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Louisiana has animal protection laws but the DA and Police refuse to act on this admitted dog beater

2016-02-17T16:05:00.000-08:00

Here are some statues on animal cruelty in Louisiana. It seems to me it is the duty of the DA or police to investigate this case. it is an admitted dog beating case. https://www.animallaw.info/statute/la-cruelty-consolidated-cruelty-statutes
If the police does not investigate make an arrest and if the DA does not act they all could be breaking this statute which clearly states "failure to act" which if results in more cruelty it would be legally on their hands as well. § 102. Definitions; cruelty to animals The following words, phrases, and terms as used in R.S. 14:102.1 through R.S. 14:102.4 shall be defined and construed as follows: (1) "Cruel" means every act or failure to act whereby unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted.

The sickness of Killing

2015-12-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

On this Christmas Season I want my American Friends, Democrats, Republicans, Non Political people, Religious, non religious, everyone really, to think about this for a minute with an open mind.

ABORTION.

I am against abortion because I find it one of the most unnatural acts to do.
I thought about that a lot. To kill once own blood before it is born. Very unnatural I think. I do not think that most women that are getting the abortion, would NOT do it, were they fully aware of the profoundness of the act and if they had a non judgmental support system.

I honestly do not know the answer to get people to stop killing their unborn children. I do not know how to do that.

I do not know how to get people to stop killing anything, period. It seems that killing in general is just a common thing these days. Much Killing is done without remorse. Just another day and we move on. There is always an excuse.

Women do not want to see their aborted babies. Just don't show her the broken bodies that may cause her to think what she really agreed to. Why is that? If it is Ok then why not look at what it looks like? Is it because deep down we know if she saw the ten fingers, ten toes, two arms, the head, the eyes, the nose and the hair, that it would be heart wrenching and conscious stirring? That she may say "What have I done? Never again!"

I don't judge these women. I do question the system. I think they are desperate, many of them at least. I think they are misguided, lied to, and they don't see any help, they are overwhelmed and then there are those that just use abortion as a form of birth control.

To me it is all very, very sad. Killing of babies, killing of animals killing of people, and especially killing of babies. Killing of the innocent is such bad karma.

Everywhere there is blood letting, we are saturated with it. Will things change eventually? The heart of men are cold these days cruelty is everywhere. But there is much good too. I try to remember that.

Politically what do we do? I honestly don't know. Those people that are part of the machine that keeps promoting this, are most culpable. They profit from it, they are in my humble opinion.... evil.
Their worship of money overrides any and all moral or ethical critical thinking.

It is easy to judge the women, tell them they shouldn't and what monsters they are, but they (most anyway) don't see an alternative and it is so easy like getting a flu shot.

All they know is, another mouth to feed and no money. Maybe they shouldn't have sex because sex is what leads to pregnancy. There is too much sex I think anyhow. Too little love and too much sex. But people keep having unprotected sex, they get pregnant and then they abort. Like tossing out an old head of lettuce from the fridge. Do they even realize what it is they are doing?

We talk about helping the poor in other countries, we go fight wars for the supposed betterment of other countries, who don't even want us there but we don't see the need here in the Homeland. I can't even get angry anymore. Just profoundly sad.

Families are broken, fathers are missing, mothers are aborting, no jobs, but someone is profiting from the torn babies, the broken bodies, the limbs lying around, highest bidder takes all.

The problem is terrible. Because of abortion the birth rate has shrunk and our society is shrinking with it. Ethically, morally and demographically we are shrinking.

Like I said I am not a card carrying Christian. I don't say I don't believe that there may be a greater power, I haven't seen any evidence. I do have an ethical compass and the needle is just flipping all over. Ethical north is lost, it seems that way.

New COK video exposes birds buried alive. CNN breaks the story

2014-06-30T17:58:00.000-07:00

New COK video exposes birds buried alive. CNN breaks the story via @ErinBurnett - http://t.co/RMHpRjHnpo - Pls RT: pic.twitter.com/rytWJ05rqt
— Compassion (@TryVeg) June 26, 2014

Georgia State Senate: OPPOSE HB 423!

2014-03-15T15:43:00.000-07:00

Post by Ginette Callaway.

The great Leonardo Da Vinci ahead of his and our time.

2014-03-15T15:39:00.000-07:00

Post by Ginette Callaway.

