...this recent (March, 2010) interview of Ellen DeGeneres by Katie Couric touched on the question of why vegan? The video came to my attention because I saw it over at We're All Animals . I think it is a good one for as many folks as possible to watch because Ellen DeGeneres is articulate and clear in her presentation of the experiences and thinking that led her to choose a vegan approach to living.
In the interview she references a documentary called Earthlings. You can watch the complete film online.
If you haven't seen it, do so, especially if you are not living the vegan lifestyle.....simply because you want to know what you are doing to sentient beings, the environment and the earth.....you do want to know, don't you? Or maybe you think ignorance (deliberate and willful) absolves you of responsibility. Does it? Hmmm.....
Showing posts with label Earthlings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earthlings. Show all posts
Monday, December 27, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Hope for the future......
I was led to this young woman's You Tube channel by a posting on the Animal Liberation blog. I then watched a video she had made and it is presented below. She makes reference in her talk to the documentary Earthlings, which can be seen online for free.
The documentary is a powerful exposition about the havoc we are wreaking on the natural animals and on the planet.
And, I found the video from the young woman to be compelling and poignant. Watching her evoked in me a terrible sense of sadness and loss about the kind of devastation that we older generations have and are inflicting on sentient beings and the planet and that this is our legacy to this young woman and her cohorts. We owe the young ones (all the young animals) a better world than we have managed to shape.
The video is simply her talking about seeing behind the lies we pretend are true and how her trying to tell others about this meets with resistance and rejection. She has a terrific Aussie accent and expresses herself very well. Take a look and listen see what you think.
The documentary is a powerful exposition about the havoc we are wreaking on the natural animals and on the planet.
And, I found the video from the young woman to be compelling and poignant. Watching her evoked in me a terrible sense of sadness and loss about the kind of devastation that we older generations have and are inflicting on sentient beings and the planet and that this is our legacy to this young woman and her cohorts. We owe the young ones (all the young animals) a better world than we have managed to shape.
The video is simply her talking about seeing behind the lies we pretend are true and how her trying to tell others about this meets with resistance and rejection. She has a terrific Aussie accent and expresses herself very well. Take a look and listen see what you think.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
The Oklahoma Connection
The post on July 22, 2010 mentioned an Oklahoma connection associated with the beagle rescue. In addition to the beagles, 55 macaque monkeys were taken from the animal exploiting laboratory. A primate rescue/shelter here in central Oklahoma, Mindy's Memory, has become the home for 8 of the rescued animals. You can follow their progress by visiting the Mindy's Memory website.
Earlier this month, Heartland Rabbit Rescue had some visitors from Austin. The photograph of the visitors shows them with the resident Rabbit Rescue pony, Midnight. There are several hooved folks that live there, including 2 donkeys (Judy and Molly).
The girls (Judy and Molly) are very diligent in sounding the alarm if marauding dogs or coyotes approach their home although their skills at detecting hungry hawks still need development.
Below is a photograph showing a young visitor from Norman along with Molly and Judy.
Christina, over at the Rabid Tidbits blog has posted some current photographs of the baby bunnies recently born at Heartland Rabbit Rescue. It is astonishing how fast they are growing.
Most of us who live in cities are rather limited in the variation of animal species that we have the opportunity to interact with. One of the many benefits of volunteering at a sanctuary or rescue facility is the chance to get to know different kinds of animal folks and different individuals. Each rabbit is unique with her or his own likes and dislikes, behaviors and moods. Just as is each donkey, each pony, each dog, cat or human. We humans tend to lump other species all together and presume that we then know about them. This is no more true for human animals than it is for rabbit animals (or others).
Volunteering, especially for young humans, offers them the opportunity to become more sophisticated in their knowledge about the other Earthlings they share this planet with. Once you become friends with a living being, it becomes more problematic to then see that being (or others like her or him) as a "thing" to be exploited or abused or killed. For most of us, anyway.....there are exceptions.
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| Midnight is the individual wearing black. |
The girls (Judy and Molly) are very diligent in sounding the alarm if marauding dogs or coyotes approach their home although their skills at detecting hungry hawks still need development.
Below is a photograph showing a young visitor from Norman along with Molly and Judy.
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| Molly has a white forehead, Judy has a gray forehead and the visitor wears a red football shirt. |
Christina, over at the Rabid Tidbits blog has posted some current photographs of the baby bunnies recently born at Heartland Rabbit Rescue. It is astonishing how fast they are growing.
Most of us who live in cities are rather limited in the variation of animal species that we have the opportunity to interact with. One of the many benefits of volunteering at a sanctuary or rescue facility is the chance to get to know different kinds of animal folks and different individuals. Each rabbit is unique with her or his own likes and dislikes, behaviors and moods. Just as is each donkey, each pony, each dog, cat or human. We humans tend to lump other species all together and presume that we then know about them. This is no more true for human animals than it is for rabbit animals (or others).
Volunteering, especially for young humans, offers them the opportunity to become more sophisticated in their knowledge about the other Earthlings they share this planet with. Once you become friends with a living being, it becomes more problematic to then see that being (or others like her or him) as a "thing" to be exploited or abused or killed. For most of us, anyway.....there are exceptions.
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