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| Please take a minute to visit the websites listed below and consider all your actions in just one day that involve animals. |
| Joy working the tables in New York City for Farm Sanctuary |
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"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more it is entitled to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Praise for Foie Gras Fortifies Its Critics
By JAKE MOONEY, New York Times
Published: March 4, 2007
SHOPPING at the Fairway Market on the Upper West Side can be nearly as overwhelming a literary experience as a gustatory one. In every corner of the store, which sits under a blue awning on Broadway and 74th Street, hang signs, densely worded and brimming with enthusiasm, extolling fresh herbs — “our little secret” — or olive oil, or clam chowder so good, as one sign implies, that you will want to consume it intravenously.
In recent weeks, though, the sign getting all the attention has been one that is absent, after being posted for only a few days in December. “Fairway is Foie Gras Central,” it read, going on to mock those who say the product, fattened duck liver, is produced inhumanely, and adding, “We know better.”
As it happened, the sign, which two Fairway representatives variously said was unauthorized and was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, coincided roughly with the arrival in New York of Farm Sanctuary, an animal protection group that established an office in the city late last year. Now the group is staging Sunday leafleting campaigns outside the Upper West Side Fairway and says it may hand out leaflets today at the Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn...
(To read the full story, click here...)
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"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat. And the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals the way we now look upon the murder of men."
- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
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SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW
by Galway Kinnell
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
as Saint Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
began remembering all down her thick length,
from the earthen snout all the way
through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail,
from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
down through the great broken heart
to the blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths
sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow. |
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If you want to find out more about how to oppose cruelty to animals, these sites are a good starting point :
Farm Sanctuary
www.farmsanctuary.org
Humane Farming Association
www.hfa.org
Tribe of Heart
www.tribeofheart.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
www.peta.org
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary provides care, rehabilitation, and shelter for neglected, abused and discarded farm animals. Our purpose is to promote farm animal welfare and educate the public about how animals are treated to become our food.
www.woodstockfas.org |
"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they need to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: Ecology, famine, cruelty "
- Sir Paul McCartney
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