Get Any one of my paintings for FREE No strings attached - when you give this Dog a NEW Home

2014-02-18T09:19:00.001-08:00

Get Any one of my paintings for FREE No strings attached - when you give this Dog a NEW Home

Award Winning Documentary "The Peaceable Kingdom"

2013-12-21T11:20:00.000-08:00

Award Winning Documentary
"The Peaceable Kingdom"

http://www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org/

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Jackie McConnell of Collierville, Tennessee is a sadist. Watch what he does and see so for yourself. This is a dangerous man.

2013-07-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Tennessee Walking Horses are tortured to walk this silly, ridiculous stilt walk.
NO HORSE WALKS LIKE THIS naturally.
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They have been tortured to do this for as long as I live and anyone who did not know this lives in lala land. This is not a trainer this is a torturer.

He would fit right in the old south slave days whipping slaves. He is a sadist and needs to be prosecuted or have an accident.

Jackie McConnell of Collierville, Tennessee is a sadist.

Tennessee lawmakers where is your conscience. Your State allowing this is disgusting! People who go an watch these Walking Horse shows, open your eyes, get educated. Don't participate! Don't enable this.

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Jackie McConnell of Collierville, Tennessee is a sadist

When animals are bred and "trained" for profit humans will always end up abusing them in lesser or higher degree. This is exposing this particular abuse. Hopefully more will follow. Thank you ABC for exposing this. More please!

I urge people not to patronize any events that is sponsored and for profit. Including aquariums, circuses, Rodeos and anything that has making money using animals as a goal.

It's all barbaric and the dark side of the abuses are hidden. Also do not buy pets from breeder there are millions of animals in shelters. 8 millions euthanized every year. Stop animal abuse by how and where you spend your money.

Putting a face on kindness People that save animals sacrificing a lot in the name of compassion

2013-06-06T10:31:00.001-07:00

We're going to have a series we'll call "Putting a Face on Kindness"!

All over this country and all over the world people are sacrificing life and limb, money, comfort and their health in order to help suffering, neglected and hurt animals, of a different kind. These are four legged, winged, fur or feathered, scaled of finned, pawed or huffed, they come in all sizes shapes and species. They all have something very basic in common with us the Human species. Something we all can relate to.

They all feel pain, they can suffer as we do, they can starve, be thirsty, be lonely, suffocating, agonize and in short they all are LIVING Beings worthy of their lives.

So these exceptional humans, take on the responsibility that many of us don't or won't for many reasons. Some of us can't, not to extend that these people do. But we all CAN do something.

If we have wealth we CAN give money. This money helps to buy food, keep clean shelters, pay for veterinary care, and many incidentals, rent, communications any cost associated with running an operation like a sanctuary.

Some of us don't have much money but maybe we have time, we can volunteer, if we have computer skills we can help to promote those organizations, that do most good. If we know a local sanctuary we can volunteer with labor. We can recruit other volunteers.
If we don't think we can do any of these we can still do something.

We can get our pets spayed and neutered, get pets from shelters instead of breeders.
Not purchase fur and leather products that create a market that ends up harming animal.

In our way of life, if not immediately, but maybe slowly but surely go in to a plant based lifestyle and chose our food, clothing and toiletries and cosmetics, based on the "compassion FOR ALL principle."
See what the "Leaping Bunny" program is.

There are many things we can do and believe me when we do them, "They make us feel very good!" There is no better feeling in the world then saving a life, human or animal, saving it, directly or indirectly, a life is a life and saving one and seeing the results, it hits us very deep, where the happy tears live.

I know from personal experience.

With that being said I want you to meet

Terry DeGaw
the heart and soul of "Serenity Springs Animal Sanctuary"

In this first "Putting a Face on Kindness" I wanted to feature her, because this is a face of kindness.

From what I read and personally know about taking care of many animals on a daily bases, her schedule is hard, the work is hard and she is not the youngest, but she toils away every day for these animals. Self sacrifice has a face.
I hope this feature will help to raise some funds for her sanctuary.

Serenity Springs Sanctuary in located at:
2162 Merritt Road
Forestburg, TX 76239
(940) 964-2318

Facebook Pages for Terry and Serenity Springs

Learn about the Animals on this sanctuary
http://www.serenityspringssanctuary.org/animals/

Terry says this:

Mission Statement

Serenity Springs Sanctuary is a non-profit, "no-kill", 501(c)(3) tax-exempt facility dedicated to the rescue of potbellied pigs and other porcine. The Sanctuary's efforts are not confined to pigs. Other species including horses, goats, dogs, cats, fowl and any others needing sanctuary are welcome, as long as there are room and finances to assure the very best of care. No animal will be euthanized unless there is a terminal illness or mortal injury. All reasonable measures will be taken prior to making this decision. Breeding is not condoned or practiced by the sanctuary. All males are neutered and females are spayed if appropriate.

