Veg Inspiration, Saturday
Each and every one of us makes our world.
Question everything this
culture says, throw off the chains of harming and stealing from fish,
birds, and other mammals, and join the vegan celebration!
We will love this world and each other so deeply that we will all be transformed.
Veg Inspiration, Thursday
When we realize that we’ve all been given the gift of bodies that
require no nutrients we cannot get from plant sources, we can become,
ourselves, the change we want to see in the world. This is the heart
and soul of the vegan revolution of love, joy, and peace that is
beckoning and to which we are all called to contribute.
Veg Inspiration, Wednesday
If lab-grown “meat” becomes available, that will reduce our killing and
waste of resources. And it may help us move toward veganism, since our
meals will no longer require us to disconnect from the suffering we’re
causing animals.. However, there are countless ways we oppress and
abuse animals besides eating them, and if our culture doesn’t evolve to
the vegan ethic of compassion to all beings, and continues to use and
prey on animals, our technology will magnify our violence and we’ll do
the same to each other.
Veg Inspiration, Tuesday
Veganism is the essence of inclusiveness and nonviolence: seeing sacred beings when we see others, never reducing them to objects or commodities for our use. It is the ancient wisdom of the interconnectedness of the welfare of all, and is also the dawning mentality that is foundational to sustainability, freedom, and lasting peace. Our children’s world will be vegan, or the alternative is unpleasant to contemplate.
Veg Inspiration, Monday
Our meals and institutions reflect each other and reinforce the
delusion that we are violent and competitive by nature. Spiritual and
religious teachings say otherwise. The Bodhisattva ideal that Buddhists
emulate, for example, embodies the understanding that our true nature
is wisdom, loving-kindness and cooperativeness. Our greatest joy comes
in helping others and blessing them, and we hurt ourselves the most
when we harm others for our own gain.
Veg Inspiration, Sunday
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“When we turn to the protection of animals, we sometimes hear it said
that we ought to protect men first and animals afterwards. By condoning
cruelty to animals, we perpetuate the very spirit which condones
cruelty to men.” – Henry Salt
Veg Inspiration, Saturday
Our cultural predicament—the array of seemingly intractable
problems that beset us, such as chronic war, terrorism, genocide,
starvation, the proliferation of disease, environmental degradation,
species extinction, animal abuse, consumerism, drug addiction,
alienation, stress, racism, oppression of women, child abuse, corporate
exploitation, materialism, poverty, injustice, and social malaise—is
rooted in an essential cause that is so obvious that it has managed to
remain almost completely overlooked.
Veg Inspiration, Friday
The pollution of our shared consciousness-field by the dark agonies
endured by billions of animals killed for food is an unrecognized fact
that impedes our social progress and contributes gigantically to human
violence and the warfare that is constantly erupting around the world.
Veg Inspiration, Thursday
“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy
untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive
them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.” – Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Veg Inspiration, Wednesday
With awareness, our behavior naturally changes, and individual changes
in behavior, rippling through the web of relationships, can lead to
social transformation and bring new dimensions of freedom, joy, and
creativity to everyone. It all begins with our most intimate and
far-reaching connection with the natural order, our most primary
spiritual symbol, and our most fundamental social ritual: eating.
