Gary Loewenthal
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To those who say “get a life,” I say, with no rancor, “save a life!”
To those who say “get a life,” I say Iit is my honor, my privilege, and my obligation to speak for victims who otherwise have no voice. I can think of no more noble calling and I pledge to help tham for the rest of my life. Mass-murder and torture is not something we should “get over;” it is something we should should end. Each of us can start along that peaceful, life-affirming path at our net meal, our next trip to the grocery store.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Glenview
To those who say “get a life,” I say, with no rancor, “save a life!”
To those who say “get a life,” I say Iit is my honor, my privilege, and my obligation to speak for victims who otherwise have no voice. I can think of no more noble calling and I pledge to help tham for the rest of my life. Mass-murder and torture is not something we should “get over;” it is something we should should end. Each of us can start along that peaceful, life-affirming path at our net meal, our next trip to the grocery store.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Grayslake
To those who say “get a life,” I say, with no rancor, “save a life!”
To those who say “get a life,” I say Iit is my honor, my privilege, and my obligation to speak for victims who otherwise have no voice. I can think of no more noble calling and I pledge to help tham for the rest of my life. Mass-murder and torture is not something we should “get over;” it is something we should should end. Each of us can start along that peaceful, life-affirming path at our net meal, our next trip to the grocery store.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Libertyville
To those who say “get a life,” I say, with no rancor, “save a life!”
To those who say “get a life,” I say Iit is my honor, my privilege, and my obligation to speak for victims who otherwise have no voice. I can think of no more noble calling and I pledge to help tham for the rest of my life. Mass-murder and torture is not something we should “get over;” it is something we should should end. Each of us can start along that peaceful, life-affirming path at our net meal, our next trip to the grocery store.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Wilmette & Kenilworth
The personal choice of the animals is to live, and I believe deep down our personal choice, as well as our obligation, is to be kind, and to try to refrain from inflicting avoidable harm on others. Instead of teaching chikdren to blunt and suppress their natural compassion, let us nurture it, and choose life and peace instead of killing. This is something we can do at every meal.
My prayers go to the animals, fattened up to be killed, their lives cut extremly short, packed into trucks en route to violent slaughterhouses. My prayers go to all those who feel they have to participate in this violence but often shut their eyes and their ears to the killing and terror: You don’t have to participate in this. Open your hearts fully, feel the animals’ pain and vow not to contribute to it.
My prayers of thanks and awe go to Debby Rubenstein, who has advocated tirelessly and peacefully for years on behalf of the animal victims. She perserveres despite horrible name-calling and cruel insults direted at her, and despite her good-faith offers being rebuffed or ignored. Her compassion and dedication is stronger than all that. Have a Heart Farm can always use help. It is much more rewarding to save lives than to end them.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Glenview
The personal choice of the animals is to live, and I believe deep down our personal choice, as well as our obligation, is to be kind, and to try to refrain from inflicting avoidable harm on others. Instead of teaching chikdren to blunt and suppress their natural compassion, let us nurture it, and choose life and peace instead of killing. This is something we can do at every meal.
My prayers go to the animals, fattened up to be killed, their lives cut extremly short, packed into trucks en route to violent slaughterhouses. My prayers go to all those who feel they have to participate in this violence but often shut their eyes and their ears to the killing and terror: You don’t have to participate in this. Open your hearts fully, feel the animals’ pain and vow not to contribute to it.
My prayers of thanks and awe go to Debby Rubenstein, who has advocated tirelessly and peacefully for years on behalf of the animal victims. She perserveres despite horrible name-calling and cruel insults direted at her, and despite her good-faith offers being rebuffed or ignored. Her compassion and dedication is stronger than all that. Have a Heart Farm can always use help. It is much more rewarding to save lives than to end them.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Grayslake
The personal choice of the animals is to live, and I believe deep down our personal choice, as well as our obligation, is to be kind, and to try to refrain from inflicting avoidable harm on others. Instead of teaching chikdren to blunt and suppress their natural compassion, let us nurture it, and choose life and peace instead of killing. This is something we can do at every meal.
My prayers go to the animals, fattened up to be killed, their lives cut extremly short, packed into trucks en route to violent slaughterhouses. My prayers go to all those who feel they have to participate in this violence but often shut their eyes and their ears to the killing and terror: You don’t have to participate in this. Open your hearts fully, feel the animals’ pain and vow not to contribute to it.
