tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17399779412817467392024-03-04T23:24:20.662-08:00Princess and the PeaceChic living for the peaceful at heartPrincess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-6017381073349991182012-06-26T07:17:00.000-07:002012-06-26T07:18:16.585-07:00Be inspired!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This video is 10 minutes of pure, blazing inspiration.</div>
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It is a message for our times.</div>
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It is delivered by an Australian philanthropist named <a href="http://freefromharm.org/videos/educational-inspiring-talks/philip-wollen-australian-philanthropist-former-vp-of-citibank-makes-blazing-animal-rights-speech/" target="_blank">Phillip Wollen</a>. </div>
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Phillip is a former vice-president of Citibank and was also a general manager at Citicorp. </div>
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At age 34, Australian Business Magazine named him</div>
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in the top 40 headhunted executives in Australia.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wollen#cite_note-1"></a> </div>
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In 2005 he received the Order of Australia </div>
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and in 2007 he won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_of_the_Year">Australian of the Year </a>award.</div>
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A passionate man with an urgent message.</div>
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Bravo!</div>
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Thanks to one of my favorite <a href="http://kissmyvegan.blogspot.com/2012/06/quite-possibly-best-speech-about-animal.html">blogs</a> for posting this video and making me aware!</div>
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King Lear, late at night on the cliffs asks the blind Earl of Gloucester<br />
“How do you see the world?”<br />
And the blind man Gloucester replies “I see it feelingly”.<br />
Shouldn’t we all?<br />
Animals must be off the menu – because tonight they are screaming in terror in the slaughterhouse, in crates, and cages. Vile ignoble gulags of Despair.<br />
I heard the screams of my dying father as his body was ravaged by the cancer that killed him. And I realised I had heard these screams before.<br />
In the slaughterhouse, eyes stabbed out and tendons slashed, on the cattle ships to the Middle East and the dying mother whale as a Japanese harpoon explodes in her brain as she calls out to her calf.<br />
Their cries were the cries of my father.<br />
I discovered when we suffer, we suffer as equals.<br />
And in their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear. . . . . . is a boy.<br />
Meat is the new asbestos – more murderous than tobacco.</div>
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CO2, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide from the livestock industry are killing our oceans with acidic, hypoxic Dead Zones.<br />
90% of small fish are ground into pellets to feed livestock.<br />
Vegetarian cows are now the world’s largest ocean predator.<br />
The oceans are dying in our time. By 2048 all our fisheries will be dead. The lungs and the arteries of the earth.<br />
Billions of bouncy little chicks are ground up alive simply because they are male.<br />
Only 100 billion people have ever lived. 7 billion alive today. And we torture and kill 2 billion animals every week.<br />
10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one species.<br />
We are now facing the 6th mass extinction in cosmological history.<br />
If any other organism did this a biologist would call it a virus.<br />
It is a crime against humanity of unimaginable proportions.<br />
The world has changed.<br />
10 years ago Twitter was a bird sound, www was a stuck keyboard, Cloud was in the sky, 4 g was a parking place, Google was a baby burp, Skype was a typo and Al Kider was my plumber.<br />
Victor Hugo said “there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come”.</div>
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Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.<br />
There are over 600 million vegetarians in the world.<br />
That is bigger than the US, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia combined! If we were one nation we would be bigger than the 27 countries in the European Union!!<br />
Despite this massive footprint, we are still drowned out by the raucous huntin’, shootin’, killin’ cartels who believe that violence is the answer – when it shouldn’t even be a question.<br />
Meat is a killing industry – animals, us and our economies.<br />
Medicare has already bankrupted the US. They will need $8 trillion invested in Treasury bills just to pay the interest. It has precisely zero!!<br />
They could shut every school, army, navy, air force, and Marines, the FBI and CIA – and they still won’t be able to pay for it.<br />
Cornell and Harvard say’s that the optimum amount of meat for a healthy diet is precisely ZERO.<br />
Water is the new oil. Nations will soon be going to war for it.<br />
Underground aquifers that took millions of years to fill are running dry.<br />
It takes 50,000 litres of water to produce one kilo of beef.<br />
1 billion people today are hungry. 20 million people will die from malnutrition. Cutting meat by only 10% will feed 100 million people. Eliminating meat will end starvation forever.</div>
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If everyone ate a Western diet, we would need 2 Planet Earths to feed them. We only have one. And she is dying.<br />
Greenhouse gas from livestock is 50% more than transport . . . . . planes, trains, trucks, cars, and ships.<br />
Poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent?<br />
The earth can produce enough for everyone’s need. But not enough for everyone’s greed.<br />
We are facing the perfect storm.<br />
If any nation had developed weapons that could wreak such havoc on the planet, we would launch a pre-emptive military strike and bomb it into the Bronze Age.<br />
But it is not a rogue state. It is an industry.<br />
The good news is we don’t have to bomb it. We can just stop buying it.<br />
George Bush was wrong. The Axis of Evil doesn’t run through Iraq, or Iran or North Korea. It runs through our dining tables. Weapons of Mass Destruction are our knives and forks.</div>
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This is the Swiss Army Knife of the future – it solves our environmental, water, health problems and ends cruelty forever.<br />
