tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80631206095899389702024-03-13T07:07:21.466-07:00To IndiaEsther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-89480790810201023132018-06-05T16:34:00.002-07:002018-06-05T16:34:19.565-07:00Update !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello Everyone!<br />
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Wow so much has happened this year, and I would love to catch you up on everything!<br />
I lost access to this account for a period of time, but luckily I'm back.<br />
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I have been dealing with some health challenges that I wrote about on my new website:<br />
https://www.plantbasedparadise.org/single-post/2018/06/05/My-Latest-Health-Story<br />
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But I have a lot of cool projects I am working on, and I will be sharing about them soon!<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-65248854063222511432017-05-06T09:38:00.002-07:002017-05-06T09:38:58.084-07:00Adventures and The Tree of Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've arrived back to Utah. After a long journey in Brazil. I was there for 7 months, exploring different possibilities. Friends and I were looking at lands to purchase in order to create possibly a retreat center-- where we would create our own essential oils, medicinals and food, a place for healing and reconnecting. I met many who were interested in a more sustainable lifestyle and at different stages of creating this a reality. Ultimately I ran into visa issues and decided to come back home.<br />
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I was hired on to the Tree of Life as a vegan chef instructor. I was feeling so excited and optimistic about the opportunity to work for a retreat center that has been functioning for so many years, I felt I had a lot to learn, especially if one day I wanted to start my own.<br />
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However, shortly after arriving, things weren't jiving as well as I thought. There were some misunderstandings about my living accommodations and travel accommodations. Which required some last minute figuring out. I also walked into some heavy drama as I entered the dorms. Basically some severely unhappy paying customers. Added to my own issues with checking in and understanding the situation, I was about to turn around and go home.<br />
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Obviously I didn't want to give up so quickly. I arrived on Saturday from Utah, a 15 hour drive. And I had come with all of my stuff, thinking I would be there for 1-2 years!<br />
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Monday was my first day of work. Which was okay, but I noticed that the day dragged on. Two hours felt like 8. This was not a good sign. I also realized that I don't work well with so many confinements, everything had to be done a certain way, walking around the table a certain way to pick up condiments, when setting things up, chopping, etc. This is also okay, whatever, something to get used to. Then major drama happened back in Utah, where I had to take the afternoon off to sort things out.<br />
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Tuesday rolled around. Again, similar patterns, also I enjoyed the food, but I could feel that I was missing carbs. At the Tree of Life, they get their calories primarily from nuts and seeds. This is okay, but by Monday I was having immense challenges with this, my stomach was severely upset, and by Tuesday I was hardly eating because I didn't want to be in pain all day, but I have a fast metabolism, and I get a little crazy if I don't eat. I also hadn't been sleeping well. On top of the energetic strictness and the hostility of the apprentices who paid 10,000 dollars... or at least some of them who were beyond unhappy with the program and taking it out on me. I really had nothing to do with any of it.. but it doesn't feel good to be walking into a space where many of the participants aren't thrilled about what they are doing. It means something is off. And if something is that off, that I can't even keep my own cool... then I am not adding to what they have.. I'm only spiraling down with it.<br />
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I was thankful that I was given some sweet potatoes but it took some haggling to get to that point, I was told to have more coconut oil and avocados.. which I felt was not helpful as I was not used to giving my body so much fat.<br />
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And ultimately, I'm not sure so much fat is really good for us???<br />
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I guess I didn't assume that everyone there gets most of their calories from fat, I had thought that the tree of life had more flexibility than that.<br />
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Between seriously unhappy participants taking it out on me, and learning more about some of the questionable things being done there.. I couldn't deal with this place anymore. I didn't need to be there, I could go back to Utah and sort things out. I told another apprentice who noticed I was a bit off. Luck would have it, she was really helpful and offered me her car to go to town to get what I needed or to help me out anyway.<br />
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I took her car, and took the afternoon off to sort myself out.<br />
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The strangest thing was, as soon as I left the cafe, I felt my instability suddenly vanished. I felt fine. I also had a long meditation about going back home and creating a sustainable space in Utah.<br />
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So I decided to quit. I let everyone know. This was a bit crazy even for me, feeling I had just come, but I couldn't deny this immense buildup of ungroundedness, that only eased when accepting a different course for myself. Of course I have not mentioned everything that went wrong. I realize that this place has a large staff and they are doing their best to support everyone, but in this process the energy feels to be largely about making money. That much effort is done to get as much out of people as possible. I feel this is not fair. I also became aware of the excessive amounts of supplements that are subscribed in the name of 'depleted soils', one individual was prescribed 1000 dollars worth for 1 month only!!! It would be impossible to know the reactions of all of those supplements together, in addition to there are no regulations on supplements, in addition to the 'depleted' soils blanket theory is a load of crap. As a soil scientist, I have personally witnessed how varied all soils are, and even on the same property, there can sometimes be little consistency. However if the soils are taken care of, there will be no severe nutritional deficiencies in the foods. Yet at the tree of life, they did grow their sprouts and greens but nothing else. The way they talk about the place that it is some perfect all god and holy place and that Gabriel Cousens is enlightened. And if people leave from there, 'they just aren't ready yet'. I felt a lack of sincerity in some of the rituals to be honest. I felt a suppression of the feminine spirit there. Everything was severely hierarchical and male driven. I felt people were being taken advantage of, and the task was too big for me alone to try and reverse.<br />
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I feel bad giving such negative feedback on a place where I know they have done a lot of good in many ways. For how long it's been around is a show for that. For how many people they have been able to help with this model- escape some of the challenges in modern medicine. However I also have some major doubts about how they are doing this now. Their sevas are worked into the ground and are required to go to all of the 'spiritual' seminars in the evening.<br />
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Personally it feels almost like a level of 'spiritual' bullying. It's like spirituality being completely westernized -- by putting them into controlled boxes. This is not how we enjoy life, this in my opinion is not how we open up to our full potential. We open up by giving ourselves rest in a chaotic world, by allowing people to connect with their own inner truths and hearts, and allowing them to come into themselves. By allowing more chances for people to share and bring their gifts.<br />
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Sure staying in a place like this will probably make people wake up, by waking up to how miserable life can be in a place so controlled. The people who are leaving are typically the ones bursting at the seams to get out.<br />
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And in some ways it's perfect like that, because if this was a perfect place, no one would ever want to leave, and the whole point of this place is that they want people to leave so that we will have 'awake' people everywhere. So in this goal, they succeeded. I definitely wanted out as soon as I came. I realized that what I know about nutrition is quite a lot, I already know how to heal with nutrition and actually I think modest to low levels of fat and maybe none in some cases is best. I believe in cooked foods (especially if produced on site or locally), in some ways I feel it's a bit more sustainable than shipping fresh foods long distances. I believe in minimal supplementation -- Vitamin B12, maybe vit D, but our bodies are beautiful and everything can be gotten from the earth! I don't really believe in massive supplementation. Ask some of the longest living people what helped them live long... you know what it is?? Usually happiness! Sure eating more veggies certainly helps, but people who live long generally have a good outlook on life.<br />
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Controlling life, controlling what we eat... can make us miserable, contracting our spirits. We need freedom, we need heart living.<br />
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I must say I did meet a lot of incredible people there, I managed to borrow a car from one apprentice to drive all the way home. I also managed to become really good friends with another and perhaps we will be doing some EM work together, which has massive potential for cleaning water and soils.<br />
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And now I am back in Utah, and starting up my families garden-- permaculture style :) actually maybe Esther style. Since my practices at this point are a healthy combination of many different things I have learned along the way. I won't be tilling but digging holes and planting individually, I'm not sure let's see how it goes, I bought loads of seeds the other day.<br />
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And since last year my car was totaled, I'll be learning to get around by bicycle here shortly. I live 30 minutes from town by car!! So it's a bit of a distance, but It's important, I want to become more and more earth friendly.<br />
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I've also been putting together curriculum for meditation retreats.<br />
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I've gotten into something called orchid essences, which use the energy from flowers for a variety of spiritual symptoms. I would like to work this into the meditation, have lots of time in nature and have the most amazing organic fresh food available, in addition to yoga. So I will be organizing my first one here shortly perhaps next month.<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-63016577102930832052017-01-04T15:00:00.000-08:002017-01-04T15:00:12.027-08:00Reducing waste<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Happy New Year! Feliz novo ano! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm mostly posting on my To Brazil blog, however few posts will still make it to this page when they feel relevant enough of the general theme of a more sustainable life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s the start of a new world. A new life. I feel motivated and inspired to really change my life. </span></div>
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My biggest dream in the world is to see a more sustainable planet. And in order to do that, I realize that it has to start within. Yes I'm still working on sustainable projects here in Brazil, very initial stages and I'll be elaborating more on them with time. For now I'll keep you up to date with my progress in becoming waste free and more sustainable. </div>
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For the last few months, I've been really thinking a lot about it, but in the last week I've been making progress with daily sustainable goal setting, which has been amazing. </div>
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I've also garnered a lot of inspiration from the book "Big Magic" by Elizabeth Gilbert. </div>
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Basically just putting 100% into your passions and not expecting anything in return, because you love them. And not getting pulled down when things don't always go your way, because that is also life, and what matters is your dedication and nothing else. Your passion also doesn't owe you anything, it doesn't owe you rewards of any kind, monetary, success or anything, it's there to just be there, so we can enjoy this experience on earth, knowing that we lived it with full heart. </div>
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I've started creating goals for myself every evening for the following day, of course I've been learning portuguese so they have involved that, they have involved step by step processes of starting my personal projects and carrying them through, also involving personal health -- so whether it's healthy food prep or exercise, meditation and then also daily journaling at the end of the day to track my progress and prepare for the next day. This has really fueled my motivation in a beautiful way, helping me keep on track with my work and my goals. </div>
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In the past few months, I have stopped using shampoo from plastic containers -- I use bar soap now for everything. I have started making my own toothpaste -- my latest recipe is 1/4 cup of coconut oil 10 drops of organic mint oil, 3 drops of tea tree oil and 2-3 tbsp of baking soda. It seems to work great. However I think for best results also couple it with oil pulling and flossing using -- smartfloss -- I use smartfloss because it is amazing and can absorb essential oils. I realize smartfloss comes in a plastic container but one of my goals is to contact the company if they can sell the product with the plastic/ create a petition for them to sell the product without the plastic container-- or some kind of recycling/reusing program for the container. </div>
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In the past few days, I've also started using water instead of toilet paper. This is no big deal for many other countries, in particular india where I've spent a significant amount of time, yet for other countries, this is unfortunately a new and bizarre concept, with bathrooms not set up for using water. So I bring with me a small bag with a small bottle of water and cloth so I can be prepared, the water for the washing and the cloth for drying. As I write this, I realize that this makes it much easier for women in the west to go toilet paper free as they often carry bags that can accommodate this, for men perhaps its more difficult. But a good start is start in the home. When traveling people usually have to bring some sort of back bag or bag anyway, even men. So anyway. All is possible! Lets save our trees!! </div>
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The other thing is, I travel a lot. I'm not even sure what I can call my home and what isn't anymore.. because wherever I am has suddenly become home.. because I feel like a total vagabond. But anyway. Previously I would only compost in compost friendly homes. Yet now, I am finding ways to compost in homes that aren't set up for it. I recently stayed in an apartment where there were only potted plants. So what I did was make a veggie scrap smoothie and poured it onto the plants -- in particular the plants that were having pest issues. Who knows maybe it can help :) This way the scraps break down much easier and assimilate into soil faster. Helping the plant. </div>
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I've also started to reconsider while shopping and avoiding things that come in plastic, this has meant that sometimes I buy conventional foods over organic foods because they don't come in plastic. However this is a lose lose situation. My heart can't figure out what is better.. conventional foods with agrotoxins.. or organic foods wrapped in material that doesn't decompose. Eeek. Best is to grow my own food... or work harder seeking out organic plastic free foods. Unfortunately I have yet to find in Brazil organic plastic free grains, nuts, seeds, dried fruits.. etc. I will have to meet farmers and see what is possible. I have a friend starting a company where he will sell organic produce straight to consumers.. I feel there is an opportunity here, to sell bulk organic foods... but time will tell. Else some kind of movement, petitions, contacting farmers.. may also work. </div>
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Also, a huge part of waste free living in my opinion is reducing our ecological footprint overall. Plant based eating/ eating more plants can help with this. Check out my other blog here, for recipes and ideas :) <a href="http://theveganfooddiary.blogspot.com.br/">http://theveganfooddiary.blogspot.com.br/</a></div>
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-60821603073782725582016-09-27T14:23:00.004-07:002016-09-27T14:23:52.611-07:00To Brazil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've recently started a new blog, documenting my new journey in Brazil. Working with the forests and the environment....<br />
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<a href="http://protectingforests.blogspot.com.br/">http://protectingforests.blogspot.com.br/</a></div>
Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-639338466124388972016-04-03T21:41:00.000-07:002016-04-03T21:43:35.003-07:00Permaculture/sustainable/organic demo site Maharashtra <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Recently I was contacted by someone who is interested in creating a 5 acre demo site for his village.<br />
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It's about 7 plots, that he would like to convert to include the following:<br />
Food forest, kitchen garden and sustainable/organic demo plots of the kinds of crops other farmers in his village grow.<br />
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Arriving at the land, which is about a 3-4 hour drive depending on road conditions, one can immediately notice the dry state the soil and land is in.<br />
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They haven't had a decent monsoon season in over 2 years.<br />
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However, the land itself is beautiful with distant hills surrounding the area.<br />
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It's the midst of summer here in Maharashtra so the heat of course was obvious and was needed in large amounts.<br />
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I was shown an example kitchen garden which had some castor plants, and few other herbs, but overall the quality and vitality of the plants were less, this ultimately seemed to be an issue of water availability.<br />
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All farmers in this village use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, although a few farmers are progressive in the sense of trying new techniques on their crops to see if the use of the chemicals could possibly be mitigated.<br />
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One farmer we visited, used a netting over his crops to help keep the insects out. He saved a significant amount of money in the process of using this net. However, he will need to remove the net in order to allow for the pollination of the crops. And at this time he mentioned he may also need to use a little bit of pesticides.<br />
