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 * “Animals are God’s creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God’s sight.”

Rev. Andrew Linzey, Oxford University, Animal Theology, 1995
 * “Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined. They are individuals in their own right.”

Jane Goodall

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We're living in a nation Where there's growing condemnation Of what is done to those who cannot talk I was blind to all their pain so I couldn't feel the shame In that broken piece of body on my fork  Then I wondered, could any child breed a bird that can't be wild? To eat its wings, take off its legs and its head? No. So we pay for hidden slaughter till we've addicted sons and daughters To our habit of eating the dead  And it's not so very long, since who could see the wrong In breeding humans as slaves without pay <p class="MsoNormal">It could be a woman without a vote <p class="MsoNormal">Or killing a leopard for its coat <p class="MsoNormal">Did we ever see the evil of the day? <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">So do you think you're any better <p class="MsoNormal">Now the animals we fetter, outnumber every human ten to one <p class="MsoNormal">And many children hardly eat <p class="MsoNormal">Because their food has fed your meat <p class="MsoNormal">While the blame for this shame, you pass on <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">So give me avocados <p class="MsoNormal">And I'll eat tofu burgers <p class="MsoNormal">You can even give me black bean curd <p class="MsoNormal">But please don't give me bread <p class="MsoNormal">If it's wrapping the dead <p class="MsoNormal">The remains of the body of a bird <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">For every piece of flesh you buy <p class="MsoNormal">You're paying to breed the next to die <p class="MsoNormal">By compassion, no longer are we led <p class="MsoNormal">And for the cow, it's worse, I fear <p class="MsoNormal">They rod, rape her every year <p class="MsoNormal">Take every calf, take all her milk <p class="MsoNormal">Until she's dead <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">This choice you say is your right <p class="MsoNormal">That you can eat just as you like <p class="MsoNormal">And it's merely an opinion that I voice <p class="MsoNormal">But your choice, it kills so many <p class="MsoNormal">This opinion kills not any <p class="MsoNormal">And your victims, you give them any choice? <p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">So there's more to avocados <p class="MsoNormal">And eating tofu burgers <p class="MsoNormal">Than minimizing sickness and your girth <p class="MsoNormal">No less than Einstein did resolve <p class="MsoNormal">From eating flesh we must evolve <p class="MsoNormal">Or mankind, he said, may not survive on earth <p class="MsoNormal">The age in which we are living is ever more misgiving over what is done to those who cannot talk <p class="MsoNormal">Are you blind to all their pain <p class="MsoNormal">Can you not feel the shame ]]





"If you are upset by Cecil’s death then you should be upset by the death of any animal. Just because you don’t kill an animal before you eat it, you are still guilty." Found here.

Dawn Engelhardt (from Change.org): I watched a documentary years ago on the chickens at this horrific company's plant and that visual caused me to give up eating meat. I've never been able to even consider eating a bite of meat ever since. I wouldn't want anything in my body that had suffered such a miserable painful life. How could I eat pure suffering and not think the energy of that animals death is somehow in the food itself. No thank you. I can't wait until this company is bankrupt.

“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don’t listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement-industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty plant-based protein-sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping to feed it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!” ― Patrik Baboumian

“Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.” ― George Bernard Shaw

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” ― Paul McCartney

“You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.” ― Paul McCartney

“A man can live and 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. And to act so is immoral.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” ― Albert Schweitzer

“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” ― Albert Einstein

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.” ― Franz Kafka

“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” ― Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Romance of Leonard Da Vinci

“I can’t count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.” ― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I’ve discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory– disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“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.” ― Rai Aren

“Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.” ― Neal D. Barnard

“One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn’t make any sense.” -- Patrik Baboumian





Species I've created!
Hello, the name's Michelle. Some of my favourite birds are... I don't have one! But if I had to pick, it's probably the Hoopoe.

RIP Dexie, Sunny, Shadow and Pavo. I hope you three are having fun up in heaven. I will miss you for the rest of my life. You were my children.

