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A Love of People, Nature, Animals. Of Gentleness and Goodness: A Poem for Animal Lovers

September 20th, 2012

pic of Jenny Brown, founder of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary founder, from Our Hen House (a great website)

Hello everyone,

Today I was getting some food around my kitchen, when I suddenly thought of this poem. When I googled it I found it’s actually only a fragment of a poem, but it reminded me of all the people who comment on my blog and the vegan companies who have reached out to me and all the vegetarians and vegans out there who might feel, with me, that this poem describes a kind of secret quality in them. Thought I would share! It is from this poem by William Carlos Williams:

It was the love of love,
		the love that swallows up all else,
				a grateful love,
a love of nature, of people,
		of animals,
				a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
		that moved me
				and that I saw in you.

The love of nature, people and animals. Of gentleness and goodness.

Do you know what I mean? I see this as a trait shared by animal lovers. I hope some one recognizes it in me. I recognize it in y’all, you animal lovers, you!!!!

Isn’t it a beautiful poem?

pic from this article about a woman who provides a home for abused and neglected pigs.

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PETA’s Shock Tactics and Some Fun Pics of Scandolous Vegans

September 11th, 2012

Hi guys,

What do you all think about PETA?

I think they are great. I love their attention getting ploys. I find them hilarious and truly attention getting, which is the point. I love that they care enough to do what it takes to expose people in the street to vegetarianism and veganism. They shock people out of their complacency, similar, in fact, to Socrates of ye olde Ancient Greece.

They called Socrates “the Gadfly” because he was constantly, annoyingly, stinging people out of their old ways of thinking and routines and forcing them, with his intrusive questions as they tried to go about their business in the agora, to stop and think about how they were living their lives.

He eventually was put on trial and put to death for this, because people hated to be stopped to think. They wanted to go about their lives, eating bacon, eating Christmas ham, Thanksgiving turkey, the Pesach Lamb, Mcdonalds, KFC , wearing their fabulous fur and awesome leather boots, carrying their designer handbags, and eating their boneless chicken breast and the like.

Indeed! Peta is the gadfly of the animal rights world.

I love looking at their campaigns in which they employ attractive women to stop men in their tracks and get them thinking about vegetarianism.

Peta made this statement when they launched a XXX website this June about their unusual methods:

PETA’s mission is to put an end to animal suffering, and we use every available opportunity to spread this message we always have, and we always will. Unfortunately, this is not always an easy task. Unlike our opposition, which is mostly made up of wealthy industries and corporations, PETA must rely on getting free “advertising” through media coverage.

It’s a safe bet that many visitors to PETA.xxx didn’t set out to learn about how animals are mercilessly slaughtered on today’s factory farms; understandably, such topics are convenient to ignore. That’s why PETA must make our message impossible to forget—and launching a website with a .xxx domain name is one way that we can achieve that goal.

Brilliant.

But I know a lot of animal lovers who hate their methods… Your thoughts?

Whilst looking for pictures of their campaigns online, I saw they had a girl on girl world tour in which two girls in valentine’s day bikinis lay on a bed kissing and scandalizing the neighborhood. HA!

And now,

Enjoy or perhaps be annoyed by, some pictures of some memorable PETA campaigns below:

Costume win!

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