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In my mind water retention is the main priority, followed by improving the soil quality.<br />
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They mentioned that there is a free soil testing service provided by the government, called KVK. According to their website they test, pH, electric conductivity, organic carbon, available nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, exchangeable sodium, calcium and magnesium.<br />
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This would of course be a good place to start for many of these farmers who have never taken a soil test. As manure and urea is often a main source of fertilizer, tests are needed to ensure that the balance of nutrients are in order.<br />
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Unfortunately in this region, farmers have been taken advantage of in the past in terms of products. They mentioned a story that someone had spent 80,000 rupees for someone to manage their fields organically for 1 year. And the result was that the produce did not fair well.<br />
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Anyone should be very skeptical of those who say you can become organic in 1 year, especially after years of chemical use on soils. Generally it may take about 3 years to switch to organic practices while maintaining productivity, and another 3 years of being organic in order to be called organic. In total it's more of a 6 year process. Sure anyone can go organic overnight, but that doesn't mean that it will be financially viable for the farmer. It could take him another 3 years of organic in order for that crop to show any positive change, and for someone who lives off of the income from a farm, it's not a solution in becoming organic.<br />
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On our way back to Pune we spotted this guy::<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-57264414073793207422016-02-09T10:33:00.001-08:002016-02-09T10:33:22.098-08:00Saving the rainforest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I've recently been in touch with a vegan agroforestry expert in Brazil. He trains farmers in sustainable methods of rejuvenating forests and growing products that are both profitable and compatible with the ecosystem and the forest. His goal is to buy a piece of property about 100 possibly more acres, which is relatively affordable in the location he is at, to start a farmers training center. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">This is crucial for South America as many farmers are in fact dairy and cattle farmers that are ruining the environment and the soil. His wisdom and his trainings help enable Vegan farmers who essentially promote and protect the rainforest. I'm in contact currently with someone in California about visiting his land next year to hopefully put together more information about his land, the farmers and the products. I wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone else might be interested in a project like this, feel free to email me (esther.shanti1@gmail.com). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Skills that could be very useful to this project:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Passion for the issue</span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Herbalism</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Portuguese and or Spanish</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Familiarity with</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"> </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">South America/Brazil, avenues to sell valuable medicinals/ tropical goods</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Experience in media relations, film, editing, marketing and fundraising. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Goods that are for sale by the ton:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><b>PEACH PALM</b></span></span><br />
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considered so valuable because it provides a storehouse of energy, which can
replace common culinary staples that provide carbohydrates, like potatoes. In
fact, the consistency and texture of cooked peach palm is similar to a sweet
potato. <a href="http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/B10186.pdf"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">Peach palm</span></a> is usually not eaten raw, as
it has a rather strong, acidic taste, but when cooked, it can be dried into
meal or flour to be used at a later time. The raw fruit does not stay ripe for
very long, and should be eaten or cooked soon after being picked. Economically,
it is important both as an export crop, but also because it can replace some of
the other overexploited species of exotic fruits that have received global
attention in recent years, such as acai. The rich combination of nutrients in
peach palm makes it very beneficial for our health in a variety of ways.</span><!--EndFragment-->
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Besides being a delicious addition to a fruit
basket, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1161030101001423"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">peach palms</span></a> are also packed with
vitamins, minerals, and organic compounds that make it an ideal component of a
healthy diet. Peach palms contain significant levels of fiber, carbohydrates,
vitamin C, E, A, B, and K, as well as potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium,
phosphorous, and zinc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Energy Booster:</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> Peach palm is perhaps best known
for acting as an energy reserve. This energy-boosting fruit packs a whopping 37
grams of carbohydrates in every 100 grams. <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02858977#page-1"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">Carbohydrates</span><span style="color: #6a9a1f; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></a>are the building
blocks of our energy supply, and by breaking down these carbohydrates, our body
is able to refuel itself very quickly. For this very reason, peach palm is
often turned to as a quick energy booster in South American countries, and this
very effective carb-loading tool is becoming more popular in other countries as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Digestive Health:</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> As with most fruits and
vegetables, peach palm is a very good source of <a href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1653/0015-4040%282002%29085%5B0426:PMTOTW%5D2.0.CO;2"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">dietary fiber</span></a>, which impacts our body in a
number of ways. When it comes to digestion, fiber facilitates the smooth
digestion of food and eliminates constipation. It can reduce excess gas and
bloating as well, while also helping to prevent more serious gastrointestinal
conditions, like gastric ulcers and colon cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Heart Health and Diabetes:</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> Fiber continues to serve the body
in terms of diabetes, as it can help to regulate the insulin and glucose
production activities by affecting those levels in the bloodstream. By slowing
down the release of glucose into the bloodstream and optimizing the functions
of the pancreas, peach palm’s fiber can help to reduce the effects of diabetes,
or prevent it from developing in the first place. When it comes to<a href="http://ejfa.info/index.php/ejfa/article/viewArticle/10006"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">heart health</span></a>, fiber clears out excess
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Vision Health:</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> One of the most important
vitamins found in peach palm is <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963996911001475"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">vitamin A,</span></a> as well as other carotenoids
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act as antioxidants to reduce or eliminate cataracts, while also preventing
macular degeneration in the ocular cells.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;">Skin Protection:</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"> When it comes to keeping our
body’s largest organ protected, <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271531705806943"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">vitamin C, vitamin A</span></a>, and a healthy fluid
balance in the body can be very effective. Peach palm possesses both of those
antioxidant vitamins that can stimulate the regrowth of new skin cells and
protect the ones that are there, while the potassium levels in peach palm
ensure a proper water balance in the body and facilitate the exchange of fluid
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<b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Growth and Development:</span></span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Peach palm is especially
recommended for children, as it is ideal for <a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02859117#page-1"><span style="color: #6a9a1f;">spurring proper growth and development</span></a>. Aside
from its balanced composition of vitamins and minerals, peach palm also has
proteins and other organic compounds that are essential for growth.
Furthermore, for pregnant mothers, the folic acid levels in peach palm make it
great for protecting against neural tube defects."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; line-height: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/peach-palm.html">https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/fruit/peach-palm.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PT" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Protium
heptaphyllum</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">It is extracted an oil and amorphous resin, the general
applications ranging from the manufacture of varnishes and paints, to have
light yellow color and be solidifying in contact with air; the caulking boats
to cosmetics and insect repellents. On the therapeutic side, the species
presents as an expectorant and wound healing, as well as anti-inflammatory and
antimicrobial actions. In folk medicine, this resin oil plant gums are used for
various purposes such as, for example, stimulating, antiulcer and
antiinflammatory. In religious rituals, it is used as incense to have such
aromatic resin.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Source: </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protium_heptaphyllum">https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protium_heptaphyllum</a></span></div>
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<b>BARU</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> "</o:p>The taste of almond baru, like the peanut, leads the
region's population to attribute aphrodisiac properties: it is said that at the
time of baru, increases the number of women who become pregnant. What we do
know is that baru has a high nutritional value. The chestnut has around 23%
protein, higher value than the brown-of-cashew and Brazil nuts-and-stop.</div>
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The seed can be stored in a burlap sack, indoors, for a
period of one year, without any damage to the quality of the kernel. Out of
coconut, almonds can also be stored for the same period, provided they are
stored in plastic bags in the freezer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The preparation of almonds for consumption is simple. After
drawn from the pulp, just toast. They can be eaten alone or used in the
preparation of foot-brittle, brown sugar and peanut candy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The oil extracted from the almond is of excellent quality,
and is often used by local people as a flavoring for tobacco and as
antirheumatic. Despite all its qualities, the baru is not yet commercialized,
being very rare to find it in the cities of Southeast fairs. It is common,
however, in free-trade and health food stores in Goiás and the Federal
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Also known as <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguardente" title="Aguardente"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">aguardente</span></a></i>, <i>pinga de tuto</i>, <i>caninha</i></span><sup><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacha%C3%A7a#cite_note-Oxford-1"><span style="color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[1]</span></a></span></sup><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_318707786"><br /></a></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rain-tree.com/guarana.htm#.VrotqJMrKRs">http://www.rain-tree.com/guarana.htm#.VrotqJMrKRs</a></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.5pt;">Andiroba:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">"Andiroba oil is an anti-inflammatory oil rich in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart.php?prop_ID=97"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">omega-3 fatty acids<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></a>that promote skin healing from cuts and may slow the growth of skin cells in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy_psoriasis.php"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">psoriasis</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and age spots. It promotes normal circulation to the skin and relieves pain and swelling. Andiroba oil is used in heated massage to relieve<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy_arthritis.php"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">arthritis</span></a>.,<sup>1</sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt;">The Northwest Amazons use the bark and leaves for fever-reducing and worm-inhibiting tea, and externally as a wash for skin problems, ulcers, and insect bites, and as an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/chart_remedy_insect_repellent.php"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">insect repellent</span></a>.<sup>2"-</sup></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18pt; text-indent: 12pt;"><sup>- </sup><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 24px; text-indent: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail413.php">http://www.anniesremedy.com/herb_detail413.php</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">Bell, Stacey; Balch, CNC, Phyllis A. (2012-04-03). Prescription for Herbal Healing, 2nd Edition: An Easy-to-Use A-to-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies (p. 22). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt;">2 Andiroba oil may accelerate healing of skin damage by providing myristic acid, one of the chemical building blocks of an enzyme that links together the proteins that form the skin�s protective outer layer. One of the fatty acids found in andiroba oil, linolenic acid, was shown in a laboratory study to slow the growth of skin cells in psoriasis and age spots.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><b>COPAIBO:</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Main Actions</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Standard Dosage</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>relieves pain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>increases urination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reduces inflammation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>expels worms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Internal:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 5-15
drops 2-3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kills germs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reduces acid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> times daily<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kills bacteria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>supresses coughs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
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diluted resin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kills fungi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>expels phlegm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on affected areas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inhibits tumor growth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dries secretions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heals wounds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>protects gastric tract<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mildly laxative<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sooths and softens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background: white; padding: 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt 1.0pt;">
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">·</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>disinfects<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-12839490033911436562016-02-06T10:18:00.000-08:002016-02-06T10:18:24.121-08:00Our obsession with STUFF aka dead abundance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently wrote this post in response to a friend who posted basically an apology for a reflection he had made after attending a friend's wedding. He was expressing sadness over so much resources being used in this way. It was on facebook and soon after he realized how this perhaps was poor timing and his intention wasn't to put water on the high spirits of those who so graciously welcomed him to join in the celebration.<br />
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Many people commented on this post, pointing out the graciousness of his humility in acknowledging this. Others started talking about how spending a lot on weddings is only a good thing, items are meant to be used, and the more they are used the more it provides for people's livelihoods and the better our lives are.<br />