The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. This cruel industry will end because we run out of excuses.<br />
Meat is like 1 and 2 cent coins. It costs more to make than it is worth.<br />
And farmers are the ones with the most to gain. Farming won’t end. It would boom. Only the product line would change. Farmers would make so much money they wouldn’t even bother counting it.<br />
Governments will love us. New industries would emerge and flourish. Health insurance premiums would plummet. Hospital waiting lists would disappear.<br />
Hell “We’d be so healthy; we’d have to shoot someone just to start a cemetery!”<br />
So tonight I have 2 Challenges for the opposition:<br />
1. Meat causes a wide range of cancers and heart disease. Will they name one disease caused by a vegetarian diet?<br />
2. I am funding the Earthlings trilogy. If the opposition is so sure of their ground, I challenge them to send the Earthlings DVD to all their colleagues and customers. Go on I DARE YOU.<br />
Animals are not just other species. They are other nations. And we murder them at our peril.</div>
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The peace map is drawn on a menu. Peace is not just the absence of war. It is the presence of Justice.<br />
Justice must be blind to race, colour, religion or species. If she is not blind, she will be a weapon of terror. And there is unimaginable terror in those ghastly Guantanamos.<br />
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we wouldn’t need this debate.<br />
I believe another world is possible.<br />
On a quiet night, I can hear her breathing.<br />
Let’s get the animals off the menu and out of these torture chambers.<br />
Please vote tonight for those who have no voice.<br />
Thank you.</div>
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</div>Princess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-89906748458154562452012-06-25T11:04:00.002-07:002012-06-25T11:04:44.567-07:00Wilde Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The beautiful Olivia Wilde shares her</div>
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her unselfconscious blog called <a href="http://wildethings.org/about" target="_blank">Wilde Things.</a></div>
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She's up to all sorts of stuff you may never</div>
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She's an environmentalist (and vegan), </div>
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who supports the Environmental Media Association, </div>
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an organization dedicated to “greening” the film and TV industry.</div>
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which is outfitting medical clinics </div>
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in The Gambia, in West Africa, with solar panels.</div>
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</div>Princess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-14754914379330851902012-06-24T09:52:00.000-07:002012-06-25T09:53:33.629-07:00Sunday Meditation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Princess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-14634265496465677242012-06-22T07:31:00.000-07:002012-06-22T07:31:43.315-07:00Juicin' - Old School.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ever thought how great it would be to drink the juice straight from an orange? </div>
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Well, I have to admit I hadn't.</div>
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But a little gizmo called</div>
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It works best with</div>
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And the company was started</div>
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I wonder if you injected the orange</div>
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with champagne, you'd have a mimosa?</div>
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</div>Princess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-46022105229631278992012-06-21T09:18:00.001-07:002012-06-21T09:18:17.325-07:00Happy Summer Solstice!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Enjoy this longest day of the year!</div>
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While at my parents' beach cabin </div>
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a hummingbird nest.</div>
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I just watched an <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/auction/video.aspx" target="_blank">undercover video </a>showing the cruel treatment of animals at an auction in California. It led to 21 criminal cruelty charges. And that was just the auction house. This video, of course, is nothing compared to the realities at slaughterhouses around the country (and the world). It breaks my heart. <br />
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Just a reminder that every year 10 billion (yes, that's a "b") animals are raised and killed for food in the U.S. The cruelty and suffering these animals endure at all stages of their short, painful lives is just not acceptable. The system we have in place is not working. Animals are treated as unfeeling machines to be abused and mistreated by humans at our whim and for our profit. The image of Old MacDonald's farm is not a reality. Sadly, far from it.<br />
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<b>Please remember you have a choice in participating - or not -in this current system every time you pick up your fork. If you don't already, please consider eating vegetarian one (or more!) days a week. </b><br />
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Today is Monday. - <a href="http://www.meatlessmonday.com/" target="_blank">Meatless Monday! </a> - so why not start today? Every time you choose to forgo animal products you are saving the life of an animal and reducing the the suffering of another little being in this world. And you are doing something good for your health and the environment!<br />
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The other day I found myself waiting for a table at a bar with a friend. Eventually we spotted some people who were just paying their bill and leaving so we swooped in and sat down at the table before the waiter had a chance to clean it off. There was a plate of chicken wings with four wings left.<br />
