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'Honoring Mothers and Ending Slavery' by Will Tuttle

2019-05-11T03:52:29.000Z

A disturbing trend over the past couple of decades is the ongoing proliferation of human trafficking and slavery. It’s well known that de facto slavery conditions exist in a number of industries, such as for children on cocoa plantations in Africa, and carpet, clothing, and electronics factories in India and elsewhere, men on fishing boats in southeast Asia, and millions of women and children in the sex slave trade internationally, including in the U.S. and Europe.

Researchers studying the problem report that there are vast sex trafficking rings throughout the U.S. that prey especially on children, and that the problem is under-reported and difficult to stop due to corruption and profiteering in law enforcement and the courts, as well as in governmental agencies that deal with children.

According to a recent study reported in USA Today, youth and child sex slaves are forced to have sex on average over five times daily and there are hundreds of thousands of adults who are buying sex with children, and who are rarely brought to trial. In a recent case, a man who was arrested was asked about his conscience, and if he felt any remorse for the terrible damage that he was causing children by buying and having sex with them. His response was telling: “I don’t want to know how the sausage is made.”

Years ago, I wrote an article titled “The Most Pervasive Form of Child Abuse” published in the June 2001 issue of VegNews before it was a magazine, contending that being compelled as children to eat the flesh and secretions of animals not only harms us physically, but psychologically and morally as well. With every meal, we’re consuming a narrative of materialism, reductionism, and exploitation of the weak by the strong. The subtext is, “Don’t make the connection.” “Stay shallow and don’t see deeply, feel deeply, or care deeply. It’s just an object: a burger, an egg, a breast, a wing, a piece of cheese.”

We are all profoundly wounded by being born and raised in a culture organized around animal agriculture, which is, at its core, a relentless and ritualized sexual attack on the sacred feminine dimension of life, specifically on females, mothers, and offspring. The core practice of animal agriculture is forcibly impregnating females and sexually abusing and killing the beings who are the result of raping them. This is happening millions of times daily; it’s the hidden dark side of our culture. We are compelled from infancy to not only participate and pay for this, and thus cause this ongoing tsunami of sexual violence, but also to then actually eat it and routinely feed it to our unsuspecting children. This injects them with the same toxins and wounds that have been perverting us and hijacking our awareness for generations now, driving ten thousand years of war and patriarchal oppression.

The wisdom at the heart of world’s spiritual traditions is basically unanimous: whatever we sow, we will reap. How can we ever expect that we as human beings are worthy of a culture that is free of slavery and the sexual trafficking and abuse of women and children when we are enslaving billions of nonhuman animals and sexually abusing the females and their offspring? It’s well understood that all the female cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, sheep, goats, and other animals who are imprisoned for food and other products are forced into pregnancy on what the industry terms the “rape rack” when they are mere children in human terms. Cutting costs in every way possible, the industry minimizes feed costs by manipulating young females into early pregnancy through drugs, hormones, and selective breeding.

Our efforts to curb and stop human trafficking are merely ironic in the face of the massive industrialized and invisibilized trafficking of animals that pervades and defines our culture. Going vegan and understanding the deep connections between animal abuse and human abuse is a significant contribution to the healing and resolution of the human slavery and trafficking problem that causes untold misery and suffering in our world. Until we publicly proclaim and explain these connections and they become part of our social conversation, we will never make meaningful progress in our quest for justice and respect in our human world. Eating and buying animal foods and products always requires trafficking and sexual abuse of animals, on both small backyard operations as well as on large-scale factory farms. This injustice permeates every cell of animal flesh, cheese, wool, leather, and egg, and screams for our attention, to wake us up from the cultural trance into which we’ve been indoctrinated, and to heal the traumatic wounds that have been inflicted on us by animal agriculture. The vulnerable—animals and children—always bear the brunt of the full fury of our desensitization and delusion.

There is only one way forward. Human liberation is impossible without animal liberation. There will never be any human justice without justice for animals. The fact that in the thousands of pages of writing about human trafficking and sexual abuse of women and children, there is virtually no mention of the propelling force—the massive trafficking and sexual abuse of animals—demonstrates how deluded, indoctrinated, and blinded we are by our culture’s food rituals. It’s long past time to speak up and embody the truth of compassion and justice for all living beings, and for all mothers and all the children of all species, so that we are finally worthy as a species to live in greater harmony on this beautiful and beleaguered Earth.

This Mother’s Day, let’s remember the millions of animal mothers whose babies are stolen and killed to be eaten and used, and let’s reflect on the ongoing trafficking and sexual abuse of men, women, and children in our culture, and discuss these connections with our friends and family. Slavery begets more slavery. Freedom requires us to question the indoctrinated narratives justifying our exploitation of animals, and to do our best to embody kindness and respect for all. We can all contribute our voices and actions and help build the positive future for all beings that is beckoning.

