Thursday, December 06, 2007

Bill Maher asks Bush to Pardon All The Turkeys

Politically Incorrect comedian, best-selling author, and HBO star Bill Maher wrote this forthright piece before Thanksgiving titled:


Bush Should Pardon All of the Turkeys

Quote: New Rule: The president can't pardon just one or two turkeys this Thanksgiving. He's got to let them all go.

Bill writes an excellent piece calling out ironies in our society while sticking up for the welfare of turkeys.

Read the full humorous story here, and smile proudly for Bill speaking up.
www.huffingtonpost.com

My Vegan Pizza Rocks So Hard

Yeah it's oozing with everything but cow puss. Complete with homemade dough in the bread machine. Sweet' lovin! Get yo'self some soy cheese :) My favorite kind is Follow Your Heart brand found at Whole Foods. (see picture of packaging below)

It's so good it gives me goosebumps. Now if ONLY Sarasota was cool enough that you could actually go somewhere and order a cruelty-free pizza like in real cities.



Why is cheese so cruel?? Don't be naive, it comes from milk which comes from a cow.

A dairy cow's life is a continuous cycle of impragna-tion, birth, and milking to provide one thing only -- a constant supply of milk for human consumption and profit. She will be milked for 10 months out of the year, including seven months of each of her consecutive nine-month pregnancies. Two to three times a day, seven days a week, she will be attached to an electric milking machine, like just another cog in a factory. Then she will be returned to her cramped, narrow, concrete stall to do nothing but await the next milking.

Within hours after giving birth, the cow's calf will be forcibly taken from her. Male calves will be sold for pet food, killed at just a few days old to make "bob veal", or raised for beef. Others will be auctioned to producers of "formula-fed veal". On veal farms, male calves are confined in tiny crates to restrict their movement in order to keep their muscles tender. They are fed an iron-deficient diet which causes severe anima but which keeps their flesh white, making it more valuable when they are sold for meat. Subjected to total sensory deprivation and stripped of any measure of joy, 20% of veal calves will die before even reaching the typical slaughtering age of 16 weeks.

The female calves will be sequestered in tiny stalls in preparation for their enslavement to the dairy industry. When they are old enough to be artificially inseminated, they will begin the drudgery of a dairy cow. Their mother will be promptly put back into intensive milk production, where she will remain at risk for numerous stress related illnesses, infections, and diseases, many of which can be fatal.

A dairy cow will survive a mere four years of this cruel, hollow life, whereas under natural conditions, she might live up to 25 years. At the end of her days, when she can no longer keep up the demanded level of milk production, drained and exhausted, she will be packed onto a crowded truck for transport to her final destination -- the slaughterhouse. After a life of slavery and servitude, her retirement gift will be to end up like her fellow "food animals" -- on somebody's plate. All vegetarians, especially those who continue to drink milk while unwittingly clinging to the myth that it is benignly begotten, should be outraged to know that 40% of America's hamburger is made from "spent" dairy cows.

Consider that the next time you consume dairy. Don't be lame and selfish. Give it up.... you'll live.... trust me.



peace & love,
Dill