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Chloé Berman commented on Why are you a vegan? on March 10, 2008, 2:28 PM

Sharon Gannon is a magical truth teacher.. listen to her and take in her brilliance. Some words from other truth spillers;WORDS TO LIVE BY:"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." --Elie Wiesel"The victim feels the suffering in his own mind and body, whereas the victimizer ... can be quite unaware of that suffering. The sword does not feel the pain that it inflicts." -- Philip Hallie, From Cruelty to Goodness %u201CPeople often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. %u201C-- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) %u201CWe are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?%u201D -- George Bernard Shaw (Living Graves, published 1951) %u201CA man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.%u201D -- George Bernard Shaw%u201CTo my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.%u201D -- Mahatma Gandhi "Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. -- Leo Tolstoy %u201CTruly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.%u201D --- Leonardo da Vinci %u201CNothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.%u201D -- Albert Einstein%u201CBy insulting vegetarianism you are insulting you own divinity. Who are you worshipping?%u201D -- Rosa Ena%u201C"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras %u201CThe animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.%u201D-- Alice Walker

Chloé Berman commented on Why are you a vegan? on March 10, 2008, 10:28 AM

Sharon Gannon is a magical truth teacher.. listen to her and take in her brilliance. Some words from other truth spillers; WORDS TO LIVE BY: "Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." --Elie Wiesel "The victim feels the suffering in his own mind and body, whereas the victimizer ... can be quite unaware of that suffering. The sword does not feel the pain that it inflicts." -- Philip Hallie, From Cruelty to Goodness %u201CPeople often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. %u201C -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) %u201CWe are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?%u201D -- George Bernard Shaw (Living Graves, published 1951) %u201CA man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.%u201D -- George Bernard Shaw %u201CTo my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.%u201D -- Mahatma Gandhi "Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. -- Leo Tolstoy %u201CTruly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.%u201D --- Leonardo da Vinci %u201CNothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.%u201D -- Albert Einstein %u201CBy insulting vegetarianism you are insulting you own divinity. Who are you worshipping?%u201D -- Rosa Ena %u201C"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -- Pythagoras %u201CThe animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.%u201D -- Alice Walker