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By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.
Sharon Gannon
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Sharon Gannon
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 4
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What we do to others will come back to us.
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Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.
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Because of our unenlightenment, we do not know that what we do to others we ultimately do to ourselves.
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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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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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The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!
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Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem.
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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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Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final that animal will not reproduce again!
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