Martha Says NO To Factory Farms
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Style guru Martha Stewart has joined Farm Sanctuary to oppose factory farming. She talks a bit about why we should all speak out against it. Join Martha and Farm Sanctuary and the millions who already speak for the animals by (1) not eating them and (2) expressing your support for bills that restrict factory farming operations. This is an issue that crosses political lines. After visiting the Farm Sanctuary website you might want to stop at the Humane Farming Association‘s, and see what they are doing to make factory farms a thing of the past.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering. – Buddha
See yourself in Others – Buddha
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.” – Leonardo da Vinci
A man can be healthy without killing animals for food: therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy
I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. – Abraham Lincoln
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for the survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. – Albert Einstein
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends. – George Bernard Shaw
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” There are many problems in the world we can’t change, but with every meal, we have the power to create lasting positive change. – Mahatma Gandhi
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” –Ghandi.
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punisments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way”. – Martin Luther King Jr.(Many people don’t realize that his wife, Correta Scott King and their son, Dexter Scott King are both vegan).
Kudos to Martha Stewart and Farm Sanctuary.
I know there are plenty of vegan purists who say that this is not good enough and we should be saying that all animal use is wrong. But that message is not going to get through to the overwhelming majority of people until their minds are prepared to accept it.
While almost everyone is still in massive denial about how their food is brought to them, then just getting them to admit and face up to the facts about factory farming would be a major achievement.
Once we break through the denial and get people to admit the reality of cruelty, maybe then we can make headway with the far more esoteric message that all animal use violates their rights.
Martha and Farm Sanctuary are doing good work in reaching out to people.
I have trouble understanding exactly what the media defines as a “factory farm” and what that implies.
As a vegan, I don’t participate in the grey area, but find the suggestions that the idyllic farm of years past is substantially better than modern animal operations.
I would recommend vegans remain openly critical of “land-based” and “pasture-raised” animal farming practices unless the people running these operations can demonstrate that they take appropriate measures to minimize environmental damage and ensure animal health. (Even then, I will not buy the products, but that is a different issue for blocked vegetarians.) I would also encourage well-run “factory” farms to be more open with their methods as some consumers may wish to lump them all together with the blatant abuses of the few.