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I couldn't hold back, I wrote this....<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">I respect you a lot. As many others have said it takes a lot of humility to reflect on an open forum. And surely it's been appreciated by those who could have been hurt from the previous post. That said, I think it's such a crucial conversation, that needs to be had. I definitely find myself in this trap of wanting to be a 'liked' person and not ruffling feathers, or making people uncomfortable. Largely I do my best to be this kind of a person. But I don't always succeed. In person I'm much more reserved and for whatever reason, talking about important issues online I am never able to hold myself back from how I truly feel. Perhaps I feel safe, behind my computer screen. I don't see the faces of detest or the emotions of judgment for my strong ethical stances. And in no way am I perfect. The worst is that I see how entrapped I am in the system and how torn I feel about it. I have family spread out on three continents, in various cities. Although I hardly own anything apart from a computer (which I often feel guilty about, but is a much needed tool for being in school unfortunately) and a blender and a few pieces of paper from school, I travel a lot. And traveling seems to speak to some part of my soul. At the same time, there is immense guilt for the use of resources that takes. The destruction of so much beauty in our world due to our unregulated use of fossil fuels and other products. I also have dreams of one day settling in a place made of natural materials -- clay or earth, or even learning to be so at peace with myself and with nature to live in Nature not needing anything.. as we once did so long ago and as many native human communities do in many parts of the world- although their voices, lives and cultures are getting squashed out as our industrialized privilege and ways are interfering with their water, food and lands. Now entire communities are either forced to relocate due to loggers forcing them out even brutally murdering them for their lands, or global warming raising the waters- drowning them out, or the climate changing and drying up their crops or their water sources or completely polluted land from our effluent. A mine polluted an entire river in Brazil. Destroying the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen and others who depended on that river. The worst mine contamination ever. For what... for our need and use of technology, our need and use of gold. Think of all the things we use metal for? I'm very much stuck in this system of using, it's what I was brought up with. But I am also very passionate about doing whatever I can possibly do within my comfort and capacity to reduce and limit my use of these worldly possessions. And am doing my best to direct my life in a way that perhaps one day I can too live much more simply without so much waste being generated. It's interesting that we've come to a point where our value system is STUFF-- dead abundance. Instead of our value system being our home of living abundance, living trees, animals and rivers. I can't believe that it is just a difference of opinion or personality that separates me from you. I can't believe that it is merely a difference in personal preference that separates me from the world. I believe those who are benefiting the most from our economic model are driving us to believe that we CANNOT live without all of this STUFF --dead abundance. It's a lie. That we are unfortunately believing, and the driving forces want us to believe that its cool to use the most expensive and the MOST amount of dead abundance that we can for EVERY life event, for EVERY event, and for EVERY moment of our lives. But when will it be that we feel so much utter peace and respect for ourselves and the world that we can be happy in the simplicity of being among others, living abundance. Our family connections being ENOUGH, our living trees feeling like ABUNDANCE in our lives, and the happiness of others including ANIMALS as precious souls that we happen to share the planet with. HAPPINESS for living in their presence, happiness seeing them live naturally. As we once did. living off the abundance of the world, with no need for monetary exchange or richer or poorer. It's all a scam to keep us in the deteriorated attitude of lacking. That we are not enough, this is not enough and most of all LIFE is not enough unless it's dead, manipulated and being used by us in some function that only serves us temporarily while in the long term devastating wildlife and our natural world. I respect that yes, we need to respect each other, yes we need to be kind to each other. But there is nothing MORE important or MORE vital that needs discussion than this today. Not necessarily about weddings. But our use of dead abundance- STUFF.</span><div class="UFITranslatedText" style="border-left-color: rgb(220, 222, 227); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; margin-top: 2px; padding-left: 8px;">
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-48184814787001311672015-10-22T12:24:00.003-07:002015-10-22T12:24:50.572-07:00Starting to get excited<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm getting beyond excited about my journey beyond school.<br />
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When you work so hard for so long, to the point of exhaustion, burn out, dismay, and disbelief. It's rather a surreal experience to actually think of the possibility that there is life beyond this chapter.<br />
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My biggest task right now is to stay focused, to not get too excited, stay present. Because the more I can focus on school, the closer I will be to finishing. And finishing soon! I have roughly six weeks to get everything compiled to send out to my committee! I can't even believe it. It's completely unreal.<br />
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My journey after this, is unknown. But on the horizon are some prospectives:<br />
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Travel to Denver Colorado, a once dairy farmer is transitioning to a vegan lifestyle, and way of living. In the process, setting up a sanctuary for the animals. This can be a challenging process but absolutely possible with a management plan going ahead. I'm not sure if I can assist in this process, but we'll schedule a time this winter to take a look at the property, see what's locally being produced available, investigate high value crops that may do well in the area, and alternative business plans to help get the sanctuary on their feet in terms of obtaining funds necessary for the goals. I'm so excited about this, because it's definitely something I believe in, and with the amount of studying that I've done, I feel it's time to make good use of it! And of course all of this work would be pro bono. As long as I am able, contributing to these kinds of causes is, as far as I'm concerned, what I'm all about. They currently have a indiegogo page, it's called, 'Saving the Sanctuary, and Broken Shovels Farm'<br />
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I've been invited to Iran by a friend who is seeing the problems in Iran among farmers. Their cancer rates are sky high, and they don't get a lot of support with sustainable farming practices. This problem could potentially be multifold. Which likely it is. 1- Getting leftover pesticides and herbicides which are not allowed in other countries 2- Never being trained in the safety of using chemicals on fields 3- Not knowing about any alternatives. 4- Not acquiring adequate nutrition from diets, making diseases and cancer more susceptible to the population. 5- Pollution in the water, and in the soil, built up over time, exacerbating these issues. <br />
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There are some processes available to help buffer pollution in water and the soil, like growing specific organisms and plants to clear/filter the toxicity, funneling water through natural areas for filtration, but it's also possible that more complicated solutions may be needed. <br />
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Limiting dependence on agricultural chemicals, is definitely feasible with more sustainable farming techniques, teaching more appropriate handling methods of chemicals, and then of course eating a more nutrient dense diet, some of these things may be able to make a dramatic impact on the lives of these people affected by these circumstances.<br />
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Of course, whether I will be able to go, will be dependent on visa accessibility. Iranian and American relations aren't currently the best, however the more we can interact with each other in positive ways, perhaps the better for both countries. Breaking down these social barriers especially of images that media transmits that build animosity between people, isn't exactly a straightforward process, But it seems we need to try! Let's build a positive world culture, with helping hands at every turn. That's what I believe in anyway!!<br />
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3)There's also a friend in Peru, working with indigenous people, attempting to make a meaningful bridge and friendship between indigenous tribes and tourists. They are building a center there, in order to connect these people in a meaningful way. It's so inspiring to me because it's something the modern world is often so behind in, simple living, connecting with the earth. And it also gives a way for indigenous populations to interact in a way that is respectful to their tradition and their customs, while also gaining monetary support in this process allowing them more freedom as a people to their land and their rights. I would love to explore this relationship more fully, and have also been invited to take a look at their soil ;) see if anything can be improved on that front. <br />
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4) I would love to visit Sadhana Forest in Kenya, I know I've written a lot about their organization on my blog in the past, but with everyday the locals and the officials in the Kenya are taking notice to what is happening and the positive shift seems to be dramatic. I'd love to spend some time here and further explore the way Aviram organizes these things with so much success. <br />
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5)A bit of a divergence, but what I'd love to learn more about it, is animal communication. Specifically from Anna Breytenbach in South Africa. Whether or not I'd be able to learn the skill, I have no idea, but it definitely seems like something that more people on planet earth should at least be trying to understand. The more we can connect with animals on a deeper level, the more I believe we can open ourselves up to broader compassion for those beings who are more vulnerable than us. And may hopefully strike passion and drive in people to also want to expand their hearts to include animals. Not using animals as food, and resources, is helpful on so many levels on planet earth, letting go of conditioning, opening up to new creative ways of being and living that doesn't subject others, improving quality of air, water, soil and other resources, opens up possibility of living more connected to others, having more available resources for everyone. <br />
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Apart from that, I'm also looking forward to just being. Being present in life, opening myself up to the possibilities. <br />
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Just felt like sharing.<br />
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Have a great day!<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-43898353811859123932015-10-19T13:13:00.004-07:002015-10-22T12:26:00.344-07:00Feeling disgusted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm rather livid right now. I can't handle the blindness, I know I should be compassionate in this situation, but I have the hardest time, trying to open the minds of these people who are systematically lied to by our culture and I'm exhausted of how narrow scope human beings are able to comprehend. I know I'm supposed to be positive, but I think we all reach our maxed out, angry point at times. This was my response to someone commenting about humans are at the center of the universe, therefore we do what we want and use animals.<br />
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It's unfortunate but I see this all of the time. People claiming that human beings are the apex of all of creation.</div>
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So ultimately we humans believe that animals are resources, how is it then, that most find animal factory farming monstrous then?</div>
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Some claim humans have been using animals since the beginning of time, and why should we ever think about changing?</div>
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Do you really believe that if we have always used animals for, food, shelter, clothing, that that justifies it as sane or good? In the face currently of ecological collapse on multiple fronts --oceanic and all lands?</div>
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Humans have always been at war with one another since as long as we are aware of, does that make war good or sane?</div>
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Humans have traditionally had much lower life spans, about half of what we have today, does that make shorter life spans sane or good?</div>
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Today, our extent to animal manipulation is much more than it ever has been, are you then against this? Animal testing for pharmaceuticals, make-up, house hold products, random experimental designs for 'science'.</div>
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To what extent do you believe animals more resemble plants or rocks than they do humans? To what extent do you believe that animals have no capacity to care for themselves or others or their life? To what extent are Humans more aware, more conscious, more able than animals?</div>
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We just happen to be really good with tools, apart from that, I only actually see animals being often times, much more intelligent than us. We are the only species, who has managed to shift the ecosystem so much, that not only are we annihilating our own species, but we are bringing just about every other species down with us. If that isn't a huge failure of intelligence, I'm not sure what is.</div>
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Just because something is weaker than us, I'm not sure how that justifies us, making full use of it. It's the patriarchal mindset, use what can be used for your own means. Use other races for slaves, because you can, use woman and children for sex and labor without their permission because you can. Use animals for all of your needs, because you can. Use the world and its resources for your needs in excess because you can, Take from the poor, the sick, the helpless and the weak, because they are vulnerable, and it will keep you in power.</div>
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This is the mindset of many of the dominant cultures of the world today, They have hidden the messages so cleverly, yet they are still so bold and vibrant since, these are the actions unfortunately much more common among humans than the choice of compassion on this earth.</div>
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Our societies have successfully taught humans that this is the normal way, the only way, to gain strength, to gain fortune.</div>
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However, what is true compassion, what does living in an ecosphere mean. What is true connection. We live in a world that hardly anyone dare enter, or attempt to understand. We are trapped in the mundane everyday existence of cleaning, working, driving, using our gadgets, absorbing ourselves in made up stories projected onto screens. We are numb. Yet the mystery of the universe, the divine in all creation is here, waiting to be discovered in the minute occurrences that we too often ignore on a daily basis.</div>
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Yet, if we choose to listen, if we choose to be present, we can find this unshakable propensity of wisdom, in nature, we are not limited to the spoken words of humans throughout the ages, of course they would be telling the story with the creature of their choice (their race, gender and religion of human) in the center, but that hardly is anything but a boastful lie, to imagine the world as only full to the extent of that one component. Humans can't exist without the functions of the ecosystem on planet earth, we are hardly important.</div>
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We in fact, are so weak, so fragile, so small in the grand scheme of things. To believe humans are at the center of the stage above and beyond all other life. It's the same mindset as the belief that the Sun rotated around the Earth, claiming everything is only about us. So arrogant, so boastful, so untrue. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfP-XBUbMvs" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfP-XBUbMvs</a></div>
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-60239609546309127312015-10-12T19:53:00.001-07:002015-10-12T19:53:03.449-07:00For these souls.. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After viewing this picture of this animal, who has had their teeth, testicals and their tale ripped out without euthanasia, these were the words that came to me.. </div>
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These are the souls we ruin for our mere taste buds. that's it. Our mere laze in not wanting to change. Take out salt, take out the smoke, take out the cooking from bacon and all it is a piece of dripping flesh from this animal. It's so easy to make that taste in any other food without using this animal's insides.</div>
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In fact, most commercial bacon bits, are actually vegan. Soy, smoke flavor, salt and cooking. Something juicy can be made with tempeh, eggplant, coconut, mushrooms, even jackfruit. I make it all of the time and it's wonderful, and I can eat it with a pure conscious because a being like this, didn't have to suffer so I could get my 'fix' of smoke, salt and cooking.</div>
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That's it. It's no meat fix, because once you give up meat, you realize that you don't even miss it. You miss the tastes and the flavors and the textures associated with meat.. but those can all be absolutely replaced with plants. In fact, we make meat to appear more like plants than it appears to be meat. If it appeared to be more like meat.. We would salivate by looking at this picture. We would eat what was in this picture as is, we would eat the feces on its skin, we would eat everything, including the bones. That's what real carnivores do. If we are actually part 'carnivores' we are the saddest 'part' carnivorous species I've ever seen.</div>
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We have to use tools to kill our prey. And mostly we don't have the capacity to chase them down, we must use tools that can aim at long distances. Even that is too much of a hassle for most of humanity... we actually need to pay someone else, to not only kill animals, but to breed them in small confined spaces, so that there is actually no chance for this animal to escape, even if it was otherwise one of the strongest species on the planet. No, we are the most pathetic part 'carnivores' I've ever witnessed. In fact, I really don't think we are 'part' carnivorous at all. Given that most people are truly disgusted witnessing a butchering event.</div>
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Most don't want anything to do with it. And not to mention our guts, we have the weakest guts as well, when we eat raw animal we get sick. We get obnoxiously sick, and many people die. Cats and dogs have the acidity in their guts to deal with the bacteria. we don't. Not even close. We also have long intestinal tracks just as other herbivorous creatures have, to slowly extract nutrients from plants. Cats have short intestinal tracks, so they can quickly eliminate all of the rotting meat in their guts. What happens to the rotten meat in our guts... well constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, noxious gas... bloating. It's not worth it. taking these lives just isn't worth it, not for our health, not for them, and not for our environment.</div>
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-9760438842765724742015-10-12T11:54:00.004-07:002015-10-12T11:54:52.322-07:00School<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
School has currently been taking up much of my time, I'm in my final semester, so I'm in full writing mode for my thesis.<br />
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Once January hits, I'm planning on traveling more with my husband, visiting more farms and eco communities, soil testing, and sharing what I learn here.<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-80292018478114116382015-08-02T11:51:00.000-07:002015-08-02T11:52:58.175-07:00Veganism: And the problems of being largely misunderstood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I started this blog last year, https://veganrebuttals.wordpress.com/ basically I just needed a place to start putting all of my writings on veganism, where I would respond to online threads and conversations. I was involved with multiple discussion boards, and I was also investing a lot of time in typing up responses. Often I was finding myself writing the same responses or very similar ones, repeatedly, and also having to re-find articles and links to back up my information. <br />
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This spurred a platform for me to compile everything in one place. Every time I felt I was addressing a different type of question or response, I would make a new category. After several months of this, I felt that I roughly had the bases covered on addressing arguments against veganism. I'm still updating it as comments roll in and responses roll out, it's just less frequent. <br />
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My latest post was on, the claim that 'diet is like religion keep it to yourself' and 'the problem with vegans is that they think they superior and enlightened'. <br />