I do not "own" the animals. I am put here to be their "guardian"

I say please support her efforts and help to make the lives of all these wonderful beings easier by donating what you can today~

San Antonio Texas Justice for George - Please help find these killers - Fundraising Auction

2013-06-01T09:16:00.000-07:00

Justice for George!

A beloved friendly Duck was attacked in her sleep and tortured and murdered by two punks in San Antonio Texas. Please help to find them. There is a Facebook page with all the info and updates on this case:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-George/563098417068678

The story about George is not just a story about one Duck. It's the story about the decay of humanity. A story about the apathy and slow creeping fungus called cruelty to helpless individuals, from animals, to children to the elderly the most vulnerable individuals of our society. We can't accept this decay of humanity. If we want to protect humanity, we must protect the most vulnerable. Because when we become so desensitized that we just chalk this off as a prank, we are lowering the bar and eventually there will be no bar left.

George was a friendly well loved Duck in the River Walk district of San Antonio Texas. George was a she. She loved everyone. She nipped on people legs to ask for food. People fed her Tortilla chips. She spent her days by the river walk and slept at a spot on the walk. Until the night of May 29th, when two men crept up on the sleeping George, stomped her, strangled her and just for fun murdered her. Then they calmly walked by the Restaurant where they appeared briefly on the camera, holding George by her neck and further down they threw her in the river.

You may say “But it’s just a duck, why the fuzz!” The fuzz is that this is symbolic of something deeper that is happening in our society. A steady decline in compassion. A steady increase of dismissal of animal cruelty and slow to no progress in prosecuting acts like this. This Being felt the horror, the pain attacked in her sleep, and she suffered just like we do. She trusted people and that is what she got in return.

It’s no secret that people that do this have probably done this before, to other animals, or to other children, or adults, they are probably bullies. They usually progress into acts against their own species. They may, if not found, one day work as a little league coach, or in a hospital as a nurse, become a police officer, or live next to you as a “nice” neighbor that everyone will be so shocked about when they learn he is a serial killer or child molester.

Take a good look at these image and contact San Antonio Police if you know the whereabouts of these individuals. There is an award of $600 dollars for anyone that gives evidence that will lead to the arrest and conviction of these individuals.
The lead agency investigating this is San Antonio Animal are Services, you may also call them.

Animal Care Services

Address: 4710 Texas 151, San Antonio, TX 78227

Phone:(210) 207-6650

Hours:

Saturday hours 11:00 am–5:00 pm
That is why each and every one of us must take a firm stand against animal cruelty and get involved in some way.
The original painting for this is up for auction all proceeds after taxes will go toward an award fund to find the perpetrators of this heinous crime.
EBAY Auction for the Original Painting of George
http://www.ebay.com/itm/380652508438?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Help end the practice of raping animals and animal brothels

2013-05-30T08:07:00.003-07:00

This is more pervasive then I ever thought possible.
I am shocked to learn that there are countries where animal rape is legal. OMG Really.

Where those that rape animal argue it's a RIGHT!

it is high time to extend RIGHTS to animal.
They are living feeling beings just like us and the notion that we can just do with them as we please because under the law right now they are considered just Property is abhorrent.

We are not civilised until we make the decision to give rights to animal.
Simple rights of not being hurt, raped, beaten used and tormented are rights that belong to all living beings regardless of their species.
We have no right to say otherwise, no more than if an alien species came on to earth they had a right to do with us as they pleased. We would not like that.

Every one has a responsibility to do something to end animal abuse.
if you don't do something you're an enabler.

Learn about it and get involved in stopping it.
It's about what kind of world you want your children to inherit and doing the rigth thing now.
Click below

Animal rape and animal brothels

two topics nobody wants to hear, read or even know about!

Smithfield is one of the most disgusting corporations next to Monsanto.

2013-05-29T15:39:00.001-07:00

Smithfield is a company with a black, rotten, putrid heart.
They neither care about the animals nor about the people .
They ONLY CARE About PROFIT.