Top 5s, 10s, 20s, etc.
Top 10 favourite bird orders:


 * 1) Coraciiformes/Bucerotiformes/Leptosomiformes (tied)
 * 2) Psittaciformes
 * 3) Piciformes/Trogoniformes (tied)
 * 4) Passeriformes
 * 5) Accipitriformes/Falconiformes/Cathartiformes (tied)
 * 6) Strigiformes
 * 7) Charadriiformes
 * 8) Ardeiformes/Plataleiformes/Pelecaniformes/Suliformes/Sphenisciformes (tied; love Pelecanimorphae)
 * 9) Apodiformes/Various orders of Strisores (tied)
 * 10) Cuculiformes/Musophagiformes/Opisthocomiformes (tied)

Top 50 favourite bird families (non-passerines):


 * 1) Meropidae
 * 2) Coraciidae
 * 3) Momotidae
 * 4) Alcedinidae
 * 5) Brachypteraciidae
 * 6) Todidae
 * 7) Psittacidae/Psittaculidae/Strigopidae/Cacatuidae (lumping them together because I love all four families)
 * 8) Upupidae/Phoeniculidae (love both together!)
 * 9) Bucerotidae/Bucorvidae (love both together!)
 * 10) Leptosomidae
 * 11) Picidae
 * 12) Ramphastidae
 * 13) Semnornithidae/Capitonidae/Lybiidae/Megalaimidae (lumping them together because I love all four families)
 * 14) Galbulidae/Bucconidae (love both together!)
 * 15) Indicatoridae
 * 16) Trogonidae
 * 17) Pandionidae
 * 18) Accipitridae
 * 19) Sagittariidae
 * 20) Falconidae
 * 21) Cathartidae
 * 22) Strigidae/Tytonidae (love both together!)
 * 23) All families of Charadriiformes (see below)
 * 24) Ardeidae
 * 25) Threskiornithidae
 * 26) Balaenicipitidae
 * 27) Scopidae
 * 28) Pelecanidae
 * 29) Anhingidae/Fregatidae/Sulidae/Phalacrocoracidae (love them all together!)
 * 30) Trochilidae/Apodidae/Hemiprocnidae/Aegothelidae (love them all together!)
 * 31) Podargidae/Nyctibiidae/Steatornithidae/Caprimulgidae (love them all together!)
 * 32) Cuculidae
 * 33) Musophagidae
 * 34) Opisthocomidae
 * 35) Columbidae
 * 36) Rallidae/Sarothruridae (tied)
 * 37) Heliornithidae
 * 38) Gruidae
 * 39) Psophiidae
 * 40) Otididae
 * 41) Ciconiidae
 * 42) Gaviidae
 * 43) Diomedeidae
 * 44) Anatidae/Anhimidae/Anseranatidae (love them all together!)
 * 45) Spheniscidae
 * 46) Gaviidae
 * 47) Podicipediformes/Phoenicopteridae (tied; Mirandornithes is amazing!)
 * 48) Phasianidae/Odontophoridae/Numididae/Cracidae/Megapodidae (love them all together!)
 * 49) Various members of Metaves (see below)
 * 50) Various members of Palaeognathae (see below)

Top favourite palaeognath families
To be listed.