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I felt these were really great comments to address because it is a slightly common perception that vegans have to deal with daily. Some vegans actively avoid confrontation because it's exhausting, it's exhausting physically, mentally and emotionally. It's not easy constantly having to defend your choices in a way that doesn't make people feel bad, ultimately humans largely care about the same things. We largely care about treating animals with respect, having a clean home for our children, having safe drinking water for our communities, having food security in the years to come and having fresh air to breathe. As vegans taking on the personal actions to promote some of these aspects of life on earth, they can easily be misunderstood as on a high horse, when in fact, it feels good to them to do. And human nature, is really to communicate to others what has worked for us. What makes us feel good. Unfortunately because of the depth of our mistreatment of the natural world, many people feel totally overwhelmed by this burden, hence lash out at people they view as contributing to the problem. The truth is, we are all contributing to the problem, yet at different degrees. It just so happens, that making dietary changes, can dramatically change the degree to which harm is inflicted to other beings and the planet. <br />
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If this message came from a non-vegan, perhaps the message would be less intimidating, the person receiving this message could feel that they were on the same page, that this perhaps is beneficial to living systems, yet they aren't alone in facing how complicated those steps seem at face value. It is huge, it's huge to remap your brain to it's tastes and it's preferences, your cells, stomach and body to obtain a fuel source which is a little lighter, a little more nutrient dense. No one said it was easy, it becomes easier, and it becomes increasingly a joyful decision. Most vegans I speak to, say that their biggest regret is not plunging in sooner. If someone is really active fit personality, and they speak to you about how being more fit has changed their life and how they are using less fossil fuels because they avoid elevators and cars, because they enjoy taking their bike and the stairs whenever possible. Can people take offense to this? Sure, if they are in a situation where they feel it's not possible for them, or they feel the person is judging them for not living this way. Does that mean it's the absolute truth? Not in the slightest. It all happens in the minds of the people taking in the information. Someone could hear this athlete talking, and feel inspired, inspired to take small steps to live more actively for their health. Someone else could interpret it as such a favor for them to speak up about their passions, igniting them to also follow their passions whatever it might be. <br />
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has little to do with the messenger, it's how the message is chosen to be received. People like to relate this stuff with religion. But in fact veganism has more to do with science, more consumption of a variety plants leads to higher immunity, animal studies have shown more and more intelligent animal behavior, social structures and sentience, global warming is more and more connected to animal farming in tropical areas. These are logical assessments of the world we live in. They can be actively researched online, in the form of peer reviewed journals, and you will find that it's all there. <br />
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Here are my responses to the comments on vegans being perceived as thinking they are superior and that diets are a personal choice:<br />
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DIETS ARE A PERSONAL CHOICE:<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-83584113371131348862015-07-31T22:30:00.001-07:002015-07-31T22:30:21.782-07:00Vegan on a budget<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vegan meals don't have to be expensive, but they certainly can be. Vegan gourmet restaurants, vegan processed foods, vegan specialty products. These can certainly add up.<br /><br />Here are a few helpful hints on making veganism as affordable as possible.<br /><br />My last year of college I actually saved significantly on my food bill by eating vegan.<br /><br />Granted, I didn't eat packaged foods, at all. Everything I ate was made from scratch every day. Every morning I would wake up 1-2 hours earlier to prepare my food for the day.<br /><br />Helpful Hints:<br /><br />1- <b>Avoid </b>foods that come in <b>cans, boxes and jars </b>as far as possible.<br /><br />2- Get to know your local <b>farmers market</b>. Even better, make friends with the farmers. Talk to them about their <b>culls</b>. Most farms end up throwing out lots of food, not because it's necessarily bad, but because it may not be 'aesthetic' enough to sell. Farmers markets are certainly more lenient than supermarkets, but typically most farms have a serious amount of veggies and fruits that they end up giving largely away to employees or go to the dump. Find out if farmers are willing to work with you -- maybe they would be open to you coming and picking it up from their location on their harvest days, or perhaps you can buy these foods in bulk from them for a reduced price. It's possible that they may be quite happy to work with you on this.<br /><br />3- Some grocery stores, have a section of <b>fresh foods</b> that are going <b>at a reduced rate</b>, they may have been on the shelf a bit longer, with perhaps a few spots, but these foods are still edible and can often go for half the price of their shelved counterparts, if not more.<br /><br />4- <b>Grow herbs in your window sills</b>, basil, parsley, chives, sage, cilantro. If you have space on the patio or garden, it's possible to grow tomatoes, green leaves, salad, radishes. Experiment, find out for yourself how much you can fit in the amount of area that you have. One seed packet, can grow often 7-8 plants. Each plant can harvest several servings. It's definitely the most bang for your dollar.<br /><br />5- Some communities have <b>community garden plots</b>. Sometimes these small plots of land are free to grow whatever you'd like on them, and sometimes it may cost a small amount of money for the season you grow something.<br /><br />6- Get to know if your area has <b>CSA shares</b>. CSA stands for community supported agriculture. Basically at the beginning of the growing season the farmer sells shares of his produce for that season. How this works is you may pay a one time installment of 300-400$ depending on the size of the share (often half and full shares are the common features) in order to receive a fresh fruit and vegetables from that farm on a weekly basis. I get a CSA share from the University campus organic farm. I paid a little over 300 dollars in the spring, in order for a weekly share of veggies that I pick up every Tuesday for about 4 months (if not a little more). In each share of veggies, I get whatever was in season for that week. Recently the shares may look something like:<br />1 bundle of beets<br />1 bundle of kale<br />1 bundle of basil<br />1 bowl of raspberries<br />1 small bag of edamame<br />1 bundle of swiss chard<br />1 bundle of parsley<br />2 heads of lettuce<br /><br />As the season moves forward the shares have more food,<br />they start including tomatoes, zucchinis, eggplant, onions, garlic, etc.<br /><br />It can sometimes be difficult to finish all of the food, I only receive a half share, but it's really ample amount of greens for the week typically. In some cases volunteering at a CSA may mean bringing home lots of extra stuff, either culls, or extras or in some cases the CSA provides volunteers with free shares. CSA shares definitely can save a lot, especially when it comes to organic produce.<br /><br />7- Find others who are into foraging and <b>wild food </b>collecting. There may be local meet up groups, or field days hosted by local universities about wild plants, check local events pages. The cost of wild food is basically the transportation that may be involved in getting to a place where you can collect. Common wild foods (at least in the intermountain west): Amaranth, wild lettuce, dandelions, plantain, sorrel, clover, grass -- actually wheat grass is such a craze in the health food movement, but actually all grass is edible and full of nutrients, the only part of grass that wouldn't be good for health is a black mold that can sometimes be found in a seed head.<br /><br />*Note: Do learn the common poisonous plants in your area to make sure there aren't any edible lookalikes. Wild foods do tend to have more bitter qualities than their store counterparts, but on that same note they are also typically much higher in nutrients such as calcium, iron and other essential elements. These should be slowly introduced into the diet, so to not be too overwhelming for the body, large quantities of new foods can sometimes be a little hard on the stomach, but overtime adjustment will happen.<br /><br />8- I haven't personally tried this cookbook but Robin Robertson has written a cookbook specifically for vegans wanting to save money, "Vegan on the Cheap", there is also a book by Ellen Jones, "Eat vegan on 4 $ a day". Both having fairly good reviews on Amazon.<br /><br />9-Also, just remember that by eating vegan, you are saving some pretty hefty expenses that may not occur later on, because you are amping up your immunity through fresh foods. To learn more about this, please refer to Primitive Nutrition series on youtube, where multiple first hand scientific journals are reviewed on basically the health benefits of a plant based diet. Other helpful resources: (films) fat sick and nearly dead, forks over knives, healing cancer, eat, and simply raw, (books) nutritarian handbook. You may find that medications you once needed, may begin feeling less useful, once your body really begins to adapt and thrive off of whole fresh foods.<br /><br />10- Cooking/Uncooking tips:</div>
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*Note: these tips are largely for those living in the US, some of these may be helpful tips in other locations, however depending on the region food selection and prices will vary as local foods will tend to be more available hence cheaper than imported food. On that note, no matter where you live, buying local foods will most likely be the best value for your money. <br /><br />When using online recipes or recipes from books and you want to maintain the same quality yet not use such expensive ingredients, here are some go to ingredient swaps that can make a nice difference in your pocketbook.<br /><br /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"> Cashews and pine nuts -- cashews can certainly be expensive, often over $10 for a bag (and much more for pine nuts), and same with almonds. Try sunflower seeds, often they sell for $3 a bag, being a dryland crop they don't take a lot of resources to grow. In fact, they often grow as 'weeds' in many arid regions. You can make cheeses with these, creams, even milk. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Cereal -- cereal adds up, especially boxed cereal. The best savings is to have oatmeal instead of cereal, or something else home-made instead of oatmeal. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Vegan meats, cheeses, yogurts, ice-cream and other specialty products -- this is where the costs of vegan can really hit the pocket. A lot of these products are 5 dollars each, sure maybe they taste amazing, and maybe they are great for special occasions, but for everyday fair, it will certainly add up. Also many of these products can be made at home, vital wheat gluten is a common ingredient for vegan meats, cashews or tofu are common in cheeses -- however cashews can be substituted by sunflower seeds and tofu can be substituted by chickpea 'tofu' http://www.mynewroots.org/site/2014/04/genius-chickpea-tofu/</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Tofu-- I just listed this above, but figured it was worth mentioning in it's own bullet. Not that tofu is that expensive, however making your own from chickpea flour is cheaper, http://www.mynewroots.org/site/2014/04/genius-chickpea-tofu/ </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Berries and exotic fruits -- of course these are so good for you, however they are often expensive, apples, oranges and bananas are typically the most cost effective fruits. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Basil - Basil is amazing, and every now and again I may spend to get some, however, other herbs are much cheaper. Cilantro and parsley for example typically sell for a fraction of the price that basil does. Cilantro pesto is awesome-- and is personally my favorite, and much cheaper to make than basil pesto. Some people prefer the taste of parsley over cilantro, in that case make pesto from parsley. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Ready made sauces -- to be avoided, the only sauce that is fairly useful in vegan cooking is tomato sauce, for some reason blended tomatoes don't always give the same rich texture that canned tomatoes do. For all other exotic and fun ready made sauces, just skip them. Healthier sauces can be easily made at home. Tahini and peanut butter are packaged foods, however if used sparingly within recipes can go a long way for the investment. Tahini often goes for $10 a jar, but will last months in the cupboard, and is great in so many recipes. I've even made my own milk from 1 banana, 1-2 tbsp tahini and 2-3 cups of water blended. It may be acquired taste, but for the time I had little time I wanted to invest in actually making a nut milk, this was a perfect solution for me. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Supplements-- don't worry too much about this, B12 is important to have but apart from that as long as you are getting plenty of greens, and calories in general, you will have the nutrients that you need from a vegan diet. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Pickles -- organic pickles can be pretty expensive. Try buying a cucumber instead, slicing it thin and marinating it in sugar, salt and vinegar. It may add the right amount of tangy crunchiness to your sandwich that you may not even miss the jarred variety. (http://www.food.com/recipe/norwegian-cucumber-salad-agurksalat-423204)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Olives -- Sometimes there are sales on organic olives, but incase it's not happening, capers are generally more affordable. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Bread -- If you are really looking to save money, buy flour not bread. You will get 6-7 loaves for the price of one, if you make your own bread. This can be time consuming, so again it really depends what level of cost saving you are interested in. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Junk food -- I know it's tempting, but chips, cookies, cakes, sugar and fat filled things only serve to deplete the body of nutrients, keeping up the vicious cycle of cravings and hunger. The more quality rich food you have the more full you will be, hence the less you will buy. Raw food recipes are especially great at satisfying cravings. Try a raw broccoli soup, you may be surprised at how quickly your nerves and cravings stabilize. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Dates, agave and maple syrup-- in the US, alternative sweeteners can be pricy, these are common sweeteners in vegan cooking. Alternatively you can buy stevia -- upfront costs may be more, however the quantities needed to sweeten are very very minute, hardly a few grains. One small container can last years -- mine certainly has. Raisins can also be used, these are much cheaper than dates and can easily replace dates in many raw food recipes. If neither of these quite fit the bill, agave is certainly cheaper than maple syrup, and can be used sparingly. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Buy in bulk, go to the bulk aisle and get everything you want in dried version, cans of beans definitely add up in cost. Pre-made rice in bags or boxes give you much less value for your money. Load up on dried bulk food. *if you have never cooked dried beans, it's less intimidating than you might think, throw them in a slow cooker for 8 hours while you are at work with ample water alternatively soak them in water overnight and simmer them for 1 hour until they are soft. If you are interested in foods that cook faster, try millet instead of rice, try lentils instead of beans, they don't require soaking or an hour. They can be done in 20 minutes, sometimes a bit longer, but at minimum about 20 minutes. I have never been brave enough to use a pressure cooker, but that is another way that these foods can be cooked much quicker. </li>
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-31874597221136597802015-03-29T13:53:00.002-07:002015-03-29T13:53:39.931-07:00Cat Fostering: Best Practices<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First of all, thank you for your service to the world and to animals! If you have never owned a pet before, this is a great way to start, to gain experience without making the life-long commitment yet also experiencing the same joys that many long term pet owners get. Many animal shelters are saturated with animals, and they need as much help as they can get. This is a great way to get involved in your community, give exposure to animals to what it's like living in a loving home, and ultimately being part of the process in giving permanent homes to many animals. <br />
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Bringing your first foster animal home for the first time can be exciting. Or at least it is always for me. It's the start to a new friendship, that on that first day, you really have no idea what's in store. This can be both intimidating yet intriguing. <br />
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Be prepared before the animal enters your house. If you are limited on a budget, then don't worry about these things, the things you get along with the animal should be enough to take care of the animal, these extras are just basically help the animal feel a little more comfortable a little faster. <br />
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1- Cat treats: Although many cats arriving to a new place are too nervous to want food, it's at least a good way to show your cat that you doing the best you can to make him or her feel more comfortable.<br />
2-Canned cat food: At the shelter they are fed dry food, which is fine, and feeding them dry at home will most likely make the transition easier for them anyway. However having canned food on hand will be helpful if the cat you have brought home is mostly avoiding food. The canned food definitely has a stronger lure on the animal and may help in getting them to eat. <br />
3- Leash and halter: These things are definitely not necessary, but I like to use them to see how comfortable the cat is being outside, without the risk of the cat running away. Although the cats so far I've watched have been moderately scared of the outdoors. The leash can also double as a cat toy, to drag around the house :)<br />
4-Wide cat tray, clumping clay kitty litter -- the shelter may or may not provide this, the first cat that I fostered, for some reason wasn't too fond of the kitty litter box I got from the shelter. So by my 2nd cat I made sure that I followed the best practices to see if it would make a difference. Basically cats typically prefer the clumping clay kitty litter, I was too excited when I saw wheat and corn based kitty litter but the reality is my cats began using them as beds or eating it.. they didn't realize it was a toilet! I think if you get a kitten it would be easy to train on anything, but if you are getting a cat from a shelter, make sure you find out what kind of kitty litter they are using, and try not to veer from that. Cats a super particular about where they go and if things change too much on them, they are capable of peeing in inappropriate places. Having a big tray, can also make a cat feel more invited to go inside of the kitty litter box, uncovered is typically preferred as well.<br />
5- Scratch post or layers of corrugated cardboard equipped with catnip. Cats typically really enjoy this. Entering a new home, it's impossible to know what they may like to scratch, this will help get their clawing tendencies out on something they are supposed to, to help save your furniture. <br />