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I've made the choice to be vegan so obviously I'm not a fan of eating meat. However, it saddens me in a different way when I see little body parts so casually left behind. It troubles me deeply that any animal has to go through suffering and fear to satisfy a temporary craving, but it feels even worse when that animal endures this fate only to be thrown in the garbage.<br />
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This holiday weekend, I encourage everyone to eat consciously. Choose food that aligns with your values and then eat it with love and peace in your heart.<br />
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I discovered a store called <a href="http://www.chanceco.com/" target="_blank">Chance </a>last year. </div>
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To me their simple aesthetic lends itself </div>
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I have coveted the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1630720142">straw stitched </a><a href="http://www.chanceco.com/products/straw-stitched-fedora" target="_blank">fedora</a> </div>
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They are stylish, handmade vegan handbags.</div>
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Better yet, they're having a <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/TRACCEbags?ref=seller_info" target="_blank">25% spring discount</a>!</div>
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<br /></div>Princess and the Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04897047178501545731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739977941281746739.post-65523210795693816442012-05-09T08:17:00.000-07:002012-05-09T08:19:59.489-07:00Bill Maher - Free the Animals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can always count on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/peta-ingrid-newkirk-free-the-animals_b_1464990.html" target="_blank">Bill Maher</a> to tell it like it is. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, no surprise that he is spreading the good word about </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PETA President <a href="https://www.facebook.com/IngridENewkirk">Ingrid E. Newkirk</a>'s new release of her book <a href="http://www.petacatalog.com/products/Free_the_Animals_Book-66-18.html">Free the Animals</a>. Check out the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/peta-ingrid-newkirk-free-the-animals_b_1464990.html" target="_blank">article here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book tells the real-life story of the people who pull off daring rescues of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">laboratory test animals and the whistleblowers inside who help them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, these folks are usually members of PETA, which often is perceived as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a radical organization - probably because they usually take radical action. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used to think they were extreme troublemakers too. But now </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think they are on the right track. Because it's the video footage from these </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rescues that brings issues to light and causes the (rightful) public outrage.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picture this - Britches, a baby macaque monkey who had </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his eyes stitched closed and some kind of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">electrical box put on his head. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or the mice who are forced to swim to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">point of exhaustion or drowning. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or the other monkeys kept in steel cages </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so small they repeatedly banged their heads against the wall.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kind of a PR nightmare for the tormenters, no? That's how it works. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shining a light on this activity forces corporations to find </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">better ways of testing. And by "better" I mean cheaper, more effective and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more applicable to humans. I know, it doesn't make sense that they even bother </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the animal testing. But apparently old habits, no matter how cruel and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unnecessary, can be hard to break.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks Bill, for spreading the word. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And thanks to PETA for doing the things that the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rest of us are afraid to.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's another picture of a Macaque monkey </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a better situation who befriended a kitten </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and is caring for it like a baby. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently even monkeys know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how to behave when </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we humans fall short.</span></span><br />
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I love the look of moroccan poufs.</div>
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But I don't like to buy leather.</div>
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(actually, purple, yellow, red and white)</div>
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to run across these <a href="http://www.grandinroad.com/marrakesh-ottoman/outdoor-furniture/accent-tables-ottomans/437245?isCrossSell=true&strategy=144" target="_blank">faux leather poufs</a></div>
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by <a href="http://www.grandinroad.com/" target="_blank">Grandinroad</a>.</div>
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They come in pouf and stool sizes.</div>
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The purple one above is the stool.</div>
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Since they're not leather, you can even</div>
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The perfect perch to sit</div>
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and contemplate kindness!</div>
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All white.</div>
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Definitely a statement.<br />
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