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Animals don't want to die

2009-09-09T10:26:00.000-07:00

This is what the end looks like for animals in the slaughter line. They are aware of what awaits them, they are scared, they don't want to die. They hear the sounds of their peers being slaughtered inside and want to escape. But they can't.

I can just imagine all the fear and stress that these animals live throughout their lives, the filthy conditions in which they are raised, the hormones, the antibiotics, and on the transportation to slaughter, the abuse, the pain, the complete disregard to their basic rights as sentient beings.

And people call this FOOD???? People who eat their flesh are eating MISERY.

Annoying?

2009-04-13T11:47:00.000-07:00

Pampering to the masses, and just when everything is going well... the vegan speaks?

Reminds me of constant real life situations where I end up bringing the "but..." when everyone else is in consent. If people consider it to be annoying then maybe try to put yourself in our place. How's for everyone agreeing on doing something you profoundly dislike? More than annoying I can tell you.

Just last week, on a sleepover at my house, my friends and I decided to go get some snacks to eat while watching our movies. Suddenly, none of the things they wanted to try was appealing to me. Pudding, jell-o, cream cheese, etc. I wouldn't mind them eating them in front of me, I've got my chilly nachos, popcorn, or peanut butter and jelly toast to enjoy. But somehow they felt it wouldn't be "fair" for them to eat in front of me, as if somehow I would feel deprived.

I insisted, but they didn't believe me LOL. So unfortunately, the ones being deprived ended up being them. Bummer?

Blog neglection

2008-08-13T09:56:00.001-07:00

I just realized I hardly ever use my blog anymore.
I neglect it so bad it isn't even funny.
I wonder if anyone reads it though.

Anyone?

Ignorance is Bliss

2008-05-19T13:46:00.000-07:00

Never had it clearer than this.

People never like to see how animals are abused/killed.
It shocks them. Makes them cry. And say they can't stand it.

However, they don't seem to care about eating the corpse, as long as they don't have to kill it. Sure it got abused, tortured and butchered just for them. But as long as they didn't have anything to do with it... it's fine.

How pathetic. To feel bad about something, but still take part in it. To think something is disgusting, but still be sponsoring it.

I couldn't bare it. So I stopped contributing.

How can you still be a part of it? You're just as guilty as the man who slits the cow's throat.

Picture that on your dinner tonight.

How would YOU Feel?

2008-04-30T07:09:00.001-07:00

Would you like to live in a cage?
Would you like to be constantly impregnated just to produce milk?
Would you like to be used in vivisection experiments?
Would you like to be skinned alive?

Well guess what? Neither do them, but they are. Because you don't care about them.

Here is another video I made for my YouTube channel. Hope you like it. Tell me what you think ok?

Animal Abuse: Nothing New under the sun

2008-04-30T06:57:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning to an E-mail from a friend. Barry Lovelace.

He is a Vegan Fitness Professional. And he wrote to me to share the news about YET AGAIN another beef packaging plant that was sanctioned for animal abuse.

Shocker!

This things always happen. I fin it incredibly stupid that people act like this is SO WRONG OMG but it has being happening for AGES!

They worry when they find out about sick, crippled and downed animals still being electrocuted, beaten to get up to the slaughter line... Because many people will ENJOY the taste of their sick and diseased flesh.

Disgusting!

People, with every meat you eat, you are SPONSORING this cruelty. When are you gonna wake up? If people in meat plants are mean, it's because YOU are paying them to do it.

Truth is, you are eating the corpse of an abused and tortured animal. Deal with it.

To you... a Prayer.

2008-04-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

You tell me where I need to go. Now tell me when I need to leave.

You tell me what I need to know… and tell me who I need to be.

And everything inside tells me there's more than what I've heard. There's so much more than empty conversations filled with empty words.

Give me one more time around, give me one more chance to see. To witness everything you are, and have a chance to be near you.

Because who am I to even dare to comprehend your perfect and holy purpose for my life. And how dare I be loved by you? My faithful lord.

You are the hope I have for change, you are the only chance I'll take.

When I'm standing at the edge of me, looking down on the edge of everything I've known to be true.