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Set a room or portion of your house designated for your cat. This will be the place your cat can go when you are out of the house, and at night. You will be able to put the cat's bed in here, along with kitty litter and food and water. Make sure you keep the food and water and the kitty litter on opposite sides of the room. Cats don't like to go the the bathroom in the vicinity of their food. And they may instead choose to hold it, or stop eating/drinking. If you know they are potty trained it could be a room where there is carpet, however if you are unsure, it could be a bathroom or maybe even an organized storage room. <br />
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Just like when guest enters your house and you welcome them and pay attention to them, your cat needs similar treatment. Coming to a brand new place can be scary. It's good to help them feel that you are taking care of them, and they will be okay. They need lots of reassurance, we may or may not know their stories or backgrounds but they could be from abusive homes or were neglected, or just from the streets. Don't assume that the cat will feel comfortable in its own time, you need to go out of your way in the beginning to attempt to pet the cat, play with the cat, talk to the cat. This will open the cat up so it feels more comfortable in this new place. Chances are, your cat will remain in the carrier box, or find a really good hiding place straight away, or continue to find hiding places the whole while. This is perfectly normal behavior, but don't forget about them. These animals not only need food, water and shelter, but also human contact to help them feel more comfortable. Coax them out of hiding with a toy or a gentle hand. Don't expect them to be super cuddly at first, or want to be held or carried. they typically don't in the beginning. They take their own time as to what they are comfortable with. <br />
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If you are away from multiple hours, try to spend at least 15 minutes of quality time with them in a place in the house they are most comfortable. Pet them, and try to play with them. Sometimes if they don't get this attention to begin with they will take much longer to adjust. As you give them attention you might notice that suddenly they will go for food, or maybe they will feel comfortable to go to the litter box. Reinforce this behavior, by staying still or letting them know they are doing a good job. It sounds weird, but sometimes they will start to do a behavior, and they are waiting for you to tell them it's okay or not. Mostly these animals, just love having you around and love getting attention.<br />
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Make sure your actions are slow and steady. This way to limit the chances that the cat will want to go into hiding. <br />
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Keep doors closed that are off limits to the cat, over time they may be allowed into all rooms, but to begin with, it's good to keep bedroom doors closed, to keep the cats out of personal belongings and perhaps even accidents that could happen. This is really important because as you and the cat are learning each other, rules are also being learned, and opening up the entire house at once can end in a really bad situation for everyone if the cat does something its not supposed to. Until trust has been earned, a cat be limited in its access to different areas of the house. <br />
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Keep the litter box as clean as possible. Just a good practice to have to make sure the cat knows you are taking care of them, and keeping them in a sanitary place. <br />
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Enjoy the time you have with them, take lots of pictures, videos and write about the animals. These are all very valuable feedback to your local animal shelter and really helps these animals get adopted to their final homes :)</div>
Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-151640753681696932015-03-29T12:18:00.000-07:002015-03-29T12:18:36.698-07:00Animal rights and Sustainability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So many of our systems largely depend on animals, and this has created many negative repercussions. <br />
1- We treat living beings as machines, their food and shelter are inputs, and their body parts and secretions are outputs. Our educational programs are about optimizing and cheapening the inputs for more and more 'efficient' and commodified outputs. <br />
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2- Destruction of our ecosphere. Depending on organisms further up the food chain, makes us less efficient in our use of planet earth. Is the biggest contributor to global warming, ocean dead zones, ground water pollution, soil compaction, destruction of rain forest.<br />
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3- Animals without homes, sentient living beings with personalities, emotions, wants and needs, treated as objects, tortured, killed, contained, and homeless. <br />
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Something that can significantly help in our wrongs we have committed to the planet and fellow beings is being vegan. Choosing to refrain from eating and using sentient beings and higher trophic organisms, for any purpose. <br />
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But just as the human family has done many atrocious things over the years, merely 'stopping' doing something, isn't always enough. we need to take an active effort in undoing and fixing what has been wronged. <br />
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For example, merely ending slavery for African Americans living in the USA, although an important step isn't enough. Support is needed to help balance the power/control/patterns that had been created for so many years. Active involvement and participation needs to be taken on all levels to adequately provide buffers to subjugated peoples, in order to level the playing the field.<br />
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Basically we need to take responsibility for the wrongs that have been committed and do whatever we can in our power to not only stop the actions that subjugate, but also support to the extent that is beneficial and distributes equality among all living beings. <br />
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So in taking these animals off of our plates, out of our clothes and household products. As far as possible each of us, needs to take consideration how we can further support equality for animals. <br />
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Sustainability is important, and to me sustainability includes how we can care for all of our current living being adequately. This doesn't mean to live lavishly, but to reduce our own consumption as much as possible and share our resources as much as possible with those without power to obtain resources, or those with little power. <br />
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This means to donate as much as possible to worthy causes. Ideally causes that address multiple key issues at once. <br />
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For example, Sadhana Forest, is a vegan community who also delves into local food, water and sustainability issues. In Kenya, they work with communities in helping them plant and maintain trees, become more food sovereign, raise ground water, provide alternative energy to the community. Several issues are being tackled at once, these are awesome programs to support. <br />
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Also contributing to wildlife reserves, to help pay for security guards, wildlife rangers, etc. <br />
In supporting locals to protect the area and support wildlife aids local communities by all of the services provided by wildlife -- rainwater capture and filtration, medicine, food, etc. <br />
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Contributing to organizations working in animal rights, Animal Defenders International, who work in several countries rescuing and lobbying against animals kept in abusive situations, zoos and circuses. <br />
Animal rights organizations, and all and any type of animal sanctuaries, where abused and neglected animals have the ability to live out the rest of their lives in peace. <br />
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There are other ways to contribute, when cash is low or you just want to do something more. <br />
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Organizing vegan meetups, establish a community in your area. Hold pot lucks, host vegan videos to share the message, contact restaurants on vegan options. <br />
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Another way to support animals is to stop buying animal breeds. This one often is not spoken about enough, especially among people who adamantly 'love' animals. Cat and dog breeding only adds to the 7-8 millions of abandoned pets every year, and that's only in the USA. <br />
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We need to be more responsible with the way we think about animals. They are not objects, they are not status symbols, they are sentient beings with their own personalities. <br />
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The best thing we can do for animals is to adopt from animal shelters. And if you are fond of a particular breed, many times those breeds end up in shelters, may take a bit of scouting, but you will probably find what you are looking for. <br />
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Consider adopting an older animal. Babies are usually the first to get adopted out. But animals of all ages need home and love. <br />
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If your lifestyle is such that adopting an animal is out of the question, consider fostering an animal for or a week or two when you can. You will learn the joys of having animals around, and you can also see just how supportive that action is for your local animal shelter. Many animals in shelters just don't get the personalized attention that they need. And is really crucial that they learn to become social and used to households, it really increases their chances of being adopted out, especially as the shelter can learn more about their personalities through you! <br />
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It may seem weird to have the animals for a short amount of time, but as a community, I envision that our society can collectively take responsibility for the pain and suffering we've inflicted on animals for so many years, and open up our homes to either permanently or temporarily care for animals. I think it's the least we can do as a community to help the situation.<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-56575241208841202812015-02-11T00:46:00.002-08:002015-02-11T00:46:43.577-08:00Kitchen Permaculture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My friend Nandini in Delhi, I recently had the opportunity to visit. It's always fun staying with her, plus the food she makes is awesome. <br />
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She and a friend have recently put together a cookbook will be published this spring. It is international vegan food. They've organized it in the form of menu's. It sounds amazing, so far I've tried one item in the cookbook which is awesome. <br />
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It was a gluten free, oil free lasagna. <br />
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Basically it's made of steamed veggies which have been cut into strips, carrot, zucchini, eggplant, potatoes, and in between the layers is put a tomato sauce and a fermented cashew cheese. <br />
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The cashew cheese tops it, and I could not even believe that after baking it, the cheese even became crispy on top! It was so delicious and I am certainly looking forward to their cook book coming out :)<br />
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An interesting thing they do with their orange peels is putting them in a big bowl of water to soak. This water than became very fragrant, and makes an awesome floor wash! <br />
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She also showed me her rooftop garden which was lovely, all of her kitchen scraps get placed in the top clay pot, mixed with leaves and then slowly the pots move down the line, until it becomes finished compost at the end. The compost then gives back to her garden in pots :)<br />
She is growing spinach, sprouts, radishes and others. <br />
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She was having a hard time with aphids, and someone came to help her switch out all of her soil for new soil, and this seemed to clear up the problem. <br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-86280999626056941652015-02-11T00:12:00.000-08:002015-02-11T00:12:42.471-08:00All Creatures Great and Small & Naz Foundation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently had the opportunity to visit the animal sanctuary run by Anjali Gopalan. <br />
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I was contacted by Claude who is in charge of composting at the sanctuary. They have a something like 1/2 an acre of a vegetable garden from which they feed their staff and center for children who are affected by HIV in Delhi. <br />
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I came to test the soil, which the results should be coming out soon, for general nutrients and also testing for heavy metal contamination. <br />
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The organic farm/animal sanctuary was beautiful. It was so touching to see all of the animals taken such good care of by Anjali and her staff, the animals are visited weekly by the employed veterinarian. The animals that make their way there are typically in critical condition. They may be missing limbs, or have broken bones, orphaned, blind, etc. They had a small monkey who was paralyzed they were feeding, I also saw a calf who was rather disoriented as he was blind. A small pup couldn't quite keep his tongue in his mouth, he was missing a part of his jaw.<br />
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I asked Claude, is it possible to get prosthetics for these animals, is there such thing as a prosthetic jaw? Claude looked at me and smiled, "Well just because they may look a little funny, doesn't always mean that their quality of life is any lower or they are less happy. This one still eats normally and plays normally, just because he looks different doesn't mean he hasn't the right to be, or shouldn't deserve to be around." <br />
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Of course I didn't mean it in the sense that something ought to be done or else. But it's always a good reminder, for us all when we are ever seeking perfection and improvement. I guess there are those who feel that way, that a dog with three legs may not live a happy life. I didn't get that impression from the animals here. Their very presence really touched my heart. You could definitely tell they had a good life, and had so much love, they were love. And it was beautiful to be there. <br />
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They had many animals, they had donkeys, horses, cows, one camel, emus, baby monkeys, over 200 dogs, cats, peacocks, chickens, and baby deer who were very very adorable. <br />
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They also had a pond of fish :)<br />
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They also had such a beautiful big and open kitchen<br />
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They recently purchased more land so they could expand the amount of land that the animals could have. Claude is very keen on integrating as many permaculture principles as he can into the design as well. <br />
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As of now his compost his a mixture of old farm soil, ash, compost/fresh greens, straw and newspaper. The crop looks awesome, he bought some simple soil pH tests, which indicated that the soil and the compost were rather alkaline -- about 8.0 <br />
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Our thoughts were to maybe decrease the amount of ash used in the compost. <br />
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Yet, it will be interesting to see the results from the soil lab because we also don't really know how accurate those tests might be. <br />
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In this picture you can see their system for watering, they put in these tubed pipes so that they only need to water into the tube, so the plant receives directly the water that it needs. <br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-74714240070711527222015-01-18T23:45:00.002-08:002015-02-11T00:31:22.551-08:00Assam, India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am currently in Assam, India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon arrival we drove through Guwahati, where we would be staying as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband is
doing a 2 week project with a company located in Assam, and we will be
travelling around visiting their different sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly I’ve been room bound, since I’m
working on school stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My advisor has
been generous enough to let me come to India and work on write-ups for my
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Some pictures from the road :)<br />
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I did manage to visit a museum in Guwahati.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was actually one of the cutest museums
I’ve ever visited. There were 4 floors to this museum many artifacts, most
likely more than one hundred, however they had no descriptions posted for any
of the items. It was anybody’s best guess what the items could have been used
for, some of the items had a single name, and perhaps it was listed what the
item was made from, often it was cow dung, hair, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing all of the things you can make with
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The most interesting part was 2<sup>nd</sup> level where
they had put mannequins out with all of the traditional styles of dress from
all of the different communities. I had no idea there was such diversity among
the people in the way they dressed themselves. Assam is in the Northeast region
of India, quite close to China, Bhutan, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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between countries, but how culturally borders aren’t so defined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s observable in the styles of clothes that
can be seen as well as in the bone structure of the face and shape of the
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s interesting how the mixtures
of characteristics typically defined to certain regions, take on a very unique
form of beauty when they are blended with another 'country’s'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Afterwards our driver took us to the only ‘male’ river in
the world. At least in the hindi language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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however on the inside the river is raging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If anyone were to fall in at any point in this river, they would be
absolutely done for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether or not this
is true, I don’t know. It was a beautiful river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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We were supposed to go the next morning to a temple. The
most famous temple in Guwahati, it is said that anything you wish for will
come true when you are there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently
this temple is supposedly a representation of ‘mother’s’ or ‘mother earth’s’
vagina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s a bit strange