UFCW & Paula Dean

In the Spring of 2007, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) attempted to get celebrity chef Paula Deen to sever her ties with Smithfield. Ms. Dean had been a paid spokesperson since the Fall of 2006 and is the first personality to become entangled in a union dispute. During a sold out book tour in New York City in April, approximately two dozen people supporting the unionization of the huge Tar Heel, NC plant, held a prayer vigil out side of the Museum of Natural History. As she responded to audience questions, a union member tried to speak and deliver a letter. Leila McDowell and former Smithfield employee Lenore Bailey were ushered out. According to a news release from Ms. Dean:

“Now, I’m not an expert on the union situation but here’s what I do know: I know the folks at Smithfield care about their employees and work hard to support the communities where they live, work and raise their families.”

After the incident, the North Carolina Council of Churches sent a letter to Ms. Dean describing conditions at the plant. The letter included a report based on data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). According to the data, worker injuries were up 200 percent since 2003. The company claimed its injury rate was no different from the industry average. The union vowed to continue demonstrating at Ms. Dean's book tours, on a larger scale.[5" from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods

From the http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/28/415371/-Hey-Y-all-Boycott-Paula-Deen-and-Smithfield-Ham
"Although I only caught the last few minutes, what I heard was Diane questioning Paula about conditions at the Smithfield Packing factory in Tarheel, North Carolina. Paula Deen is a paid spokesperson for Smithfield, promoting their product at every appearance she makes.

They kill more than 30 million pigs a year.
http://www.peta.org/features/smithfield.aspx
At Smithfield, female pigs endure constant cycles of forced pregnancy. Newborn piglets are taken from their mothers after just a few weeks. They have their teeth clipped in half, their tails cut off, and their ears mutilated, and the males have their testicles ripped out—all without any painkillers.

Read this Smithfield profile...
an eye opener PDF File on Smithfield

http://fairfoodfight.com/2010/12/16/animal-abuse-at-smithfield-foods/

PROFIT trumps, goodness,kindness, humanness, ethics all of those get kicked and stabbed and beaten just like the animals, Smithfield simply see as nothing but a commodity and to increase profits Smithfield now sells to a Chinese Prepossessing Factory

I'm already Vegan "THANK You Grandma for giving me a good heart and common sense and teaching me to follow that good heart". So I don't eat PORK. If nobody ate pork, there wouldn't be any cruelty to pigs and BTW many people would live healthier and better lives without eating meat and all that fat that comes with it.

But it seems, it takes most people a long long time to come around and get on a plant based lifestyle.
Common now join... go Vegan! YOU CAN DO IT!

Smithfield Brand

FYI
Smithfield Farm products sold under these brand names:

Aoste
Armour®
Basse's Choice
Big 8's®
Bistro
Campofrío
Carando®
Casa Taraneasca
Cochonou
Comtim
Cook's®
Cumberland Gap®
Curly's Foods®
Del Mare
Dinner Bell®
E-Z-Cut Hams
Eckrich®
El Miño
Ember Farms®
Esskay
Farmland®
Farmstead®
Flavoré®
Genuine Smithfield Ham
Great
Gwaltney®
Healthy Ones®
Higüeral
Hunter®
Jean Caby
John Morrell®
John Morrell Off the Bone
Justin Bridou®
Krakus®
Kretschmar Deli®
Krey®
La Abuelita™
Lunchmakers
Lundy's
Lykes®
Marcassou
Margherita®
Mayrose®
Mazury®
Milano's Italian Grille
Morliny
Mosey's Corned Beef
Nobre
Norson
Olde Kentucky
Party Dipper®
Patrick Cudahy™
Paula Deen Collection
Pavone®
Peyton's
Premium Standard Farms®
Pure Farms®
Quick-N-Easy®
Rath Black Hawk
Ready Crisp
Realean®
Riojano®
Rip-n-Dip®
Rodeo®
Simply Natural
Sizzle & Serve®
Smithfield®
Smithfield Marketplace
Smithfield Self Basting
Smithfield Tender 'n Easy
Stadler's Country Ham®
Stefano's
Stegeman®
Sunnyland®
The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg®
Tobin's First Prize®
Valleydale®
Weight Watchers
Yano

Environmental issues

Smithfield churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in the history of the EPA. The company slaughters approximately 27 million hogs per year, each hog with a slaugter weight 50% heavier than a person. The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs per year is roughly to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
Smithfield actually faces a more difficult challenge even than transforming the populations of America's 32 largest cities into packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human beings. The 500,000 pigs in a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter every year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. Best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year (enough to fill four Yankee Stadiums.) Even when divided among the many small units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, this is not a containable amount. ^{[20]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods}

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/smithfield-pork-pigs-abuse-humane-society_n_798310.html

H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1898977,00.html#ixzz2Uiu7uKqP
Trunnell's petition seeks to investigate claims that the H1N1 outbreak began in Smithfield's massive pork operation in La Gloria and that the virus may have been caused in part by the conditions under which the farm operates, which the petition terms "horrifically unsanitary."

