It is not a "personal choice" when you are eating my friends and you are ruining my world. When you made your "personal choice", did you ask the animal if you could confine, torture, and murder him or her? When you made your "personal choice", did you ask me if I mind all your pollution and devastation? My tax money subsidizes your "personal choice". Just because we personally make selfish choices does not make them "personal choices".
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson (1778)
Even Barack Obama commented on the Agriprocessors ethical black hole on a campaign stop in Davenport, IA, remarking, "They have kids in there wielding buzz saws and cleavers. It's ridiculous." http://veganschool101.blogspot.com
Veggie Pride Parade post rally in Union Square Park, New York City May 17, 2009
http://veganschool101.blogspot.com/2009/05/barack-obamas-lac k-of-concerncorpse.html
Happy meat my ass! Nothing "happy" about murder! No matter what anyone tells you, eating the carcass of a once living being is unnecessary and is socially, mentally, spiritually, and ecologically damaging.
Read PETA's letter to Tim Mahaffy, Fox River Grove Principal here
"Not only at Fox River Grove Middle School but also in thousands of schools across the country, corporate agribusiness has run amok in the attempt to utilize public education as a place to establish the naturalization of commercial meat and dairy as lifelong eating habits, to generate increased sales, to subsidize the food industry against decreased producer prices, as well as to funnel below-health standards food not fit for public sale. Warwak was correct to demand the riddance of the Dairy Council's posters as they had in fact already been targeted for removal from approximately 105,000 public schools by the Federal Trade Commission." Richard Kahn PhD, University of North Dakota
http://freire.mcgill.ca/files/kahn-epistemologiesofignorance .pdf
http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/are-the-t hings-that-matter-most-better-with-your-promise-and-hope-of- great-change/
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it" Buddha
Dear Mahaffy / Fox River Grove Middle School,
It is a crime against humanity to decide that children shall stumble and die early deaths so that you may eat and work as you wish.
Warwak
http://inslide.com
Impressionable children are forced to go to school. Advertising of any kind in schools is immoral. Allow children all the information without being marketed to, so they can make their own decisions. A milk mustache on a sexy woman has nothing to do with reality - it is pure marketing.
Face the truth
I find it very disturbing that schools hide veganism from children and promote false dairy industry advertisements. School administrators have proven they do not care to change – even when children’s lives are at stake.
What can be more important than children’s lives?
Schools should be delivering truth; instead, money-hungry administrators promote evil lies and sell out the children we entrusted them to care for.
Children want all the information and appreciate having choices – especially when their own health and well-being are in danger. The philosophy learned in classrooms today becomes the philosophy of society tomorrow.
Schools avoid humane education and teach students to be ignorant and apathetic.
Not knowing and not caring are different things. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is nothing to sweep under the rug. I wonder how people will feel in 10 to 15 years when the children of today are the “dropping-like-flies†adults of tomorrow. It breaks my heart, but at least I know I did everything possible to let people know.
Moreover, because the people in charge wish to oppress the trusting children, I vow to continue informing generations to come.
Fox River Grove, welcome to the new world of beef recalls, truth, and responsible vegan teachers.
Dave Warwak
Williams Bay, Wis.
http://nwherald.com/articles/2008/08/01/opinion/letters/doc4 89284771c3a7455227227.txt
Robber-of-life Barack Obama is the Lizard Foundation’s most valuable corpse-muncher in their war against humanity.
Middle School Students
YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
Mr. Warwak wrote you a letter
http://inslide.com/lettertostudents.htm
Click here to visit the Peep Show For Children Only! Indoctrination: to teach with a biased or one-sided ideology
School allows lunchroom to be turned into a dairy industry advertisement; but, teacher fired for turning his classroom into a “PETA advertisementâ€
Unsuspecting and trusting children deserve a choice
Warwak on iTunes
click here
"It's not a personal choice when you are ruining my world and you are eating my friends" Warwak
Here is the list of schools that served it up. If your school is on this list, they received recalled beef from Westland - SORRY :-(
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/safety/Hallmark-Westland_byState .pdf
The World is watching and listening and waiting.
Do the children care enough to save planet Earth?