sounding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even close the temple 3
days in the year to allow for the ‘temple’s’ menstrual flow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever that actually means, I don’t know,
but apparently they figure it out with complex astrology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s all very interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was told that inside the temple there is
nothing, it is barren.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband looked
it up, and found pictures of menstruating goddesses, in rather provocative
positions with painted red all over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Seemed a bit intense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last
straw that really made us uninterested to visit the place was the continued
presence of sacrificial killings of animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I made up my mind, no way would I be interested in visiting
such a place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, cultures have
always fascinated me, but I can’t seem to wrap my head around why sacrifice is
still such a big thing. I understand to an extent, many people live in fear of
the unknown and of the future, of the wrath of gods and bad luck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything that has been done by the ancestors,
must have worked right, since the people are obviously still there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you respect a people yet not support
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I’d like to see the age of man, where we no longer are bound
by our fears but we are living in trust of life, and in respect of all beings
on Earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This respect would be given to
them because of their innate qualities, not for the qualities that are often
used and exploited by humans. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p>I realized this too late, but only 1 hour from where I was staying was a wildlife sanctuary. If I had been familiar with this sooner, I would have planned a trip there instead but as it was, didn't happen. Maybe on the next journey :)</o:p></div>
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Yesterday we made it to Lanka, about a 3 hour journey from
Guwahati.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a much slower paced
place, much more greenery than the average city in India. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been sneaking fruits to the goats who live next door to
the guesthouse I am staying in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
pasture is unfortunately completely eaten to the bone. I have no idea how these
animals are actually surviving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
people who are ‘herding’ them seem to move them around often, however there are
hardly other places that have grass or food available for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, I’ve been happily sneaking them
grapes and apples. I’ve been doing my best to be discreet about it, never fun
getting in trouble, good news is, I’m obviously a ‘foreigner’ to this place and
the only advantage to not speaking the language is in playing dumb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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I actually haven’t seen anyone who isn’t Indian in this
place as of yet, I think for the most part ‘foreigners’ aren’t allowed in these
parts of the country because of the political unstability of some of the
places.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that I have a PIO, none of
it really applies to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A PIO though
doesn’t exactly change your skin or hair color, so the fact that I am not from
here is all too obvious to most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
museum it was funny to watch how the people reacted to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were sneaking pictures and sometimes
forming crowds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some of the places in
the south, they explained to me that often many of the people from smaller
towns had never seen a white person before, the only place has been on
television, so their first assumption when seeing a white person is that they
must be a movie star.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the south, the
difference is in some of the villages that they will actually come up and ask
for your autograph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Anyway, I find it all kind of cute and amusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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India is a very rich country, both culturally and
ecologically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recently read in the
paper about how the new prime minister wants to make it as easy as possible for
business and industry to acquire land and make work very possible and easy
here. It’s pretty disheartening to see the leaders of this country, basically
say to India, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t care about your
health, longevity or happiness. I don’t care about your wilderness, your
greenery or beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment we throw
all else out the window for the sake of development, pollution and business and
the majority of the population doesn’t seem to bat an eye at this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a very disheartening time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope to see people radically standing up to
such claims with vehement enthusiasm to withhold from such kind of economic
development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It serves no one in the
long run. Short term profit is a political joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very sad state that our leaders have made
us believe is the ultimate goal in life… but in reality it means nothing, just
the degradation of our beautiful land and beautiful nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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At our last guesthouse, I was on the balcony admiring the
trees and all, from the corner of my eye it looked like a white flower in the
tree, I turned my attention to it, only to find that it was a crumpled up
napkin. How did the napkin get into the tree?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A further inspection was that the tree was actually covered in floss,
napkins and wrappers. They had been taking the trash, our trash from our rooms
and throwing it over the balcony. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How can you be more at one with nature at the point? You
can’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I immediately stopped using napkins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I really would like to overall cut
my use of products that generate waste, either because of their creation or
disposal. I know this can be a difficult thing and requires that many thing to
be used, ought to be made from scratch, from whole materials, grains, fruits and
vegetables that don’t require packaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The challenge that I would have is using a car as well as my
computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which is relatively needed for
school. It would be possible to mitigate my use of my car perhaps, and opt for
the bicycle more often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I think this is why I have such an immense appreciation for
India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lessons it gives you through
these extremes, you really wouldn’t otherwise get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can cognitively understand and ‘try’ to
be a good person who uses limited resources, however your actions and
repercussions are so disconnected from your life, how then do these lessons
sink in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think they properly
can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So I am sitting here, in this nice guest house, listening to
the village music which typically will permeate through an entire town. Not
sure how they manage to get such an efficient sound equipment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last thing I wanted to share is that recently my brother in
law and father in law in Pune, wrote to me. There was something about soil in
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Apparently much of India suffers from micronutrient
deficiencies in the soil such as iron and zinc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is because there is so little emphasis on organic inputs in most
conventional operations, the emphasis is on nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus,
however over time this creates problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The article mentioned how this is having huge health repercussions;
people aren’t getting the nutrients necessary for good health from eating from
these lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Awareness is certainly getting it’s way around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was also recently contacted by an NGO just
outside of New Delhi. They have 1 acre, where they grow many fruits and
vegetables for 30 children who have AIDS. They also have an animal shelter, and
place for the residents who take care of the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gentleman who contacted me is in charge
of composting on site, he has learned a method of composting that takes only a
couple of weeks for the nutrients to turn over. <o:p></o:p></div>
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He was curious to know if there was a way to make the system
more productive, sustainable and healthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was interested in soil tests and making sure there were no
contaminants on site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a little bit
of research, since in USA soil tests for contaminants is pretty pricey, I quickly found out that it's no different in India. Most of these tests cost about $ 10 per contaminant per sample which can easily add up to over $100 depending on what all tests you are wanting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I told him we could investigate his property’s history and
understand what soil tests would be most relevant. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I'll be visiting his farm in a few weeks, and I'll be sure to update again and post some pictures, especially as they are doing a lot of great work and are very interested in permaculture and sustainability :)</div>
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We also had the chance to drive by a wildlife sanctuary, it has the highest per capita number of rhinos in the world! <br />
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This picture is a bit blurry.. but it was so amazing to see the rhinos especially with their young. <br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-81075803981702869202014-10-14T09:25:00.002-07:002014-10-14T09:25:27.792-07:00What loving the self, could look like. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's common that many spiritual teachers, praise the idea of 'loving the self'. Of course there are many benefits to this sort of phenomena, for example self confidence and perhaps even happiness in ones own skin.<br />
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It is definitely one of the most interesting things of the human experience. Although, despite people's attempts to love themselves, it becomes more a badgering than actually a self discipline. "I need to love myself, why don't I love myself? Why is it so easy for others to love themselves? What is wrong with me? Something is wrong with me? I am pathetic, I am useless, it's hopeless, I am hopeless" It turns into a self sabotaging mission at best, in some cases, which is quite ironic and contradictory to begin with.<br />
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It might be that 'self love' is something that perhaps we are conditioned to do as children, how we perceive others' relationships to themselves, and how we often mimic that.<br />
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The past 6 months have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for me in terms of a mix between my personal life and just essentially non-stop to-dos and work for school. And sometimes the focus on math and science, is a little hard, for the self-identified artist within me. The colorful adventurer, humanist and empath. I'm getting through it, and it's definitely a learning experience, but it doesn't mean that there are always no rocks to stumble over on the way.<br />
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Two days ago I decided to start a gratitude journal -- I feel like its one of those things you know is always a good thing to do, but for whatever reason, its not done, not sure what shifted this time, but I finally committed to it. And, surprisingly I can see already such a big shift in the way I view my current reality.<br />
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My gratitude journal was started by watching this video <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en">http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en</a><br />
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I committed to writing for 21 days, 3 new things to be grateful each day, and 1 journal entry about a happy event that happened in the day. I noticed that I had fallen into this thought trap -- "Once I'm done with school I can start my life, and then I can be happy." -- although I have done that my whole life, ... "Once I start school I will be happy, or once I do this or that then I will be.... "<br />
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Yesterday a realization suddenly hit, "what am I doing?" Big things, can never actually make us happy. They are merely the (thought/ephemeral) container(s) for the experiences we have on a day to day basis. It's the small things on a day to day basis that make us happy. A realization, an interaction with a sweet animal, a smile from a stranger, a clean home, fresh food to eat. It struck me, that I've been living in this world of --- 'If only I was this way,' or 'if only I could do what I wanted' or' go where I wanted' or start 'this' or that.'<br />
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Yet, even when all those things are in order (if ever)... I'll still have a daily schedule... I'll still have to dos, I'll still have mornings and evenings... and shared moments and alone moments.. nothing really changes.<br />
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The present is the only thing that we can base our truth and happiness after. Everything else is just a thought. Even the 'self' to some extent is a seemingly temporary structure that seems to have varying degrees of boundaries, identifications, expansiveness and contractedness -- all of which seem to almost be haphazard, as to how we feel and what we have energy to learn and do and create. I'm coming to think its also just a container for the truth -- which is actually only the present moment. <br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-76438005528851421682014-08-21T08:14:00.003-07:002014-08-21T08:14:39.346-07:00War torn. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For the most part, I feel so numb when I hear about war. It's always on the news, always in the paper. Yet, it seldom strikes a chord. Maybe because it feels so out of reach, surreal, and renders me completely helpless in what I can do to help. And sometimes, something shifts, and a chord is hit. Sometimes a single picture is enough to penetrate the emotional callouses I've developed over the years, and I feel something, I feel heavy. I've somehow been given a life, where bombs and physical devastation, aren't a part of my day to day reality. For so many beings, this isn't the case. I wish there was something I could do. Right now. Sometimes I wish there was just some button that could be pressed... to pause life, just long enough, to set it all straight. What are we doing? Why are we living like this? Why do we care more about our iphones and tvs shows than we do our fellow companions on planet earth? When did humanity become so separate from each other? How did we grow so much hatred in our hearts? I do believe that we have such capacity to love, and such capacity to forgive.. can't we just turn it on... can't we just get over ourselves and our opinions.. and maybe stop the destruction? Or even better lend a helping hand. Isn't that what being human is all about-- our capacity for intelligence and caring... and if it's not, can it be changed? Can we change? Praying for peace.<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-6409005297081251472014-07-15T10:13:00.002-07:002014-07-15T10:13:24.192-07:00New blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have a new blog dedicated to vegan rebuttals. I found myself often getting into conversations, where I would say the same thing basically over and over and over.<br />
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I continuously adding to this, and continuously adding more categories, it's such a nice thing though to have them all just in one go to place.<br />
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A lot of the questions actually have come from Facebook. So if some of them seem like I am responding to a very specific question, it's because I am :)<br />
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Anyway, but my latest post was on protein, and meat substitutes, it has a ton of links to youtube videos :)<br />
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<a href="http://veganrebuttals.wordpress.com/">http://veganrebuttals.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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And I also have a blog dedicated to what I eat on a regular basis -- lately it's been really quick meals, because I'm always on the go --<br />
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-87809239250719744552014-07-05T13:10:00.000-07:002014-07-05T13:10:56.691-07:00Interesting discussion thread<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The person brought up native Americans and how connected and grateful they were to the earth and all its creatures, yet they ate meat and hunted for their various needs.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If I would kill and eat you, do you think anyone who would say that I were connected and grateful to you/respected you? The Native Americans had a lot of rituals and ceremonies claiming that they had respect for other creatures, but unlike some Eastern ethnic groups/religions, who actually practiced what they preached, and did not kill animals for food, many of the Native Americans said one thing but lived in a way that clearly showed that they did not respect other living beings' right to live. The way Native Americans treated animals (and in many cases, humans) were more barbarian than lots of other ethnic groups we know of. Ie. they didn't just kill their enemies, they chopped their heads off afterwards and put it on exhibition, so to speak.</span><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To write, say or sing that you you respect another being's right to live doesn't mean that you actually do it. If I respect you, I simply don't kill and eat you. If I kill you, I don't respect that you, and not I, should decide wether you should die or not. If you have decided that you want to live, and I kill you, I don't respect you, neither am I deeply connected to you, because if I were, I wouldn't end your life. </span><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All the Western cultures that has attacked, killed and exploited so called primitive cultures in other parts of the world throughout history has done it in the name of God their own religion/God. Prayers and religious ceremonies are often used in association with wars/killing of others, in all cultures, and Native Americans are no exception. </span><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have the feeling that some brutal warrior tribes - in all cultures - 'insert' some rituals and ceremonies into their brutal actions, only as an attempt to try to hide how brutal their actions are, because deep down they know that what they do are against their own ethics. Maybe they're only trying to fool themselves, but manage to fool others as well. </span><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you see a person or animal and kill him to satisfy your need for food or other products, you look at this creature as a 'product', just like factory farmers look at 'their' animals. Or - you look at it as a living creature and respect it until you are hungry or want it's body parts for other purposes, then that creature is just a 'product'. </span><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #d6dac3; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If a potential murderer see a rich man and kill him because he needs his money, he wouldn't get a way with explaining that the guy he killed didn't grow up in a 'human factory', or by telling the court that he lived a free life until he was shot. When it comes to humans, we know that killing is killing, and no person, Native American or not, would get away with theories about respecting the person, being connected with him or which rituals he had performed before he shot him. IMO, it's only habitual thinking that causes some humans to think that an Native American who kills an animal for food is doing something less unethical than a murderer who kills another human being for money, food or other selfish reasons.</span></div>
Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-14162120007537147592014-07-04T21:59:00.000-07:002014-07-04T21:59:36.665-07:00New favorite website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What a wealth of information, holy crap, I've been so enjoying reading every single word on this site!!! I love it so much. I've seriously been thinking so much about how people tend to react to animal rights issues. It's soooo much more than animal rights, it's EARTHLING rights. It's about how to abolish ALL violence in this world-- it makes no difference if that violence is directed at animals or people BOTH ARE COMPLETELY EQUAL in every way. <br />
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<a href="http://quotesonslavery.org/about/">http://quotesonslavery.org/about/</a><br />
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"When I was a non vegan, I was not arrogant, I was ignorant. I was ignorant of the fact that I was living in a totally speciesist way. I was unaware of the fact that I was contributing to an extreme form of violence by eating, wearing, and using animals for my own and my family’s entertainment. I was ignorant of the fact that, as I was lovingly settling my own babies to bed at night, nonhuman mothers were grieving for theirs, their babies who had been stolen from them by humans like me. When the reality of what I was doing hit home, I chose to answer the call and modify my way of living. I chose to begin to live in such a way that I would stop causing harm, wilfully and needlessly, to any other living beings, regardless of their specific characteristics. I became vegan. I believe the arrogance sets in when you are being informed of the needless suffering and deaths you are causing by not embracing a vegan way of living, and choose to continue being a part of the problem. You so affirm that your own pleasurable interests are more important than those of innocent creatures and that makes one an arrogant and self-centered human being.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Diane Dion</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/diane-dion-20131001.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Diane's Facebook comment">October 1, 2013</a>)</div>
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Criticizing discrimination and exploitation, while discriminating and exploiting, doesn’t make much sense at all.</div>
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My liberal, progressive, socialist, and anarchist friends—please go vegan and make some sense.<br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ John Tallent</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/john-tallent-20130927.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read John's Facebook comment">September 27, 2013</a>)</div>
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Humans do *not* need to eat, wear, be entertained by, or otherwise use animals. Opt out of the horrific violence today by going vegan today. (The hard part isn’t going vegan; the hard part is declaring who you are in a world that values conformity.)<br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Sarah K. Woodcock</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/sarah-woodcock-20130208.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Sarah's Facebook comment">February 8, 2013</a>)</div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-style: normal;">Veganism, whereby we stand up for the rights of others not to be exploited, extends beyond non-human animals. That is, veganism means standing up against the exploitation of ALL animals including humans. And thus, as a vegan, I stand up against the Israeli occupying forces of Palestine and look forward to the day when the rest of the world does the same.</span></div>
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To religious people, I’d say treat nonhuman animals the way you would like to be treated by your god or supernatural power, which, for virtually everyone if they’re honest, entails veganism.</div>
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To nonbelievers who aren’t vegans, I’d say give your claims to secular morality more thought and importance in your life, because unless you’re vegan, your claim to scientifically-informed, rational, secular morality has a blatant and indefensible absurdity to contend with. The only reason you get away with non-veganism culturally is because you live in a very prejudiced (read: irrational) society when it comes to the moral status of nonhuman animals.</div>
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight; someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. How removed from the screaming crowd around the dog pit is the laughing group around the summer steak barbecue?<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gary L. Francione</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/gary-francione-20070802.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read A Note About Michael Vick">August 2, 2007</a>)</div>
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Since becoming a Vegan, I have come to realize this. The wider you open your eyes, the darker the world becomes. No matter how hard you try, you can never close them tight enough. The truth sears an everlasting image of the suffering into your retina. From then on, you’ll eternally understand that ignoring the pain of others is truly the cruelest action we can do as conscious beings. Inaction is the plague of the world.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Bianca Nicole Valle</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/bianca-valle-20121224.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Bianca's Facebook comment">December 24, 2012</a>)</div>
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I am a “vegan zealot” in as much as I am an “anti-racist zealot,” an “anti-sexist zealot,” and an “anti-heterosexist zealot.”<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ John Tallent</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/john-tallent-20121129.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read John's Facebook comment">November 29, 2012)</a></div>
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Today is my first vegan Thanksgiving. One year ago, I had this nagging feeling that something wasn’t right. I didn’t know being vegan was a viable option. Today, I am grateful for nagging feelings, veganism, and the hope that comes from the combination of creative non-violent unequivocal vegan education and our ability to embody radical change.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Sarah K. Woodcock</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sarah-woodcock-20121122.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Sarah's Facebook comment">November 22, 2012</a>)</div>
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Slavery was legally abolished in most countries, however it is more prevalent than ever in history. There are well over 200,000 human slaves right now, and billions of nonhuman slaves. We need to abolish slavery, not only legally, but in reality. We need to raise our consciousness en mass so that no sentient individual is oppressed, enslaved and violently assaulted.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Marcia “Butterflies” Katz</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/marcia-butterflies-katz-20121106.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Marcia's Facebook comment">November 6, 2012</a>)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Becoming vegan is a courageous act. All of us at one point in our lives had an awakening. We realized that animals were being confined, tortured and murdered for our pleasure, convenience and tastes. We had to either ignore our complicity or own up to it and change our behaviors and way of life. Rather than run away from this knowledge, we made a conscious choice to remove ourselves from the cycle of violence, no matter the consequence to our personal or professional lives. Never doubt your decision to choose justice, ethics and fairness over violence.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gary Smith</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"> (</span><a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gary-smith-20121102.pdf" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #c52020; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Gary's Facebook comment">November 2, 2012</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">Contrary to what I thought before I became vegan, being vegan does not take willpower. It has nothing to do with resisting cravings, giving up things, or missing out on things. As soon as one decides, in her heart, she wants nothing to do with the exploitation of anyone especially those with less power (animals), it is easy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Sarah K. Woodcock</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"> (</span><a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/sarah-woodcock-20121101.pdf" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #c52020; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Sarah's Facebook comment">November 1, 2012</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">)</span></div>
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I often get asked, “at what point do you draw the line? At what point do you stop caring? Are you a BACTERIA Activist? Surely not.”</div>
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Well, as far as I’ve read, there would be absolutely no life on Earth at ALL if it weren’t for bacteria, so, yeah. Since I see life as a good thing. Shelley Williams the Bacteria Activist reporting for duty! <span class="wp-smiley emoji emoji-smile" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative !important; text-indent: 9999px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 1.35em;" title=":-)">:-)</span><br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Shelley Williams</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shelley-williams-20120810.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Shelley's Facebook comment">August 10, 2012</a>)</div>
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The three most difficult things about being vegan are: (1) being asked by people who consume rotting flesh and mucous whether my diet is healthy; (2) meeting an astounding number of people who are obsessed with the issue of plants feeling pain; and (3) being told by people that it must be difficult to be vegan.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gary L. Francione</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gary-francione-20120806.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Gary's Facebook comment">August 6, 2012</a>)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">One of the statements that depresses me most is when vegans who were long-time vegetarians say, “I just didn’t know.” As animal liberationists, it is our duty to make sure people know. It is our duty to speak the truth, confront injustice, [and] creatively work together to end the animal holocaust. Let’s bring the focus back to where it needs to be, on the animals.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gary Smith</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"> (</span><a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gary-smith-20120623.pdf" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #c52020; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read My interest lies in animal liberation, not making more vegans">June 23, 2012</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">)</span></div>
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I always wonder where the myth that vegans don’t like food comes from. All day long I see vegans posting pictures of rich, complex and delicious looking meals on their FB walls. Get two or more vegans into a room and the conversation quickly turns to food. Trust me, we like food. We don’t like oppression, exploitation and violence.</div>
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A staggering 46% of Americans believe that god created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years, according to a USA Today/Gallup survey conducted this year from May 10th to the 13th. Not only has that number not changed much in the past 30 years since Gallup first asked the question on Creationism vs Evolution, it’s actually gone up 2%, from 44% in 1982 to 46% in 2012!</div>
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Gallup’s Frank Newport told CNN, “Despite the many changes that have taken place in American society and culture over the past 30 years, including new discoveries in biological and social science, there has been virtually no sustained change in Americans’ views of the origins of the human species since 1982. All in all, there’s no evidence in this trend of a substantial movement toward a secular viewpoint on human origins.”</div>
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The literal belief that humans have some kind of god-given authority over every other species of animal bestows undeserved power into unreliable hands. Creationist claptrap that favors one species over another perpetuates speciesist doctrine devised to demean and control our fellow animals in the same way that notions of racial superiority were used against our fellow humans.<br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Jim Robertson</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/jim-robertson-20120603.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Into the Tar Pit of Religion">June 3, 2012</a>)</div>
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Being vegan is a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Gary L. Francione</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/gary-francione-20120513.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Some Thoughts for Mother's Day 2012">May 13, 2012</a>)</div>
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<b>All living beings are prisoners in the type body we reside in. We are actually held captive, and are at the mercy of the nature of the body we occupy. I am no different. I didn’t ask to be put inside the body of a flea, just as you didn’t ask to be put inside the body of a human being. Why are you defining me by my body, and then punishing me for it?<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Marvin Lasco</span> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/marvin-lasco-20120516.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Marvin's Facebook comment">May 16, 2012</a>)</b></div>
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Black churches also embrace a literal reading of the scripture because of its unique history, says Blum, author of “W.E.B. DuBois, American Prophet.”</div>
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During slavery and segregation, many blacks saw the Bible as the one document they could trust. The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, state and local laws—all found some way to ignore their humanity, Blum says.</div>
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The Bible, though, was one book that told them that they weren’t slaves or three-fifths of a person, Blum says.</div>
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It said they were children of God.</div>
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“Throughout the 18th and 19th century, what document could they trust?” Blum says. “When the Bible says it’s so, it’s something that black people believed they could trust.”</div>
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Their enemies, though, used that same veneration of the Bible against them. Slaveholders had a simple but powerful argument when critics challenged them: Trust the Bible.</div>
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Since the Bible is infallible, and scripture sanctions slavery, it must be part of God’s order, slaveholders concluded.</div>
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“Slavery is everywhere in the Bible,” Blum says. “When Americans who were in favor of slavery defended it with the Bible, they had a treasure trove of clear biblical passages that accepted enslavement.”</div>
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Blum says abolitionists found it difficult to mount an effective counterargument. They couldn’t just say trust the Bible. They preached another approach to scriptures.</div>
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They said you couldn’t enslave people based on the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do to you. (Obama cited the Golden Rule and his Christian faith in supporting same-sex marriage).</div>
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“The abolitionist turned to the ethics and spirit of the Bible,” Blum says. “They were theological modernists before modernism.”<br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ John Blake</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/john-blake-20120512.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Is the black church guilty of spiritual hypocrisy in same-sex marriage debate?">May 12, 2012</a>)</div>
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I believe it’s a bit more complex than belief in talking snakes, though that was pretty funny. We all know the story about the Puritans and how they came here looking for religious freedom. Do a little digging and you’ll see that’s just as big a myth as the one about the English bringing all the food to the first Thanksgiving feast as depicted in the famous painting At any rate, from what I’ve been able to discern, there’s a inextricable link between religious faith and the notion of “manifest destiny” in this country. The conquest and slaughter of Native Americans was justified by religion. The enslavement of my ancestors was justified by religion. The notion of inherent white superiority is partially rooted in a belief that God and Jesus are white like the paintings we all see every Sunday (i.e. “created in His own image”). Religion justifies and underpins everything people claim as being inherently American. The Ku Klux Klan proports itself to be a “Christian” organization. Racial segregation was partially, if not fully, based on the Bible passage in Genesis that talks about “each after his own kind”. It’s “God’s will” for the US to be a great country. “God shed His grace on thee…” You see, without religion and it’s subsequent perversions, the US wouldn’t be the country that it is. I’d venture to say that those in power early in this country’s history understood the power of religion as being a “force multiplier”. If you look back, you’ll notice a heavy dose of “righteousness” and “God” in government propaganda through the years. Over the past eight years, you’ve seen the near ultimate manifestation of this notion in how Bush used religion to push this country to the brink of disaster. There were ministers, men of God, advocating for war in their churches on Sundays prior to the Iraq invasion when “war” is the complete antithesis of what Jesus stood for. They were no better than bin Laden issuing his “fatwas”. The ultimate manifestation will be when the US president orders a nuclear strike because he/she believes it’s God’s will, especially when her home church believes her home state will be a refuge during the “End Times”.<br /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Ho Chi Daddy</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ho-chi-daddy-20080929.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Ho Chi Daddy's comment">September 29, 2008</a>)</div>