Posted in 2019 Essays, Current Blogs

http://www.worldpeacediet.com/category/2019-essays/

Please join 'Millions Against Monsanto' in boycotting GMO products and companies with cell phone App.

2016-08-04T15:00:26.000Z

https://www.organicconsumers.org/campaigns/millions-against-monsanto/how-install-and-use-buycott-cellphone-app

Our long [and continuing] battle for GMO labels may have [suffered a] defeat last week, but we refuse to get mad. We're taking our battle to the marketplace.

Almost 500,000 consumers have already downloaded the Buycott App. Let the #ConsumerRevolution begin!

Use the “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” Buycott App to scan food products before you buy them. You'll learn who the parent company of each brand is, and where that company stands in the GMO labeling fight.

How to install Buycott, and sign up for the “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” campaign on an iPhone:

1. Download here or go to the “App Store.”

2. Search for “Buycott.”

3. Tap “Get” next to the Buycott listing.

4. After the app downloads, tap “Install.”

5. Enter your Apple ID password (if prompted).

6. Once Buycott is installed, tap “Open.”

How to install Buycott, and sign up for the “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” campaign on an Android phone:
1. Download here or go the “Play Store.”

2. Search for “Buycott.”

3. Tap “Install.”

4. When prompted to give Buycott permissions, choose “Accept.”

5. Wait for the app to download.

6. When the download is done, tap “Open.”

How to set up your Buycott account (Android and iPhone):

1. Follow the on-screen introduction.

2. Sign up for a new account (or sign in if you already have a Buycott account).

3. Tap “OK” on the welcome screen.

4. Choose the “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” campaign (This campaign should show up as a featured campaign. If you don’t see it, you can use the “explore” function to search for it).

5. Tap “Join Now” on the campaign introduction page.

6. Drag the “Campaign Support Level” bar all the way to the right (toward “Strong”).

7. When asked “Would you like to receive updates on your campaign?” tap “Sure.”

8. When asked if you would like to allow Buycott to send you notifications, tap “OK.” This allows us to notify you with important info about companies and brands who need to hear from consumers.

9. You have now successfully installed Buycott on your iPhone, and signed up for our “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” campaign. You can now use the app to scan the barcode on a product and see if it is produced by a company that supports, or opposes GMO labeling.

How to scan a barcode (Android and iPhone):

1. Open the Buycott App

2. Tap the green icon in the center at the bottom of the screen

3. When asked if you want to allow Buycott to access your phone’s camera, tap “OK.”

4. Scan a barcode by holding it up to your phone’s camera. Tap the screen to focus.

5. A screen will come up telling you if you are supporting (green) or avoiding (red) the company that produced the product. If the item you scan is not in our campaign, it will say “No Personal Conflicts.”

6. In the center of the screen you are asked “Will you buy this product?” tap “Yes” or “No” to send the company a message.

7. Once you Tap “Yes” or “No,” you will be prompted to fill out a form to send a message to the company. First, you must choose our campaign message. To do this, tap “Select a Campaign Message” and choose “Pro-GMO? Or Pro-Right to Know?” Then tap “Paste Campaign Message” (green). Then choose which platform you want to use to send the message. You can choose one, or all three: Facebook, Twitter, and Email. Then tap “Send.”

why JEROME JARRE WONT EAT A MILKSHAKE! my thoughts ft Casey Neistat

2016-03-31T20:23:05.000Z

Hey guys! I've been inspired by Freelee and Harley a lot lately to get onto youtube and make a difference for the animals, so I did! I made a YouTube channel, put out three videos, and one is about why Jerome Jarre, a huge vine star with over 8M followers (whose been on the Ellen Degeneres show), WONT EAT A MILKSHAKE in Casey Neistat's vlog! He's offered the "Willy Wonka on steroids" milkshakes and won't eat it!! He even gets a bowl of raw kale brought out to him. Jerome has been posting regularly about aspects of veganism and I think it's clear why he won't eat the milkshake. So I put together a compelling video using clips from Casey's video and tweets from Jerome's profile about why he won't eat the milkshake -- it is HEAVILY focused on the animals.

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGXuVonj3U

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WHY TO GO VEGAN?

2016-01-20T21:48:42.000Z

I made a new video which I hope will reach some people who might not yet know about how badly humans treat other living beings! It's a compilation of some of the best speeches that have inspired me mixed with some horrible footage how animals are being treated.

Check out the video HERE! And I would really much appreciate some feedback, I'm planning on making more these type of videos in the future. Share it around with uneducated meat eaters if you like it!

And you might not be able to watch it on your phone because of the songs, but should work fine on computer!

Peace guys

Australian Morning Show Makes Fun of Vegans for not eating Baby lambs

2016-01-11T07:22:10.000Z

Bindi Iwrin from Dancing with the stars Vegan or Vegetarian ?

