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Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
Sharon Gannon
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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
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By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.
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We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves.
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One's knowledge of karma should not be used to judge others. You should ask yourself: Do I like where I am going, or do I want to change my direction?
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To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
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Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and regular farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched feed meal fed to livestock.
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Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.
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Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.
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Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.
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The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.
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Whatever you want to have happen to you make it happen for others now and eventually but inevitably you will reap the seeds you have sown.
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To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.
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Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.
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Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.
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Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.
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It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.
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See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.
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What you eat should not just be good for you but it should contribute to your happiness it should make you a happier person.
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The practices of Yoga will help you maintain equanimity in all situations by teaching you to become transparent, able to allow both joy and sorrow to flow through you without destroying your peace of mind.
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Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.
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What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.
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