A mother breast feeding her three year old son is apparently newsworthy, and people are quick to express their disgust. Perhaps it is a bit strange, but really—who gives a shit? What IS genuinely disturbing and downright vile is a grown adult consuming cow milk.
~ Holly Wilson (May 15, 2012)
Source: Holly’s Facebook comment
Today, think about the suffering and death you support just because you like the taste of dairy, cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream, etc. Think of what that means for cows, the gentle mothers whom we exploit. Ask yourself if it’s worth it. If your heart says “no,” go vegan.
~ Gary L. Francione (May 13, 2012)
Source: Some Thoughts for Mother’s Day 2012
Go vegan for all of the human and nonhuman mothers today. Human mothers are starving in obscene numbers due to the lack of food caused by animal agriculture. Over 70% of the world’s corn, wheat and soy are fed to animals, for human consumption. Nonhuman mothers are the most exploited in the meat, dairy and egg industries. Cows have their babies stolen away each year for your milk and cheese. Chickens have their male babies ground up alive for your eggs. It’s time to show respect to all mothers and go vegan.
~ Gary Smith (May 13, 2012)
Source: Gary’s Facebook comment
Despite our desperate attempt to remove ourselves from our non-human brethren, we are animals, and we have a lot more animal instincts than we like to admit. Every woman will tell you that her drive to protect her young—what we call maternal instinct—is pure and fierce and real. We even call it an instinct—the maternal instinct. Any right-minded person would agree that this instinct exists in ALL animals. If we know this to be true, then how can we so arrogantly deny animals their desire to fulfill that very basic, fierce, real, powerful instinct?
~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (July 31, 2007)
Source: Motherhood & Maternal Instincts
Wearing fox fur used to support a fox shooting and trapping industry here in Australia[,] rabbits as well.
Now [that] so called conservationists have stopped people wearing fur[,] foxes and rabbits have been able to breed and spread damaging native animals to the point of extinction.
People need to realize ethical hunting of feral animals is environmentally sound.
~ Doug Steley (May 12, 2012)
Source: Doug’s Facebook comment
Stop using mothers for your milk consumption. You kill their babies and contribute to their suffering every time you buy milk. Make the connection and STOP!
I know many of these mothers who live just down the street from me. I’ve gotten to meet them the day after they’re born, until about the time they’re killed less than 3 years later. NONE of them, whether babies or their moms, are HAPPY—AT ALL. It breaks my heart that I cannot ride in like a superhero and SAVE them ALL!!
~ Beth Hardesty (May 12, 2012)
Source: Beth’s Facebook comment
Isn’t it strange that we can see beef every single day, and yet it’s often situations like this, that allow us to connect our food with being an actual painful DEATH for someone.
If you wouldn’t want to walk up to this corpse and take a bite, then ask yourself, why do you order it at restaurants?
It may not seem like the same thing to you, but to the animal, it sure as hell is.
~ Shelley Williams (May 1, 2012)
Source: Shelley’s Facebook comment
Atheists do not believe in supreme beings commonly referred to as gods. Vegans do not believe other-than-human animals exist merely to serve human needs. That is, vegans believe nonhuman animals exist for the same reasons we do—their own.
Is there a common bond between atheism and veganism? I believe so and I suggest it is doubt. That is, in a society such as here in the USA where “more than 9 in 10 Americans continue to believe in God“, doubt is at the heart of what helps turn a believer or likely believer into a non-believer.
From my perspective, the same goes for veganism. In a world where other-than-humans are routinely thought of as things to be bought, sold, used, and possibly even killed for mostly trivial human needs, folks who think differently are a rarity. Once again, doubt, I believe, is key to acquiring this currently uncommon worldview.
The way I see it, being vegan simply means not thinking of others as commodities that can be bought or sold. That is, being vegan means saying No to slavery.
Think, then Go Vegan!
In this class Scott Ketterman, chef and owner of Crown Paella, and former chef at Simpatica Catering, will teach students how to turn a whole rabbit into porchetta and rillette. Each student will have the chance to debone a whole rabbit. They’ll then learn to turn the legs into sausage meat, which will be used to stuff the loins in preparation for porchetta. While the porchettas are poaching, students will learn how to transform rabbit into rillette, a French method that involves slow poaching rabbit meat in duck fat then emulsifying the tender meat and rich fat into a rough, spreadable, delicious paste. Students will get to taste all the results, and at the end of the class they’ll go home with recipes, their own porchetta, a jar of rabbit rillette, and a jar of rabbit stock.
~ Portland Meat Collective (March 2, 2012)
Source: Rabbit Two Ways