Smithfield Farm Pictures of Mexio facilities

The famous pig shit lakes that bred the Swine Flu. The lakes are full of pig blood, pig shit, rotting dead pigs and other charming and delectable items. Note broken pipe. The smell from these lakes is so horrible that workers are sometimes overcome, pass out, and fall into the pig shit lake. Those who dive in to save them almost always die too. It sometimes takes weeks to fish the bodies out. SOURCE
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/

Comments from Mark
" Smithfield is the largest hog producer in the world and controls almost 30% of the U.S. pork market. Smithfield’s style of industrial pork production is now a major source of air pollution and probably the largest source of water pollution in America. Smithfield and its cronies have driven tens of thousands of family farmers off the land, shattered rural communities, poisoned thousands of miles of American waterways, killed billions of fish, put thousands of fishermen out of work, sickened rural residents and treated hundreds of millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty." Read more
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/

Dead pigs left out in the heat to rot. Scavengers have been feeding on these pigs.

Listen folks the writing has been on the wall for decades now, you can't say you don't know.

If you like to see how you can enter in to a healthy compassionate Vegan Life Check out this Vegan Outreach it's a good start. http://www.veganoutreach.org/
We are a growing number of people. JOIN us for Love Sake!

America's addictions, Meat, Dairy, Eggs, Sugar & Cocain

While Children are starving we feed precious GRAIN to animals so our fat nation can continue this grotesque lifestyle of eating meat, dairy and eggs, add the refined sugar and and it all becomes unbearably sickening.
A VEGAN world is inevitable if we want to save the environment and create enough to eat and healthy food for everyone!

Go Vegan Today!

Monsanto and the Bee Extermination Connection. Who killed the Honey Bee?

2013-05-26T20:33:00.000-07:00

Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.

Read full story...
http://worldtruth.tv/blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm/

List of crops pollinated by Bees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees

(NaturalNews) It`s a troubling and little-known fact. Today`s beekeepers use herbicides, fungicides and insecticides in and around beehives. They say they have no choice. Honeybees increasingly suffer from disease and parasites, forcing their keepers to fight back with powerful chemicals. But modern beekeeping practices put severe stress on honeybees, possibly causing this weakened resistance to diseases and parasites in the first place. These practices include unnatural feed, migratory beekeeping, artificial insemination, and chemical treatments. In part one of this series we`ll look at the first two practices.

Unnatural Feed.
The only natural foods for honeybees come from the nectars and pollens they collect. These foods contain vital nutrients that optimize the health of these tiny insects. Bees carefully vary their own diets, flying farther to find different blooms if large amounts of nectar have been gathered from one type of plant. But today`s beekeepers commonly feed their honeybees artificial syrups and patties made out of high fructose corn syrup (HFC). Unlike the range of fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals found in pollen and nectar HFC is devoid of any real nutrition.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/028055_honeybees_colony_collapse_disorder.html#ixzz2USeaxtYl

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/028055_honeybees_colony_collapse_disorder.html#ixzz2USeNJjpn

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Ag gag veto - Poached Prostate - Arsenic in Poultry - Explosions on Pig farms

2013-05-23T07:35:00.004-07:00

			Ag-Gag Veto In a victory for farmed animals, both in Tennessee and nationwide, Tennessee governor Haslam vetoed the state’s ag-gag bill. Learn more.

			Poached Prostate A new study conducted by researchers at Harvard has revealed a startling link between egg consumption and prostate cancer. Get informed.

			Winning the War A fantastic article in the Village Voice rips big agribusiness for its blatant attempts to silence whistleblowers and animal activists. Check it out.

			Free to Be Join Bob Barker, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Sam Simon, and other stars as we celebrate MFA’s victories for farmed animals at unforgettable events in Los Angeles and New York this June. Buy tickets!

