We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?
Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.
I am all too human, I don't always do the right thing, so how can I expect others to perform perfectly on the issues that are my top priority?
I met my first turkey at an animal sanctuary in 2000. The sanctuary owner brought out a turkey named Olivia who had been rescued from a factory farm. As I sat on the grass and reached out to pet her, she climbed into my lap and fell asleep. I was flabbergasted and charmed.
Seriously, many people have told me they can't eat turkeys anymore after getting to know them. I think in the wider world, when the stories air on the media, they help banish the idea that birds, other than parrots, are somehow lesser.
Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
And they say that money change you, but money don't change you. It just make you more of what you already are