The featured image is of a jailed songbird from the mountain jungles of Cuba, I photographed during my recent setenta visit en La Habana, Coo~bah.
For all those who still believe the cultural/industrial model, that meat is necessary for humans to eat to obtain sufficient protein, Google the following: #1 ~ protein content of human breast milk, [1gm/100gm]; #2 ~ protein content of potato, [2gm/100gm]. “One cannot tell anyone anything unless they are ready to hear it.” Godbole to Aziz in: A Passage to India.
Do animals have rights?
In my travels, I recently met a woman who asked me a rhetorical question. “We love our dogs, but, we eat cows. Why did people become incensed at the shooting of Leo the lion?”
Indeed!
From the video below then:
“After accepting the Albert Schweitzer award at Last Chance for Animals’ 2017 Annual Gala, Philip Wollen delivered a phenomenal speech about the egregious treatment of animals and the destructive ramifications of their plight. The compassionate philanthropist described the impact that our food choices have on the lives of billions— human and nonhuman alike. Wollen left the audience in awe as he thoughtfully articulated the harrowing reality of this atrocity and effectively conveyed the power that each of us holds, to create meaningful change for animals.”
Here is a partial text I have copied from a little past midway of this acceptance speech.
Philip Wollan: The most beautiful word ever written in any country, in any language, at any time in human history came from India. In the Upanishads 3,000 years ago.
Ahimsa – Non-Violence to ALL living beings.
Not because it describes our nationality, our politics, our religion, our diet or our
lifestyle. But, because it describes our CHARACTER. It says; we reject violence wherever and whenever it occurs.
It is a revolutionary event more powerful than the Industrial Revolution, The
Reformation, the Hubble telescope, or anything conceived by Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Darwin or Freud.
Because it protects the most precious of all things . . . Life. Vegans and whole plant foodists {People in this room} are creating The New Enlightenment, The Second Renaissance.
Veganism is the Swiss Army Knife of the future. One instrument solves our ethical, economic, environmental, water, health problems – and ends animal cruelty forever.
Philip’s Wiki bio.
Until we who are aware and awake, realize that humans have appropriated all for themselves, leaving few, if any rights for animals, our world will become a worsening habitat for all. Today, I read the Trump administration has announced a position on protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years.
from “On Speaking Terms with Earth” Great Elm Press, 1988
An old book says that Adam named them before
he was cast out, that Noah herded them
into the God-driven ark so they might live.
We ate no flesh in Eden, but afterwards,
when things got hard, we forgot
the peaceful kinship of that ancient kingdom.
As our teeth sank into their flesh
we had to deny them. So we said
they had no souls, no reason, no thumbs,
no speech. We were so different. We made
a chain of things to protect us–fire, medicine,
our locking houses, many kinds of clothes.
And we renamed them–farm product, fur crop,
renewable resource. Pray that we will see
their faces again in the mirror of creation,
the miracle of animals, their clear eyes
meaning more than profit to our own.
~Jean Pearson~
I shall end this brief post with a statement from Father Thomas Berry;
“Nothing is itself without everything else.”
Thanks for reading and viewing. Please share this widely. Go vegan.
I AM John Gabriel Ötvös aka jayöh.