Saturday, May 18, 2013
Gary Francione explains brillantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.
Gary Francione explains brilliantly the difference between animal welfare and animal rights.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Botanical Art by Ginette Callaway
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!
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!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tennessee Ag-Gag Bill vetoed by State Governor Haslam. Thank you Governor!
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
“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
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
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
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
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Saturday Night Vegan Deep Dish Pizza
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Why I denounced my former Christian believes.
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.
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
- Christianity is based on fear
- Christianity preys on the innocent
- Christianity is based on dishonesty
- Christianity is extremely egocentric
- Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality
- Christianity breeds authoritarianism
- Christianity is cruel
- Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific
- Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex
- Christianity produces sexual misery
- Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality
- Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils
- Christianity depreciates the natural world
- Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization
- Christianity sanctions slavery
- Christianity is misogynistic
- Christianity is homophobic
- The Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings
- The Bible is riddled with contradictions
- Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions
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