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Ultimate Betrayal – 7 September 2008

Today I’m writing about a few thoughts that occurred to me after reading the poem “Our Lord’s Compassion” (see yesterday’s Blog):

How can people say that they are “believers” who love God and at the same time go against the original intent (Genesis 1:29) and will of God by being complicit in the torture and murder of billions of God’s creatures? No matter how they try to excuse their actions, (for instance: that they aren’t doing the actual slaughter; that they buy “humane” animal products…ad nauseam), it’s obvious that they are doing the work of Satan, the enemy of God. When you stop to think about it, their complicity, no matter what form it takes, keeps the exploiters in business. This is not only betrayal of the other animals with whom we share this planet, but the ultimate betrayal: the betrayal of God!

1 John 2:15-17 plainly says:

15 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

17 And the world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
NASB

With such a huge variety of cruelty-free, nutritious and delicious foods available today, it is foolish to continue eating animal products. For the sake of the health of humans, other animals, and the earth there is one way to go: Vegan!

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OUR LORD’S COMPASSION – 6 September 2008

I found this thought-provoking poem in the Autumn 2008 issue of The Ark: Journal of Catholic Concern for Animals:

OUR LORD’S COMPASSION
Author Unknown

Every beast in every cage,
Forlornly gazing through the bars,
Records its suffering on the page
Of God’s Great Book beyond the stars.

Every cat, or deer, or cow
Wailing for her newly born,
Brings the sweat drops to the brow
Of One who watched His Mother mourn.

Every burdened beast in pain,
Every blow on aching limb
Of horse or ass is struck again
Each bloody stripe that wounded Him.

All the pain His creatures bear,
Every yelp or groan or mew
In compassion He must share.
Oh, my God, how can we dare
So to goad and torture You?

For a large collection of poems and stories, visit:
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Coyotes – 5 September 2008

I’m happy to see that Hope Ryden’s wonderful book God’s Dog: A Celebration of the North American Coyote is back in print.

The way coyotes are used as bait to train hunting dogs should most definitely be declared criminal behavior. And that’s putting it mildly! If you have any doubt that evil is rampant in this fallen world, realizing what humans do to these creatures of God will convince you of the truth: Satan is indeed the “ruler of the world,” as Jesus says in John 14:30.

“Coyotes are not fighters. They have all kinds of body and vocal signals that they use with each other to keep from getting into fights.”

But when they’re turned loose in the dog running pens and the dogs take them to the ground, the signals the coyotes give are ignored by the dogs.

“By now there are three or four dogs tearing her [female coyote] apart. If she is pregnant her babies get ripped out. She is losing blood and the pain is horrible. The last sound she hears is the sound of humans laughing and egging on the dogs to tear her apart.”

– From CeAnn Lambert’s article “Coyotes Used As Bait To Train Hunting Dogs” published in The C.A.S.H. Courier (The Committee To Abolish Sport Hunting), Summer 2008. Please visit www.coyoterescue.org 

My closing comment: Many of these sociopathic human hunters would describe themselves as “pro-life” and claim to be against the abortion of human unborn babies. Yet look at the extreme evil that they enjoy inflicting on God’s other creations!

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If you are really “pro-life,” prove it by going Vegan!

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World Hunger – 4 September 2008

It seems like everywhere you turn you hear about world hunger, but very few people mention the obvious solution: utilize crops to provide food directly for people and not to feed animals who are then killed to provide food for relatively few humans while millions of others go hungry and/or starve. In other words, Go Vegan!

Here are a few facts about the cause of the increase in world hunger:

“The world’s exploding human population, combined with its sagging ability to feed itself, appear to be on a collision course. The Green Revolution, which facilitated much of the recent growth, has clearly stalled out. Indeed, cereal availability per capita has been declining since 1984, and the “promise” of biotech is far from certain or free of risk. Today, 70 percent of grain in the U.S. and 43 percent of grain worldwide lavishly go to feed livestock. And just as the world clamors for more grain to feed to animals, so people can eat them, per capita world cropland declined by 20 percent in the 1990’s alone. The World Health Organization says 800 million people in the world live with chronic hunger. More meat production is definitely not the answer.”
– From “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian” by Pamela Rice
www.vivavegie.org/itoc 

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Words of Wisdom – 3 September 2008

Today’s first quotation is from Holly Cheever, a veterinarian whose excellent lectures we enjoy so much.

“We should give all animals the benefit of the doubt that they are fully sentient, even if our senses are too dull to appreciate fully their intelligence.”
– Holly Cheever, DVM

“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.”
– Leo Tolstoy

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THE CLEANEST THING IN CREATION – 2 September 2008

For today I’ve chosen a poem by the Modern Greek poet Nikiphóros Vrettákos as translated by Kimon Friar in Modern Greek Poetry:

THE CLEANEST THING IN CREATION
By Nikiphóros Vrettákos

I’m not sure, but a smudge of darkness has remained.
The sun has poured into me through a thousand wounds.
And this whiteness with which I surround you now
you will not find even in the Alps, because this wind
swirls to that great height and dirties the snow.
You will find a trace of dust even on the white rose.
The perfect miracle may be found only in man:
vast stretches of whiteness that radiate truthfully
throughout the universe and are superior. The cleanest thing
in creation, therefore, is not the twilight,
nor the sky reflected in the river, nor
the sun on apple blossoms. It is love.

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Labor Day – 1 September 2008

Well, it’s Labor Day again. Yet there is no rest where farmed animals are concerned. It’s cruelty as usual in the slaughterhouses where, round the clock, billions of animals have their lives of misery curtailed in unimaginable suffering.

Unfortunately, for most people holidays provide one more excuse for feasting on the tortured remains of God’s creatures. And what’s even worse (if that’s possible!) is the deliberate deception of those who claim that the Creator approves of such abominations, and who lead astray those seeking the truth. It’s only a matter of “authorities” who are simply sociopaths/psychopaths trying to convert more to their psychopathology, in order to convince themselves that they are okay.

But there is a day of reckoning for everyone, no matter how hard they try to distort God’s Word. And the way the world continues to head downward, that day may not be far off.

The root of the problem lies in the cruelty with which humans treat the “least among us.” The solution? Go Vegan!

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"Joyful Curmudgeon"
An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it, so that we may have true peace and compassion.

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