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evnironmental vegan
mon 4 Aug 2008 |
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Permalink: http://www.static8.com/journal/archive2008/080804.html |
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Sadly, even radical environmentalists just don't understand our responsibility to our fellow earthlings. An article in the current Earth First! Journal: Human Diet and Its Effects on Natural Ecosystems "Herbivore Because I Give a Shit" by Gedden Cascadia, covers many of the environmental bases. And yet one of the commenters is a person who supports direct action but is, shall we say, "anti-vegan". Apparently animals are not part of the environment, in his/her world. 10 billion land animals tortured and killed every year in the US alone, hundreds of billions of ocean animals are killed every year (including about 1,000 marine mammals every day). Do you know what 1 billion is? One billion seconds is almost 32 years. One billion minutes is about 1,900 years. One billion inches is more than half-way around the world, and one billion meters will get you to the moon, and back, and practically to the moon again. Killing hundreds of billions of animals in the ocean. Trawling is even worse than clear cutting forests and takes out thousands of miles of ocean floor ecosystems. Run off from land factory farming and fish factory farming poisons the water and creates dead zones which get bigger every year. Ocean ecosystems are decimated due to our animal-eating ways (to say nothing of our plastic-using ways). The Ocean will be completely dead within our lifetime. Why would anyone who cares about the environment want to be a part of that? You care, right? Stop eating fish! Stop using animals for food! Go Vegan! |
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Grocery Run
Tues 19 Aug 2008 | ||||||
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The Midweek Munchies was a veg*n (vegetarian and vegan) meme for women that was pretty stong back in 2006. Then the owner, Harmonia, had to step back from the Internet so she handed the meme over to me. And I did absolutely nothing with it! haha. But now that I'm looking at it again, I think I'll change it to vegan (instead of veg*n), update the homepage and clear out the guestlist. Start fresh, you know.
Get the Midweek Munchies
code! PURPOSE of Midweek Munchies: Put
together by a small group of Veg women, we hope to spread the word
about healthy veganism while obtaining idea starters for meals,
recipes, learn about new products, and meet other vegan
bloggers. Visiting and commenting on other participants lists are
encouraged but not required. | ||||||
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5 Year Vegan
Sat 23 Aug 2008 |
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My vegan-ness is the most important part of who I am. "Vegan" is one of the first words I use to describe myself: I'm vegan, I read and I keep a journal. That's me. My vegan-ness is a reflection of my love of animals, especially chickens and pigs and cows and fishes. It's also a reflection of my love of the earth and nature and the ocean and wildness. Being vegan has brought some wonderful things into my life. Not just wonderful food, but wonderful people as well! My life is enriched by being vegan. Yay Vegan! |
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Paper Journal
fri 29 Aug 2008 | ||
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I'm very much enjoying the loose leaf writing. I can use my coloured paper, I can print up some lines or grids, print backgrounds, print articles and emails... Well, etc! I usually end up with around 30 sheets that I've journaled on during the month. And with the rest of my printed stuff, there's around 40 or 50 sheets total. I make a journal cover from photos I've taken during the month, print that on cardstock. That's covered with a clear plastic sheet and I bind the whole thing with ½inch o-wires:
I've been re-reading Kathleen Adams' book Journal to the Self and I remembered how much I enjoy Lists of 100. I've written several lists. My most recent list is "100 Reasons Not to Get a Job". heh, of course there's only one reason why I should get a job, a list of one: money. humph. One time I wanted to do a List of 100 Animals, except I was going to draw them all. I was going to draw tiny animals, about the size of a thumb print. and I figured it would be easy to come up with animals by going through the alphabet about four times. I think I quit around 30 because the drawings were getting bigger and bigger and more complex and complicated. My flamingo was about three inches tall... You know what? I do that a lot with my projects. Make things more complicated than they have to be. And then quit.
By Request... a close up of the "self portrait" scribble above:
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