My prayers of thanks and awe go to Debby Rubenstein, who has advocated tirelessly and peacefully for years on behalf of the animal victims. She perserveres despite horrible name-calling and cruel insults direted at her, and despite her good-faith offers being rebuffed or ignored. Her compassion and dedication is stronger than all that. Have a Heart Farm can always use help. It is much more rewarding to save lives than to end them.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Libertyville
The personal choice of the animals is to live, and I believe deep down our personal choice, as well as our obligation, is to be kind, and to try to refrain from inflicting avoidable harm on others. Instead of teaching chikdren to blunt and suppress their natural compassion, let us nurture it, and choose life and peace instead of killing. This is something we can do at every meal.
My prayers go to the animals, fattened up to be killed, their lives cut extremly short, packed into trucks en route to violent slaughterhouses. My prayers go to all those who feel they have to participate in this violence but often shut their eyes and their ears to the killing and terror: You don’t have to participate in this. Open your hearts fully, feel the animals’ pain and vow not to contribute to it.
My prayers of thanks and awe go to Debby Rubenstein, who has advocated tirelessly and peacefully for years on behalf of the animal victims. She perserveres despite horrible name-calling and cruel insults direted at her, and despite her good-faith offers being rebuffed or ignored. Her compassion and dedication is stronger than all that. Have a Heart Farm can always use help. It is much more rewarding to save lives than to end them.
Posted to UPDATE: Protests fail to halt animal auction - Wilmette & Kenilworth
“The 4-H kids know what is going to happen to their animals, and they are fine with that. The …animal rights people should get over it. These animals are not meant to be pets.”
Year after year, at the sanctuary we see kids beaming with happiness when they hug and pet the rescued farm animals; it’s a reflection of their natural empathy for them. On the other hand, when I’ve shown videos of slaughterhouse scenes to kids, with their parents’ explicit permission, nearly every one expresses despair and sadness – which is the appropriate response to seeing brutality and tehe suffering of innocents.
I doubt that the 4-H kids would be stoic if they saw their beloved animals being killed and chopped into bits. But if for some reason they have been taught to override their natural compassion in order to participate in completely unnecessary violence, what a horrible thing to do to kids. I don’t believe we can be fully human and ” be fine” with inflicting severe avoidable harm to others – that goes against the very core of our better natures.
I hope to God I never “get over” the mass-slaughter of innocent animals.
Making up self-serving purposes for animals in order to rationalize violence inflicted on them is cowardly. In affluent countries, the real reasons we harm and kill animals is because we can. It is strictly a choice; it is not a divine command, or necessary for health.
Sentient beings with feelings, the will to live, and the capacity to suffer are not “meant” to be mere tools whom we destroy for pleasure or profit, or out of habit. But the more compelling question is “What are we meant to be?” Ruthless, greedy dominators for whom a momentary taste sensation justifies the taking of lives. or compassion-filled people who choose peace, humility, and respect for life as widely as possible? Which path will we choose?
Posted to Wagner Farm animal auction spurs protests - Deerfield
“The 4-H kids know what is going to happen to their animals, and they are fine with that. The …animal rights people should get over it. These animals are not meant to be pets.”
Year after year, at the sanctuary we see kids beaming with happiness when they hug and pet the rescued farm animals; it’s a reflection of their natural empathy for them. On the other hand, when I’ve shown videos of slaughterhouse scenes to kids, with their parents’ explicit permission, nearly every one expresses despair and sadness – which is the appropriate response to seeing brutality and tehe suffering of innocents.
I doubt that the 4-H kids would be stoic if they saw their beloved animals being killed and chopped into bits. But if for some reason they have been taught to override their natural compassion in order to participate in completely unnecessary violence, what a horrible thing to do to kids. I don’t believe we can be fully human and ” be fine” with inflicting severe avoidable harm to others – that goes against the very core of our better natures.
I hope to God I never “get over” the mass-slaughter of innocent animals.
Making up self-serving purposes for animals in order to rationalize violence inflicted on them is cowardly. In affluent countries, the real reasons we harm and kill animals is because we can. It is strictly a choice; it is not a divine command, or necessary for health.
Sentient beings with feelings, the will to live, and the capacity to suffer are not “meant” to be mere tools whom we destroy for pleasure or profit, or out of habit. But the more compelling question is “What are we meant to be?” Ruthless, greedy dominators for whom a momentary taste sensation justifies the taking of lives. or compassion-filled people who choose peace, humility, and respect for life as widely as possible? Which path will we choose?
Posted to Wagner Farm animal auction spurs protests - Glenview