When I end, when I fall, You remain.

There you are. I see you, distorted by my own perception. And yet you remain… Holy, perfect, and loving God.

Mass Suicide

2008-04-04T10:07:00.000-07:00

We keep on killing animals, killing the planet, killing ourselves.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads "NOT GUILTY"... but we all are. And it's time to do something, before it's too late.

The band is Rise Against, song Ready to Fall (uncut version)
They're vegetarians, images on the video are from the
EARTHLINGS documentary, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.

Watch this... open your eyes, and DO SOMETHING.

Tolerance

2008-04-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

People are weird. It's hilarious just as much as it's scary.

I always like meeting new people online. At least on YouTube... somehow it makes it real. You watch them, listen to them... it's like they're so close, even though they're really far away.

Somehow it never fails... that stubborn & rude people come your way. So annoying!

I make videos about what I like, and people watch them. Share, listen, share some more, listen carefully... and move on.

Too bad some people are not willing to look beyond their own opinions, and make judgment based on their own resentful minds. Bad for them, cause they'll never open the possibility of diversity in their own lives.

It's sad. How somebody who was once a Christian can deny his faith. It just shows me, that he never had a real relationship with God. Never experienced him on a personal and spiritual level.

I know I have... and that's the best thing that's ever happened to me! I know having him in my life has made me a better person (even though I'm not perfect... yet ;-D LOL ) and so I will continue to pursue his ways...

"Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.

So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin."

Romans 14:19-23 (New International Version)

I'm not alone

2008-03-24T15:51:00.000-07:00

By the look of tings I can tell I share this burden with many fellow veggie friends. Check out this video a friend of mine from YouTube uploaded a few weeks ago.

It is so awesome. It will give you a good laugh.

People say the dumbest things.

2008-03-24T14:25:00.000-07:00

I get particularly annoyed by people who can't just seem to conceive the fact of someone not eating meat.

I get frustrated sometimes for not having vegetarian or vegan friends around. I have a few nice friends online, and it is awesome. But why can't people open their minds around here?

The most retarded questions asked to me in the past couple of days are:

Q: But what do you eat?
Me: EVERYTHING EXCEPT MEAT. Hmmm meat is not the only thing one can eat you know?

Q: But plants have feelings too, don't they? Why don't you care about the plants?
Me: It's not like I'm eating trees... Plants give fruit and vegetables, which are meant to be eaten, and if not it goes to waste. Animals can live perfectly if no one eats them.

Q: You can't get enough protein being a vegetarian, you're gonna be sick eventually.
Me: Ummm and where did you get that idea? Research and then talk to me again. NOT EATING MEAT IS HEALTHIER so therefore, I am healthier than you!

Q: If we didn't eat the animals, they would over populate.
Me: NOT TRUE. Animals are practically produced in farms and factory farms, they are bred massively because people wanna eat them.

Q: You are so skinny because you are a vegetarian.
Me: Duh, I was skinny before I became a vegetarian.

Q: Ugh, I can't stop eating meat because I have eaten it my whole life and I can't stop.
Me: LIAR!!! I ate meat my whole life too, and now I don't. Don't lie just cause you're lazy.

I wish people would just get over it... Leave me alone, and leave the animals alone.

GOD!!

Farm Animals

2008-01-21T12:16:00.000-08:00

So this is a video I made for my YouTube channel. I love the song, and love the animals. I hope you like it.

So leave me a comment. Let me know what you think :-D

New Year's Resolutions?

2008-01-05T17:47:00.000-08:00

Hmm.. I haven't still decided what they're gonna be. I kinda don't wanna make them and then at the end of the year realize I didn't quite achieve a lot of them LOL.

But I guess my most prominent ones and the ones most likely to actually be achieved are:

1. Spend more time sharing my faith in God to others.
2. Become and awesome cook. (Vegetarian cook, that is)
3. Practice Yoga at home for real.
4. Seriously lower my Credit Card debts.
5. Try to catch up with other resolutions I left behind from last year.

So that's it until now... so help me God LOL

God's Plan for Animals?

2007-11-09T13:48:00.000-08:00

It is a very interesting question.