			Poisoned Poultry Arsenic-based drugs given to chickens on farms have raised fears over adverse health effects in humans, ranging from heart disease to diabetes. Find out more.

			Fecal Foam A mysterious, foam-like substance has been discovered on pig farms, bubbling out of manure pits and leading to dangerous explosions. Get all the details.

Gary Francione explains brillantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.

2013-05-18T08:41:00.000-07:00

Gary Francione explains brilliantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.

Botanical Art by Ginette Callaway

2013-05-17T12:54:00.004-07:00

Ginette says: "Plants and especially medicinal plants have been an interest of mine ever since I worded in the Pharmaceutical industry. I learned that just about all medicines are derived from the chemical/molecular structure of plants. From poppies to Acorns, Dandelions and Yarrow the plant world is a well of medicines. A fascinating field to study.

I paint a new plant and always read about that plants all I can do understand it's properties. Over the decades I have learned a lot and use medicinal plants regularly myslef. I don't take any pharmaceuticals anymore today which is also dues to my vegan lifestyle. Between the plants I eat and the medicinal plants I utilize, internally and externally, I haven't seen a doctor in years. Not even for a flu!"

I buy my herbs at Botanical Spirit Shop Improving your physical, mental and spiritual state of "being" through the use of herbal seeds, bark, roots, flowers and foliage from plants that have been used medicinally for centuries; safely, naturally and effectively! I am presenting a collection of paintings I did over the years. These are available as reproductions. Please purchase as many as you can. For yourself or as a gift they make great art.

I buy my herbs at Botanical Spirit Shop Improving your physical, mental and spiritual state of "being" through the use of herbal seeds, bark, roots, flowers and foliage from plants that have been used medicinally for centuries; safely, naturally and effectively!

Tennessee Ag-Gag Bill vetoed by State Governor Haslam. Thank you Governor!

2013-05-15T08:25:00.000-07:00

I am so elated and want to wholeheartedly thank the Tennessee State Governor Bill Haslam.
I will go to this web site and send him an message of gratitude.

He released this statement

Haslam Releases Statement on HB 1191/SB 1248

Monday, May 13, 2013 | 10:41 am NASHVILLE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam released the following statement regarding HB 1191/SB 1248:
“Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in Tennessee. Farmers play a vital role in our state’s economy, heritage and history. I understand their concerns about large scale attacks on their livelihoods. I also appreciate that the types of recordings this bill targets may be obtained at times under false pretenses, which I think is wrong,” Haslam said.
“Our office has spent a great deal of time considering this legislation. We’ve had a lot of input from people on all sides of the issue. After careful consideration, I am going to veto the legislation. Some vetoes are made solely on policy grounds. Other vetoes may be the result of wanting the General Assembly to reconsider the legislation for a number of reasons. My veto here is more along the lines of the latter. I have a number of concerns.
“First, the Attorney General says the law is constitutionally suspect. Second, it appears to repeal parts of Tennessee’s Shield Law without saying so. If that is the case, it should say so. Third, there are concerns from some district attorneys that the act actually makes it more difficult to prosecute animal cruelty cases, which would be an unintended consequence.
“For these reasons, I am vetoing HB1191/SB1248, and I respectfully encourage the General Assembly to reconsider this issue.” https://news.tn.gov/node/10688

Tennessee Ag-Gag Bill Killed by State Governor

By Melissa Nguyen | May 14, 2013

http://vegnews.com/

Learn more about these Ag-Gag Bills and see if your state has one in the works.

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2013/05/gov-haslam-vetoes-tenn-ag-gag-bill-051313.html

Saturday Night Vegan Deep Dish Pizza

2013-05-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

Made some deep dish vegan pizza. We used a Pizza baker because we don't have an oven. We have a Maytag Stove that is only about 5 years old and a year ago the oven went bad. It's not the first time we had problems with Maytag product, so I'll never buy Maytag again. In the meantime till I can afford a new stove I use the Pizza baker, I even bake some great flat bread in it, fresh almost every day. Takes about 60 minutes. Here are my photos of this delicious Pizza.

I made my own vegan mozzarella cheese and used it in the sauce. I use fermented wheat berries as stater for my cheese. I make it from wheat berries, it's called rejuvilac. There are videos all over youtube on how to make it.

My rejuvilac turned out great. It's important to use clean sterile container to make it. I clean them with alcohol. I took tomato sauce and about 1/2 cup of the cheese and put it in the chopper chop chop chop about three times and that was poured on to the dough and then the toppings went on. Vegan breakfast sausage I had left over from a few days ago. Vegan Pepperoni all chopped up, peppers, tomatoes, onions, Italian herbs, salt and pepper, and a bit of olive oil that's about it.

