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“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I never fully understood that until this weekend. I mean, I understood it, but I didn’t get it. But now I really get it. I mean get it in my heart, in my soul.
You know when you do something wrong and someone confronts you, you [...]

I’m so happy that Prop 2 passed!
Last night, Farm Sanctuary’s President and Co-Founder Gene Baur released a statement on the Prop 2 victory:
The passage of Prop 2 in the country’s largest agricultural state marks a monumental victory for farm animals. This campaign did an amazing job of raising public awareness about the [...]

California voters go to the polls tomorrow to vote on a slew of propositions, including Proposition 2.
It is cruel and inhumane to confine animals in cages so small they can’t turn around or stretch their limbs. All animals deserve humane treatment, including those raised for food. Vote YES on Prop #2 to protect animals [...]

I just watched the Oprah show about factory farms.
Here’s an excerpt from the show summary:
In November, voters in California will vote on Proposition 2, which seeks to increase cage sizes for egg laying hens, pregnant pigs and veal calves. The new regulations, which would go into effect in 2015, would require cages to be large [...]

On the Oprah show today:
Lisa Ling Reports: How We Treat the Animals We Eat
Have you ever wondered what “cage-free” or “range-free” really means? Lisa Ling gets a rare look inside some of America’s farms. Where does our food come from?
Tune in to watch 4 pm on ABC.

These videos made me cry.
I’m not opposed to hunting, nor am I a vegetarian. But aerial hunting?!
If you care about the environment and the welfare of animals, I don’t know how you can vote for this woman.
“Pilots chase the wolves through the deep snow, sometimes for miles, until the exhausted animals [...]

I worked all day today and don’t really feel like making dinner. But I can still make a healthy meal — quickly and easily.
We’re having:

US Wellness Meats Hot Dogs (all-beef, nitrate-free, from grass-fed cows) with Homemade Lacto-fermented Sauerkraut and Pickles on Alvarado St. Bakery Sprouted Bread
Organic Green Salad with Tomatoes (from CSA box), Raw Milk [...]

It is insane to knowingly ingest poison. And yet, this has become normal in our world.
People think I am insane because I want to grow all my own organic vegetables from seed. The man at the gardening store yesterday thought I had snapped my cap.
“Why do you want to go to so much trouble?” he [...]

Joel Salatin said once that we have an NRA for guns — we should have a group like that to protect our food in this country.
I totally agree with that. I’d gotten completely ridiculous with the number of chemicals and genetically modified ingredients in our food supply. (I guess that’s because chemical companies own the [...]

When we were little, we used to watch “Saturday Night Live”. My mom loved the skit Dan Ackroyd did when he impersonated Julia Child. She used to always bust up laughing at that skit, and she’d always repeat the punch line, “Save the liver!”
Julia Child was always promoting things like liver and high-fat foods. Because [...]