Top ten best quotes I've seen on FB/YT

 * 1) My roommate is a hunter, yet he claims he loves animals. Not true. He, like most people only love cats and or dogs. People have let themselves believe cats and dogs are superior to all other animals. But that's bullshit. Animals are animals regardless of species and are all made by god [sic].
 * 2) Why do we eat meat? To survive? Really? There are so many other options of food that contain THE SAME nutrients as the flesh of an animal. And yet humans continue to kill only to satisfy a hunger inside of them. And comparing the life of an animal to the life of a plant is just silly... That's no valid argument. Humans don't want to give up killing animals for meat because it tastes good and that's that. We don't NEED meat to survive. Not only is the cruelty of these animals unforgivable, but it's really not that great for you, honestly, unless you're doing your own hunting. The meat industry pumps horrible things into the animals such as hormones that we are consuming and as humans is not good. Do your research people.
 * 3) One day you'll have to stand before God and explain....
 * 4) Disgusting and barbaric industry! It frustrates me so much when people tell me that it's 'natural' to eat meat. I want to slap them for being so ignorant!
 * 5) you do realize that the billions of animals in factory farm need much more plant based food than we humans do right? So if we stopped breeding and torturing domasticated [sic] animals in factory farms less animals would be killed by harvest. Simple logic. Also it's not really about dying. It's about living in a small cage unable to move and enduring life long torture. Breeding in factory farms is the most evil thing ever. ﻿Oh and the soy thing is a myth. In fact the most parts if the rainforest gets destroyed because they need to field to produce food for ANIMALS in factory farms. ﻿And you do care about the rainforest but you don't care about the oceans being empty in a few decades..?
 * 6)  There's no way to justify killing something that you don't need to eat for sustenance or nutrients. Claiming that they had such a good life doesn't do anything for anyone who is vegan. Allowing something to have a good life doesn't justify slitting its throat for food, especially when eating meat is just unhealthy. Eating meat leads to different types of cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, metabolic acidosis, etc.﻿
 * 7) LOL, I know what a joke! I would love to show a bunch of primary school kids this video. I would laugh at their tears. I am a horrible soulless person, but I am also a vegan. Let the kids cry, scar them at a fragile age so they never eat meat again. ﻿
 * 8) Showing this vid to everyone is not a scare tactics. It's simply showing the truth. So you recognize that what is shown in this documentary is so horrible that it would traumatize you only from watching it. But you don't understand that it's so horrible that maybe we should stop it instead? I'd rather show this to a kid than to just blindly act like it wasn't happening. Why are people compassionate with kids but they are cold blooded murderers and torturers when it comes to animals? Guess what. If we stopped torturing animals NO ONE would have to ever see such things again. The "pain" that a child feels when watching this is NOTHING compared to the pain that animals feel when experiencing it. This is not a film for them, it's real life. A pig has the cognitive abilities of a 3 year old child. It's ok to traumatize them? I wouldn't show my kid the whole thing but enough that it understands what's happening and enough that it has a fair chance to decide wether to contribute to animal abuse or not. It'd only take one generation to stop the animal torturing for ever. If everyone showed this to their kids I bet a huge percentage would stop. They don't actually wanna hurt animals. Just saying "when you eat meat animals have to die" won't do much. While they do understand that they eat animals they don't understand what it means. I wish my parents would've shown me this when I was a kid. It would've made it much easier to go vegan.
 * 9) I can not understand how someone could make a living killing animals. It is so disgusting. These people are disgusting. This is the saddest thing I've seen in my life. 26 minutes in, I cannot watch it anymore because I am crying too much. I was already crying but when I found out veal was from a baby only 2 days old I lost it. I want to know how these people sleep at night. If people refused to work in these slaughterhouses, guess what, they would no longer exist. What we do to animals is completely sick. I wish I could go after all these people and do the same to them that they did to these innocent creatures. But that would be a crime. Killing these animals is no big deal but taking the life of a disgusting human is punishable by death, tell me how that is okay.﻿
 * 10) you can't argue that vegans destroy plants. 60% of world's agriculture goes towards feeding animals that will be later processed into meat. Meat eaters harm animals AND plants. The suffering caused by vegans is much less substantial.

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I have lived for approx. June 27 1990 12:50:00 CST  Cool huh?

Why I love birds
I just do. But if I had to say "why", well... they're colourful, beautiful, majestic, clean (unlike dogs), amazing, God's little canvasses, adorable, cute, intriguing, powerful, attractive, (I bet you're getting tired!), majestic, unique, striking, etc.