Why I denounced my former Christian believes.

2013-03-26T09:51:00.002-07:00

I was born and raised a Christian, not particularly engaged, but still prescribed to many of the Christian Doctrines out of habit, superstition and because of peer pressures.

As I got older and started to become more independent and intelligent and worried less about the Christian society or God's judgement and as I started to learn and observe, human behaviour, how it correlates to Christian doctrine and practices, it become clearer and clearer to me that Christianity is an unfortunate accident at best at worst conspiracy of history holding up progress and justice at the detriment of those that don't even prescribe to this believe system.

The teachings and practices of Christianity is in total conflict with my love for nature and all that is part of it. My believe in non violence is in stark contrast with Christian societies love of war and hate for many animal species and total disregard for the environment. It seems from my observations, Christian doctrine demands that followers loath the environment and other animals.

In Christianity nature is regularly diminished, destroyed, maligned almost as if it not part of the world and as if only mankind is of importance and totally unattached to everything else that makes up life.
This is of course in total contrast to what we know.

It seems the longer Christianity and it's political influence lives the shorter the life of nature and other cultures. It is very sad and troubling to me.

That is why, after almost a lifetime, I denounced Christianity and now prefer to live a life that respects all other live and our earth, other cultures without a pretentious supremacy complex that Christianity demands. I rather engage in spiral practice and soul searching and learning.

Generally I describe myself as a naturalist in the vain of John Muir sharing a certain cosmic consciousness! To me the natural world is my church!

If you would like to read a living example of Christian thinking today, here is a web site that is a great example of what some may say is extreme, but this is actually rather common. They are simply honest about it. This is what the Christian Church says about Naturalists.
http://www.seekfind.net/NaturalismACultBasedOnABoldfacedLie.html

Here is an example of a Christian man awakening. Father Frank is going to have a hard time coming out in the Christian church as someone who thinks like this. I wish him success and strength. He'll need it. Good man awakening.

Here are from http://www.seesharppress.com/20reasons.html

20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity

by Chaz Bufe

Earth Day Dolphins watercolor

2013-03-25T19:26:00.002-07:00

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor

2013-03-25T10:28:00.000-07:00

Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president
By Vladimir Hernandez BBC Mundo, Montevideo

Funny Video Justin Timberlake Veganville

2013-03-10T11:36:00.000-07:00

Justin Timberlake - Bring It On Down 2... by IdolxMuzic

3D printing... the future looks Interesting

2013-03-09T12:00:00.000-08:00

As an artist I wonder how this can be used to create art... if affordable units are made available.

A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Jan De Cubber, is seen at the Belgian company Materialise, the biggest 3D printer in Europe, in Leuven January 24, 2013. 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the shapes of objects. Materialise, a pioneer in the process, has a display of a foldable chair printed from one continuous piece of plastic - and made with the hinges already joined together, for example.
REUTERS/Yves Hermann Traub
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR3ER2U#a=2

Doing Good ...How and Where... get a start

2013-02-24T08:13:00.000-08:00

I know when we do something good and selfless, to help or save a Human or Animal in need it does more good for us. In my experience we get back more then we put in. Doing good should become an addiction. There are tons of ways to do good. Pick one. Mine is helping animal and bringing awareness to help all animals. One ways you can immediate get a jolt of "feel good" and light feeling in your heart, is by taken the step to becomes Vegan. Immediately you realize your action are now contributing to GOOD every day. You shop more aware, when you eat you feel joy, other than merely please of the palette, you feel joy of the heart as well. You start to learn so much and your actions on a daily bases effect so many animals and humans alike. Vegansism is about going good through actions. Also please spay and neuter your pets. Too many pups to many kittens add to the suffering. THANK YOU!

http://www.veganoutreach.org

http://www.hopeforpaws.org/

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/

http://happytrailsfarm.org/

Just Give
https://www.justgive.org/donations/help-homeless.jsp

http://animalfarmfoundation.org/

http://www.gentlegiantsdrafthorserescue.com/

Georgia Horse Rescue
http://www.gerlltd.org/

http://darkhorserescue.org/

Go Vegan With Sarah Kramer
http://www.goveganapp.com/

Love is Love

2013-02-21T15:38:00.000-08:00