2015-12-03T20:43:57.000Z

SUPERWOMEN AKA Lilly Singh reply to our Vegan video

2015-11-12T21:33:30.000Z

so not long ago we did a video to Lilly singh giving information so she can make the connection and go vegan. she's a vegetarian and i personally feel it SHOULD *hopes* they can make the connection and let go of eggs milk, honey, and make the change. because think about it Vegetarians if all of them was to join the VEGAN wagon you know how AMAZING!!! that will be. their be more of us so more changes and more demand for vegan supplies. vegetarians are that big that they have options EVERYWHERE! so imaging if they joined the vegan team.

anyways lilly has a HUGE audience and allot of people has inspired to be ego because of her.

i made a video and some of use believe it was a response due to the fact was day later and she gave a "Friendly reminder to here choices" made me believe she seen our video. so if you guys can PLEASE! get this out to her again twitter her, gmail her so she sees the video and makes the connection! be awesome. this time i have added comedy in the video with a ethic msg and respond to "its a personal choice to eat animal products"

HIGH SCHOOL ANIMAL RIGHTS CLUB

2015-10-18T19:44:06.000Z

I am starting an animal rights club at my school and I need to write a 'club proposal' for the principles.

I need to include animal organizations that we would fundraise for and donate to and also activities we could do!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Superwomen a Hypocrite? Death on Unicorn Island

2015-10-18T10:07:52.000Z

Ight Tofu army im hoping to get this video out to Lilly.

OH! and by the way regarding that video "Earthlings Reaction video" ive been talking to a big youtuber here in Aus who has a big influence on allot of the 14-21 year olds here and he said he's gonna watch it so that's gonna spread the msg allot more. once he does i know allot of people will start doing "Earthlings Reaction videos" #TEAMVEGAN

here is my new To Lilly S AKA superwomen

Pregnant Ladies Reaction to Earthlings

2015-09-16T23:15:17.000Z

If we can share this video make it go viral just imaging how many people would want to do the "earthlings reaction video" allot! thats allot of seeds we are planting or people changing there life style. if you Value you this guys and want to share vegan life style PLEASE share this video

Killing Animals is EXACTLY the same as killing plants!

2015-09-11T20:54:48.000Z

Anyone else hear this insane argument to discredit all of the ethical aspects of Veganism?

We do for sure.

What would be your response if someone made this claim to you?

We actually did an entertaining satirical video demonstrating why "Killing animals is the same as killing plants".

Hope you enjoy! We had a BLAST with this one!

My favorite new vegan channel

2015-08-24T16:26:18.000Z

Finally some science while talking about veganism. Really well done.

CAN A FRUCTOSE INTOLERANT GO RAWTILL4?

2015-06-17T21:16:39.000Z

CAN THEY?

Should people die for eating animal products?

2015-06-12T16:54:18.000Z

So, I watched Freelee's video "What do you think?" She mentions that people who know the truth but continue to eat animal products should die and that people should be forced to go vegan. Now, I understand her point of view and see that she is just frustrated. I disagree with the murder of other human beings because we are after all animals, and I don't think picking and choosing which animal species gets to live is right. Saying people should die because they eat animal products is not helping to spread the vegan message. It actually turns potentials away. We don't want that. We want to get as many people as we can to become vegan. We have to be more positive. In her previous videos, she does a great job talking about the health benefits and all the positive things that people get from it with the addition of showing all the harm it causes us and to the planet/animals. This method worked for me, and I know it will work for others. Once people are eased into it, then, I would enlighten them about the torture of animals more strictly among other things to lock them into the vegan lifestyle. I would not talk about murdering other people because that is a huge turn off. I do agree that people should be forced to go vegan. It should be the law, but the government and business corporations are so greedy that they won't let that happen. All us vegans can do is convert as many people as possible in the hopes that there will be enough of us to invade and dismember these organizations. I love Freelee; I think she is awesome. I just think that she should be careful about how she phrases things. Hopefully, she and everyone else can understand my point of view and don't think that I am a "unicorn hugger" or whatever she calls it.I'm doing what I can to help spread the message, and I do this by educating the people around me. At college, I had several projects that I was able to corporate veganism into, and I was able to get people to question their lifestyle. I was even able to get some students and teachers to try it for a week. I was able to get one person to fully transition and a few to cut back on animal products or go vegetarian. It's a small step, but it's better than nothing.What do you guys think? Have you seen Freelee's video? If so, what did you think about it?

I NEED SOME HELP AGAIN! CASEIN FOR CANCER TO GAIN WEIGHT?