All over the world, farmed animals are kept in the most appalling conditions and exploited to the limits of their endurance.

Deprived of their basic freedoms, separated from their children, closely confined, forced to undergo stressful and often painful procedures, neglected, abused, ignored.

Then slaughtered... butchered... and EATEN.

This my friends, is certainly not God's plan for his animals. Otherwise he wouldn't have given them a brain, a soul and feelings. He would have made them grow from earth like crops.

"The righteous man regards the life of his beast, but even the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel"

Proverbs 12:10

Are humans natural meat eaters?

2007-10-29T14:53:00.000-07:00

We are omnivores, true. That's why we have the power to make a choice. We can eat the meat, but we could most certainly live without it. And in a much more healthier way.

A healthy and compassionate life I aim. Happiness and peace of mind I achieve.

Quote of the Week

2007-10-19T09:28:00.000-07:00

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body."

~Mahatma Gandhi

Labeled

2007-10-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

Just cause I'm a -- V.E.G.E.T.A.R.I.A.N.--

Such a long word. So many meanings, and such lack of understanding.

And I thought I could share it with my friends just because. But not all of them seem to understand. Like if it was some sort of strange pagan cult I'm joining or something.

I don't like labels, yet somehow I put one on myself. I just wanna be free... to choose what to eat and what not to eat.

Not because everyone else does. But because my heart does.

So my health, and peace of mind, are all I need...

Eating Out

2007-10-12T09:01:00.000-07:00

So far, it had been a little weird whenever I had to eat out. Most restaurants don't really have vegetarian options in their menu.

It was so funny last time, because I went to Applebee's and had to order one of their salads. The waiter was a little confused though. "So you want the chicken salad without the chicken?" - he said.

It was very funny, but it was a very good salad still :-)

But it gets better each day. Yesterday I went to "Pizza Vesuvio" and found out they had 3 vegetarian pizzas in their menu.

How awesome is that?

Vegetable Bliss

2007-10-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

I'm not eating meat and I'm not missing it at all.

When I think about what could have possibly happened to the animal it came from, I don't even like the smell of it. And when I think about the benefit I'm giving my body just by replacing the meat with a bunch of healthy stuff, I smile inside.

And I'm happy that I made this choice. People who really care about me and love me have been really understanding and supportive.

And I know everything is going to be just fine :-)

Quote of the Week

2007-10-10T12:56:00.001-07:00

"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he's the one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."

~Mark Twain, American Novelist

Hungry?

2007-09-21T11:09:00.001-07:00

Mind is a complicated thing. It's not that I didn't know that I was eating a dead animal in my cheeseburger, or in my chicken salad, but somehow being able to witness it just shocked me.

And it changes everything. I lost the appetite completely.

And there you have it. Another good reason to be a vegetarian. Be able to stop contributing to this massive animal slaughter.

Special thanks to YouTube user Yashoda17 for making this great video. You can see more of her videos and work clicking HERE.

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that's the essence of inhumanity."

~George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright

To be or not to be?

2007-08-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

Life is such a gift, we're given only one. So whatever it is we want to do with it, has to be done fast.

So I've come to think about what is exactly that I want to do to improve my life. Spiritually, I am in constant growth and learning. But with my body is a bit difficult. I really want to go to the gym, but hardly ever do. I try not to eat too much junk food, but it tastes so good.

I've started my research on information about the vegetarian diet. It is filled with a lot of health benefits, the tasty part is yet to be confirmed. By me at least.

I'm all about being healthy and confident, and loving the body you have. After all, you make of it what it is.

You can't complain on being overweight if you don't do anything about it right? it's just an example.

Porolita's very inactive blog

Recommended Books to read!

Animals don't want to die

Annoying?

Blog neglection

Ignorance is Bliss

How would YOU Feel?

Animal Abuse: Nothing New under the sun

To you... a Prayer.

Mass Suicide

Tolerance

I'm not alone

People say the dumbest things.

Farm Animals

New Year's Resolutions?

God's Plan for Animals?

Are humans natural meat eaters?

Quote of the Week

Labeled

Eating Out

Vegetable Bliss

Quote of the Week

Hungry?

To be or not to be?