To Love and To Lobsters: Happy Memorial Day
Had to share this even though Memorial Day is almost ever.
So I am a member of the Facebook group Reach4Raw. It is a really interesting group for people interested in raw food started by Cookie Taylor who is one of my fave youtubers. She is a very unique person trying to lose weight and become fitter so she can hike up to Everest Base Camp with her husband this fall, which is her ultimate dream. She documents her journey on youtube and she is a very interesting person and very inspirational in her mindset. Like she couldn’t leave the house for many years and had major anxiety attacks and felt she would never succeed at anything but cutting out all junk food and going mostly raw vegan changed her life and now she is setting and achieving her dreams. It’s cool.
Anyway, two awesome people Jordan V Mitnick and Cassie Butler posted this amazing memorial day post in the group and it just made me so happy on a deep level.
They wrote:
“How vegans spend Memorial Day! While the rest of the world is cooking and eating meat… we’re buying lobsters from the seafood counter and setting them free! Happy Memorial Day, everyone! “
— with Jordan V Mitnick and Cassie Butler at Nyack State Park
It reminds me of a quote I once read about Leonardo Da Vinci. He was said to buy birds in the marketplace and set them free while he walked along discussing philosophy with people. from wikipedia:
Vasari tells, as an instance of his love of animals, how when in Florence he passed places where birds were sold he would frequently take them from their cages with his own hand, and having paid the sellers the price that was asked would let them fly away in the air, thus giving them back their liberty.
Oh and in the comments Jordan and Cassie said they are getting married in 6 days. Congratulations to them!
To love and to freeing the lobsters!
And to the veterans and troops. Happy Memorial Day everyone. :)
Thanks for writing about us!
Thanks for letting me share your pics. This made my day! Best of luck to you two, happiest wishes for your marriage, too!! I hope one day I find a vegan person to marry who wants to spend holidays like this with me. <3 <3 <3