2015-04-29T12:07:59.000Z

They're trying to convince me that casein is essential for gaining weight when you have cancer. That all the doctors recommend that. I am so stucked here that I don't know what to do. Animal products specially dairy is one of the main causes of ovaries and prostate cancer. I try to show them pages explaining these thing and they just say me that those are forums and he things that they read are from special doctors pages and university an government pages bla bla blahs

Can we talk about what meat-eaters say to me?

2015-04-28T14:34:10.000Z

They keep telling me that there were tribes that would eat meat and tribes that would eat plants and that tribes who ate meat would always win the one's that consumed plants. And I'm like yeah and what? Are we in war now? We CAN cook rice and pasta and we HAVE ENOUGH fruits. Come on man..... What else can I say to them?Also, they say to me that people living in cold regions in countries can't have a vegan diet because they have to protect themselves with fish mostly (or meat). And that they aren't the same as people who live in warm places. What about this? I think I need to investigate more so I don't turn blank although I always try to make some good explanations. There must be a perfect explanation of these too. If they would try the vegan diet they wouldn't say anything bad about it, being vegan is feeling awesome. Fresh fruits and plant based food plus you get so connected to nature.. Ahh..... They really should try it haha. Thank you for taking your time for reading this. Let's talk!

Freelee and Durianrider Bullies?

2015-01-04T21:14:24.000Z

Sharing My Comments and Criticisms this video has added comedy n talk on some serious issues

Some animals don't feel Pain!?!? -VEGANUARY 2015

2015-01-02T22:24:14.000Z

In the veganuary Myths section, question number 22 says "Many animals, like human beings, experience pain. This means that things can go better or worse for them. " I feel like this is implying that SOME animals do NOT feel pain. That is incorrect. I don't know what to do to fix this misleading message so can someone help me know what to do or who to contact? I don't want people to think that it's a percentage of animals that feel, slightly justifying their pain inflicting actions upon any animal. ALL ANIMALS FEEL.

it's not food! it's violence!!

2014-09-24T00:53:15.000Z

here is a great video uncovered by bigG:

One Voice for Animal Liberation (DxE August)

A committed band of activists is on a mission to change the world for animals. But they need your help.

With Eddie Lama of The Witness, distinguished critical theorist John Sanbonmatsu, and activists from 31 cities in four continents, DxE is setting out to show the world that we are no longer afraid to say what we believe: that every animal has an equal right to be safe, happy, and free.

Languages featured in this video include:

Chinese
Danish
English
Farsi
French
Georgian
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Irish
Japanese
Portugese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
The cries of the animals

Over 60 cities in 17 countries have joined the #ItsNotFoodItsViolence campaign. Join the growing network:

http://directactioneverywhere.com/nex...
https://www.facebook.com/directaction...

the excuses stop right here!

in friendship,

prad

Losing WEIGHT On Pepsi

2014-09-01T09:56:49.000Z

Sharing my blog about health, fitness, animal rights, empowerment and kewl stuuf

2014-08-04T15:41:49.000Z

Hey fruity friends, I have a blog and am trying to get it out there and you can help me! Check out my posts and share with your friends, that simple :)

http://laughingspontaneously.blogspot.com/

I write posts every other day or so, so please keep checking for updates! Thank you!

From one fruit addict to another ;)

NO Such thing as a VEGAN?

2014-08-02T13:23:26.000Z

They say Asians are all **** BUT Aussies are just the same

2014-07-24T09:01:45.000Z

ANDROID HOMME LEATHER SHOE TRUTH EDDITION

2014-07-21T21:43:32.000Z

DOES IT REALLY COME WITH OLD AGE?

2014-06-23T11:35:54.000Z

Sign the Petition: Stop cruel animal experiments where piglets are forced to drink vodka and wine!

2014-06-10T16:56:08.000Z

https://www.change.org/petitions/stop-cruel-animal-experiments-where-pigs-are-forced-to-drink-vodka-and-wine?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=75770&alert_id=bgEmzntwpe_7boYnF%2BhXnkAtz0dtXrsspdAVilK2TPC1mh1khMpnC50JasuTqnHfXE2KtqLF5v3

HOW I GET HIGH

2014-06-07T08:39:16.000Z

VEGAN DIET IS DANGEROUS!!!

2014-05-15T17:22:36.000Z

The Scary Truth About Vegan Diets By Marie Claire

Read the article above...

What are your thoughts?

Are you infuriated?

Just because a few people go vegan, and do not do it properly, is not the lifestyle's fault. There is not a huge epidemic of deficient vegans... very few people end up ill due to a vegan diet. I find this article to be complete blasphemy. I'd like to hear some thoughts from fellow vegans!! Please share!

BUT ANIMALS EAT MEAT!

2014-05-10T09:29:52.000Z

DO you get that stupid comment some times? when people are like..." well its the circle of life!"... "animals eat each other" then you should watch this :)

true meaning of easter will shock you

2014-04-24T13:10:24.000Z