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Isn’t it strange that we can see beef every single day, and yet it’s often situations like this, that allow us to connect our food with being an actual painful DEATH for someone.</div>
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If you wouldn’t want to walk up to this corpse and take a bite, then ask yourself, why do you order it at restaurants?</div>
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It may not seem like the same thing to you, but to the animal, it sure as hell is.<br /><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Shelley Williams</strong> (<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shelley-williams-20120501.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Shelley's Facebook comment">May 1, 2012</a>)</div>
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Atheists do not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probability" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Spectrum of theistic probability">believe</a> in supreme beings commonly referred to as gods.<a href="http://quotesonslavery.org/but-veganism-is-one-thing-and-one-thing-only/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read But veganism is one thing and one thing only">Vegans</a> do not believe other-than-human animals exist merely to serve human needs. That is, vegans believe nonhuman animals exist for the same reasons we do—their own.</div>
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Is there a common bond between atheism and veganism? I believe so and I suggest it is <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doubt" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read about doubt">doubt</a>. That is, in a society such as here in the USA where “<a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/more-than-20110603.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God">more than 9 in 10 Americans continue to believe in God</a>“, doubt is at the heart of what helps turn a believer or likely believer into a non-believer.</div>
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From my perspective, the same goes for veganism. In a world where other-than-humans are routinely thought of as <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">things</em> to be bought, sold, used, and possibly even killed for mostly trivial human needs, folks who think differently are a rarity. Once again, doubt, I believe, is key to acquiring this currently uncommon worldview.</div>
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<span id="more-9799" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>So, doubt or <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skepticism" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read about skepticism">skepticism</a>, to me, is at the very core of most atheists, vegans, and other such <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/freethinker" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read about freethinkers">freethinking</a> individuals. Thus, if this is true, it is my prediction that as time goes by and we move further away from the age of faith and into the age of doubt—where challenging the status quo is seen as a <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noble" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read about noble">noble</a> act rather than an act of <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heresy" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #c52020; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read about heresy">heresy</a>—we will see a significant rise in the numbers of atheists and vegans alike. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-style: italic;">The sooner we realise we are just another animal on this planet—a very violent and destructive animal and not “the crown of creation” we have deceived ourselves into believing—then the sooner we can start to address this violence and the way to do this is for our species to become vegan. Many other problems will be addressed when veganism takes hold.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-style: italic;" /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~ Trisha Roberts</strong><span style="color: #444444; font-style: italic;"> (</span><a href="http://quotesonslaveryorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/trisha-roberts-20120104.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c52020; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Read Trisha's Facebook comment">January 4, 2012</a><span style="color: #444444; font-style: italic;">)</span></div>
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Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-7594700772561318122014-06-15T02:39:00.000-07:002014-06-15T11:24:14.041-07:00Beings are not, and never will be objects <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Non-human beings are not objects.<br />
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They are conscious sentient entities,<br />
just as humans are.<br />
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They were not born so that we could pick and choose what their body parts could be used for by us.<br />
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They do not have scales so that they can be ripped off and used in our 'medicines'. <br />
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They were not born with muscles for the mere reason that humans could eat.<br />
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No, they were born with skin, just as we were born with skin. To protect their organs and allow them to safely interact with their surroundings.<br />
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They were born with muscles, just as we were born with muscles--to move freely, experience life through movement-- allowing them to run, walk, fly, swim, find food, find water and play. <br />
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They were born with pumping hearts, as we were-- to keep the vital force of energy pumping through their bodies and to feel their surroundings through more than just by touch, sight, smell and sound; but through love, fear, joy, sadness and ecstasy. We are one. Not separate. We are among them, beings among beings. They feel fully, they seek life, they love fully, they connect to nature fully. Just as we do or attempt to do.<br />
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To eat a chicken is no different than to eat a human. To drink cows milk is no different than to impregnate a woman, take her child and demand that milk from that woman is yours. Choosing to drink cows milk, is objectifying a living being. A conscious human would never do that to a human, so why do we believe we have that right over animals? We would never kidnap people with certain pigments or genes to freeze them, chop off their body parts and use them in medicine... why do we do it to non-human animals? We would never cage humans, mutilate them with strange devices, inject them with cancers and other terrible diseases or toxic products to see how their vital organs react or how quickly they die, why do we do it to non-human animals? I know we do a lot of terrible things to humans... but if humans were to be treated like animals ... literally... factory farmed legally, and eaten by the billionth every week --- oh wait.. that would never happen.. because the bulk of humanity could never fathom to treat a human like an animal -- of course there are people who do treat humans as we treat animals today, and in no way do I support any human or animal being treated in a way that is harmful to them. <br />
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But when people claim that we do treat humans as we do animals (mostly used as a figure of speech) this is not the norm, and it's quite outside of popular opinion. The majority of people are on the same page, as to what is considered good or bad way to treat a human. (to make some broad generalizations) For example, It's generally considered good to treat other people with dignity and respect-- perhaps with the exception of people who have committed injustices (or have been believed to have). <br />
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There are some human rights issues, where there is no majority of people who have decided whether certain actions committed against other people are good or bad. For example these include issues of prejudice, difference in opportunities among different people, slander. On one hand, people want to maintain their freedom of free speech and control over qualities they see as harmful, on the other hand, those same qualities may be someone else's identity and perhaps reason for being alive. And for those people-- that may be a serious humans rights issue that others don't believe in who they are as a person and restrict them from certain aspects of culture because of it (for example gay marriage).<br />
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These types of intangible issues can take years, and lifetimes to reach a majority of people who believe certain actions are good or bad. And in no way am I downplaying the seriousness of these kinds of issues, but notice how much harder these actions are in identifying the 'bad guy', as no direct violation to a physical body has been made, such as rape, murder, kidnap, or cannibalism. Rape, murder, kidnap and cannibalism obviously bad across the board in public opinion, and any leader who disagrees with their 'badness' wouldn't be in office very long, if not arrested if any of these acts committed! Well, with one possible exception, war -- but again, this relates back to people believing that a wrongdoing had been done -- and popular opinion is all for revenge, and punishment for the most part. <br />
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There are many people passionately working on human rights issues, and mostly, these passions are met with amazing public support. <br />
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In fact, I challenge you to find someone, in a leadership position who believes that eating humans and using their body parts for furniture, decorations and jewelry is necessary and beneficial. I challenge you to find someone in a leadership position who believes that eating non human beings and using their body parts for furniture, decorations and jewelry is necessary and beneficial. Do you see the difference in the challenge. Public opinion may justify not allotting animals rights, or paying attention to the injustices we commit to animals because we have not YET perfected our treatment of HUMAN beings publicly or privately. The problem in waiting for a perfect world before allotting all beings decency and morality, is that, that day may never come. However, we ALL have the opportunity to modify our behaviors to help non human animals who are completely objectified and have been for generations. Who have been completely denied any and all rights to a full and sovereign life. <br />
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Now the majority of people do not believe that rape, murder, torture or mutilation are good things, and in fact believe them to be punishable by law. Then why do the majority of people support industries, that rape, murder, torture and mutilate on a regular basis? The difference is, non human beings, are somehow viewed as objects. Not intelligent, feeling, creatures, who have the same capacity if not more of a capacity to love and feel than humans.<br />
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And it's done, every single day, every single minute, every single choice, by the majority of human beings on planet earth, in the name of 'ignorance', 'god', 'tradition','custom', 'culture', 'protein', 'strength', 'health', 'comfort', 'greed', 'money', 'control', 'power', 'love', 'fun', 'taste' and perhaps most of all 'fear of change' and 'fear of what others might think or say'... and it's not okay. If you encountered a whole society who devoured human beings and claimed that it was tradition, and there was no other way to get 'protein', plus they didn't think they could live without the taste, how would those responses make you feel?<br />
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I encounter many people who find vegans or plant eaters extreme, defensive, rude, out of sorts -- well the moment that you understand how deeply animals feel, and the moment you connect with a cat, a dog, a monkey, a cow, a pig, a spider, as an equal. That actually you have no memory of before you were in the body that you were.. and actually.. what difference does it make that only the body is different from that pig, from that dog, from that child. You would probably be defensive too. I mean, maybe it is hard to imagine, but if you came across a society of people who loved to eat children and people were ridiculing you for not eating children -- it would be odd for there to be no emotional response. Correct? Most plant based eaters tend to go through phases, of acceptance of mainstream society, which supports the brutal treatment of our fellow earth companions, and complete distaste for it. And that's okay because, I think all humans have experienced those feelings at one point or another in their lifetimes -- numbness to what hurts, and motivation to do something about it. We tend to villianize those who seem passionate about things we don't understand. But actually their passion didn't sprout from empty clouds -- but real real pain that they feel in their hearts. And it has nothing to do with you. It's grief and sadness that is pouring from them in desperation. As I am certainly not immune from. Watch a factory farm video, and I dare you to pretend that all the beings you see being abused are humans. How do you feel? It's gut wrenching. And it's okay to feel. It needs to be felt. <br />
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Humans = animals = beings = sentient = equal participants of planet earth worthy of dignity, respect and love. <br />
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If we truly are the 'higher' beings of planet Earth, we would wholeheartedly accept non human animals as our brothers and our sisters. We would whole heartedly love the gifts they bring as they do when they are alive, happy and undisturbed by us. <br />
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Some people may say this goes against nature itself, because nature is destructive, brutal and competitive, and wild animals eat each other all of the time. <br />
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The difference between wild animals our humans, is that wild animals hunt other animals under fair terms. Wild animals only have a catch rate of about 30%. They typically will eat the entire animal, raw and even rotted. Wild animals prey on the sick and the weak -- actually supporting the populations they take from. They do not imprison their prey, genetically engineer their prey to better suit their needs, they do not kill their prey for one or two body parts they find 'useful', they do not rape their prey, they do not kidnap children of their prey so they can nurse their prey, they do not kill their prey with anything other than their own mouths and claws -- completely intertwined with the death and life of that animal.<br />
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Human beings have a catch rate of about 100%, not only that but any predator that dares take a non human animal that supposedly 'belongs' to (enslaved by) humans, will be rounded up and destroyed. As well as their habitat. There is absolutely no compassion in human blood consumption habits today. Human beings are animals, however they are so disconnected from ecosystems, that the only way to restore integrity in the human heart is to eliminate animal products all together. <br />
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In addition to the fact that human beings don't even need animal products to be healthy. It would be equivalent to a cow or an elephant -- who made the same statement -- but nature is violent-- therefore we need to be violent and only begin eating meat. They are herbivores -- they don't have the evolutionary wiring to skillfully and sustainably live off of meat -- not for the environment, and certainly not inside of their gut. Cows are often fed fish products and left over cow and chicken products. These foods for a cow -- can keep the cow alive-- however they aren't healthy for the cow, the will have a weaker immune system, may get mad cow disease, and have much higher rates of ecoli and other harmful bacteria and viruses in it's gut. It will probably experience a shortened life span and multiple heath issues. <br />
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This is the same with humans, <a href="http://www.peta.org/living/food/natural-human-diet/">humans are actually herbivores, despite what the media has told us, and despite what generations before us, have survived off of. </a> In fact animal products are to blame for heart disease, high cholesterol, heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and much of the cancers and obesity rates. Don't believe me, try a raw plant based diet for yourself, or suggest it to a loved one with health dilemmas. The transformation that follows these changes, do record, because they can be shocking, even for those who are very familiar with the health benefits of plant foods. <br />
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I pray to see the world, where all beings, recognize the unmistakable beautiful divine in all beings and non-beings, no exception, completely worthy of honor, acceptance and protection to be. </div>
Esther Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04343313512638182701noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8063120609589938970.post-73497842227453195402014-05-30T22:17:00.002-07:002014-05-30T22:17:58.965-07:00Kombucha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Tonight my friend gifted me a kombucha mother. I have never made kombucha before, so it's a whole new world!</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">I looked online for recipes, and this is what I ended up doing:</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step one. Find 1/2 gallon jar. </span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step two. Boil 1/2 gallon worth of water</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step three. Use 4 teabags or 4 tsp of loose tea and 1/2 cup of sugar (I used a mixture of herbs -- alfalfa, spearmint and calendula)</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step four. Let the tea dissolve the sugar and sit with the herbs until the water cools.</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step five. Once the tea is cool pour into half gallon jar</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step six. Add 1/2 cup of the kombucha liquid to the jar</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step seven. Add the mother to the jar. </span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step eight. Cover with a cloth and an elastic and let sit for two weeks</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">Step nine. Try it :)</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;">For more tips:</span><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><br style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px;" /><a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-kombucha-tea-at-home-173858" style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #aa0033; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.735000610351563px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-kombucha-tea-at-home-173858</a></div>
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