andreas San Diego

Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
~David Stroud (of the American Meat Institute)

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts ;

even one thing befall them: as the one dies, so dies the other. They have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows that the spirit of man goes upward, and the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth? ~Ecclesiastes iii., 19, 20, 21.

There is no such thing as cruelty free slaughter or humane killing.
No slave is happy no matter what the owner tells you.
Go Vegan NOW!
Do it for the cows that have their babies taken away again and again for milk production.
Do it for the chickens who are de-beaked for egg production.
Do it for the pigs who have to nurse their babies on concrete floors.
Do it for the millions of humans who don't know any better.
Do it for the planet.
Do it for your health.

Do it because there is NO SUCH THING as humane slaughter.~
Judith Barnes

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals.

~Theodor Adorno

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
~Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), author (1885-1962)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Anne Frank

If "rights" exist at all— and both feeling and usage indubitably prove that they do exist —they cannot be consistency awarded to men and denied to animals, since the same sense of justice and compassion apply in both cases.
~Henry Salt, 1892

You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say, Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~Ellen DeGeneres

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
~Leo Tolstoy

Raw foods create living bodies, and cooked foods create dying bodies
~Sabrina Aird, Grass Root co-owner

You say it’s my personal choice, it’s not a personal choice when you’re ruining my planet and you’re eating my friends
~ Dave Warwak

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.
~ Alice Walker

Thou Shalt Not Kill
~ The Christian Bible

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy; if the world were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I wake up each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day.
~E. B. White

Don’t want to ruin the oceans? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the soy industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like monoculture? Go vegan.
Don’t like the environmental problems of the petroleum industry? Go vegan.
Don’t like greenhouse gas emission? Go vegan.
Don’t like animal exploitation and cruelty? Go vegan.
Want environmental sustainability? Go vegan.
Want to feed the hungry? Go vegan.
Want to save water? Go vegan.
Want to cut air and water pollution? Go vegan.
Want to slow global warming? Go vegan.
Want to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, obesity, and cancer? Go vegan.
There is no absolutely single personal change that the average person can make that has a better impact on the environment than going vegan.
~Dan Cudahy

Honey is not vegan. It is an animal product, it came from the inside of an animal that produced it, not for you to sweeten your tea, but for a baby bee to live and grow on. Using honey or products made with beeswax are not on the vegan menu.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

~Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

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 beauty and grace.

But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like 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

I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.~Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.~Leonardo Da Vinci

DO NOT BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!