December 2024

Marin VEG

The vegan news last month was mostly about recipes for Thanksgiving.  So for December I will simply wish you joy, peace, and much to be grateful for during this holiday season.  And I will share this piece, as I do every year, from C. David Coats' book Old MacDonald's Factory Farm.   Despite being published first in 1989, the message, sadly, is still relevant.

Peace on Earth

Isn`t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out a card praying for Peace on Earth.”

― C. David Coats

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