Nov 1, 2010
World Vegan Day
vegan (ˈviːɡən) – a person who refrains from using any animal product whatever for food, clothing, or any other purpose
World Vegan Day celebrates a healthy vegan lifestyle and the awareness and conscious effort to avoid animal suffering and wasteful use of the planet’s resources. In a nutshell, it simply takes each individual to be more considerate, to take consumerism with moderation and the world would have become a much more livable place. Its a honest look at what we consume and how we consume, to make sure we do not squander precious resources, to be more responsible to our environment and the ecosystem that binds us.
Going vegan is a personal choice. Consider the perspective that in the intake of foodstuffs, meat is dead foods, while vegetables are live foods.
In commemoration of World Vegan Day, with a bout of curiosity, I attended the Charity Movie Screening organised by ACRES and Petopia. The docu-movie: Earthlings
Make the Connection. EARTHLINGS.com
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~Paul McCartney
If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch. ~k.d. lang
Acknowledge the fact that animals are sentient beings. They see, feel, hurt, cry and are social beings. The documentary highlighted the role animals played in our society – pets, food, clothes, scientific testing.
Understandable that animals are reared for food. But is this brodingnagian demand for meat an excess? Or are we a society of emerging carnivores, preying not in moderation but in oversupply?
Detestable are incidences that benign animals are tortured and murdered for entertain is unacceptable.
Dolphin Massacre at Taiji. 52 Bottlenose & 7 Risso Dolphins ruthlessly murdered as confirmed by Sea Shephard Conservation Society. (26 Nov 2010)
In this era where information is king, consumers are tyrants, we need to learn about the provenance of our products – how it was made, where it was grown and who was involved in getting it to the market.
There is no better time to find out than the present.
The only effort required, from each one of us is simply to re-evaluate our choices that affect our environment and to project that effect as a collective source of damage to the eco-system. If damage can be collective, so can measures taken to redeem it.