Favourite quotes
Hundreds of animals need to be killed every year to make ONE animal lover happy. I've seen so many "animal lovers" indulge in meat, fur and leather. The animals that are eaten were bred and raised for food. The animals that are pets were bred and raised for pet industry. We decide why all these animals are born, and we kill billions of them based on why we are breeding them. That is what is called "love for animals"... interesting! Why don't we just get over this hoax?

I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Life finds a way... somehow... no matter how damaged a tree or how inbred a cat may be, life finds a way... I find it hard to conceive... God has his ways. I don't think we will ever fully understand. Life is terribly amazing... in a good way!

Being woken up by blue jays is the best way to wake up.

You know what would be cool? Just to be able to fly. Be a peregrine falcon, to be exact. I'd fly as high as possible and just stall, falling to the ground. When I get too close to the ground, I would open up my wings and start all over again.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

There is one living spirit, prevalent over this world ... which assumes a multitude of forms according to subordinate laws. There is one thinking sensible principle allied to one kind of organic matter.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I trust no one, not even myself.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

A person hears only what they can understand.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Tons of quotes by Goethe are beautiful, I can't post them all!!! <3

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

From Family Guy
Quagmire: Okay, I'll tell you. You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend's wife. The man pays for your food and rescued you from certain death, and this is how you repay him? And to add insult to injury, you defecate all over his yard. And you're such a sponge. You pay for nothing. You always say, "Oh, I'll get you later" but "later" never comes. And what really bothers me is you pretend you're this deep guy who loves women for their souls when all you do is date bimbos. Yeah, I date women for their bodies but at least I'm honest about it. I don't buy them a copy of Catcher in the Rye and then lecture them with some seventh grade interpretation of how Holden Caulfield is some profound, intellectual. He wasn't! He was a spoiled brat! And that's why you like him so much—he's you! God, you're pretentious! And you delude yourself by thinking you're some great writer, even though you're terrible! You know, I should have known Cheryl Tiegs didn't write me that note. She would have known there's no "a" in the word "definite." And I think what I hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda, how we should "legalize pot, man," how big business is crushing the underclass, how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America. Well, what have you done to help? I work down at the soup kitchen, Brian. Never seen you down there! You wanna help? Grab a ladle! And by the way, driving a Prius doesn't make you Jesus Christ! Oh, wait! You don't believe in Jesus Christ or any religion for that matter, because "religion is for idiots!" Well, who the hell are you to talk down to anyone? You failed college twice, which isn't nearly as bad as your failure as a father! How's that son of yours you never see? But you know what? I could forgive all of that, all of it, if you weren't such a bore! That's the worst of it, Brian. You're just a big, sad, alcoholic bore. (sighs) Well, see ya, Brian! Thanks for the [bleeping]ing steak! Best monologue ever!

Quagmire: (As Bill Clinton) My fellow Americans, I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did gigoogity that girl. I geschmoigiddied her geflavaty with my googus, and I am sorry.


 * Chris: Dad, can you help me with my French homework?
 * Peter: Yeah, sure, why not? What's the word for fish?
 * Chris: Poisson.
 * Peter: Good. Dog?
 * Chris: Chien.
 * Peter: Seal?
 * Chris: Phoque.
 * Lois: Chris, watch your language!
 * Chris: No, that's how you say "seal" in French, "phoque".
 * Peter: He's right, Lois, look. [shows picture of seal and French term below] And here, I'll help you remember. What's this?
 * Chris: A lazy phoque.
 * Peter: Good. [turns page]
 * Chris: Dumb phoque.
 * Peter: Good. [turns page]
 * Chris: Sick phoque.
 * Peter: Good. [turns page]
 * Chris: Sick, twisted phoque.
 * Peter: Good. [turns page]
 * Chris: Cluster phoque. [Peter turns page, grabs, rips part of newspaper and sticks on book showing a celebrity] Ugly phoque and bitch.
 * Peter: Good job, Chris, I think you're ready. And remember, you can use that word as much as you want, even home in front of your parents because it's French, and French is classy.