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People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge.

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Feed two birds with one crumb.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled ___onvincing__ in the recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research (42). The evidence, of course, largely came from studies of meat consumption in nonvegetarians, although data from Adventist vegetarians in California concur (43).

There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I__ vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren__ doing anything at all?

I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.

No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live according to our true values, we need to stop viewing animals as commodities to be used, abused and killed for our own selfish benefit.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.