Will Fox River Grove Middle School students become heros in the eye's of the World?
Will other schools follow in example? Listen to this weekend's show!
Cody and Chris interviewed on this weekend's Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden!
Broadcast in South Florida, San Fransisco, Seattle, and New York City
Archived podcast should be available after this weekend!
Details at goveganradio.com
Mailto: [email protected] and put “FRG STUDENT COMMENTS†in the subject line.
You have a voice Fox River Grove Middle School! Let the world know how you feel about animals and the way people in charge tell you to eat, wear, and use in anyway you want. Tell the world animals are our friends. Tell the world Fox River Grove cares. Tell the world to stop all the death and destruction. Tell the world you are sick of pollution, cruelty, and violence.
Tell the world you care more about your own body than they do and that you don’t want to get sick or die from: Strokes, Heart disease, Osteoporosis, Kidney Stones, Colon cancer, Prostate cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Ovarian cancer, Cervical cancer, Stomach cancer, E-coli, Endometrial cancer, Breast cancer, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes, Kidney disease, Peptic ulcers, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Hiatal hernias, Diverticulosis, Obesity, Gallstones, Hypertension, Asthma, Salmonellosis, Trichinosis, Irritable colon syndrome, and Mad Cow/CJD (all related to meat and dairy products).
Bob will read your letter on the radio!
Hey Kids, Click here for a Cartoon about your "School Lunch"
GO VEGAN!
Seems the FRG SD #3 Board of Education could care less for their own children. Even after warning them of such problems, they ignore me and continue to serve meat and dairy to unsuspecting children. They can no longer claim ignorance, only apathy. Straight from their school web site when I appeared to warn the school board about mad cow in the school lunch program and how it turns children's brains into sponges.
"Mr. Dave Warwak also signed in to address the Board. He questioned the people at the meeting on whether or not they had heard about the meat recall. He alleged that the meat from this recall was fed to the students at the Middle School. Mr. Warwak distributed a two page letter addressed “Dear Friends†(08-02-01). He further stated that these are stressful times, and he distributed stress balls to the Board (08-02-02). Mr. Warwak also stated that he wanted the record to show that he had been in contact with the State Board of Education regarding his dismissal from the District. Mr. Warwak stated that it was totally illegal to fire a tenured teacher without putting that person on probation. He also stated that the District is liable for the bogus press release and whatever health issues our students come down with in the next 10-15 years. Mr. Warwak stated that the Board should think about the students’ brains turning into sponges. Mr. Warwak stated that the District needs to stop serving meat and dairy as we are setting kids up for failure. There is a whole host of diseases they are going to get from this stuff…..that is all he had to say"
http://dist3. org/board/boardmin/07-08/Board_Min-2-25-08.pdf
http://inslide.com/foxrivergroveserveddowners.mp3 http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/safety/Hallmark-Westland_byState .pdfhttp://nwherald.com/articles/2008/03/01/opinion/letters/doc4 7ca193372f5d649795572.txt
Boycott Milk and Meat
in the
School Lunch Program
143 Million Pounds
of Ground-up Animals
Recalled
Most of which has
already been eaten
by unsuspecting children
No matter what anyone argues, schools feeding unsuspecting children the corpses of once living beings and promoting breast milk--complete with its blood, pus, and hormones--stolen from confined, drugged, and tortured creatures as normal and healthy beyond infancy is a socially, mentally, spiritually, and ecologically damaging, unnecessary crime against humanity.
Schools avoid Humane Education and teach students to be ignorant and apathetic. Miss-educated doctors scramble to find a cure for cancer; yet, wise vegans know prevention is the cure. So too, truly defeating ignorance and apathy lies within prevention. Humane Education teaches children the truth about our world and raises a generation that cares. The philosophy learned in classrooms today becomes the philosophy of society tomorrow.
Children deserve the truth and are the key to change. Children are the transmission of society. It is up to vegans to break the cycle of hereditary ignorance perpetrated by school boards who allow the meat and dairy industries to go after the very children we entrust them to protect. Milk mustache posters are an embarrassment to the educational system and a crime against humanity, far worse than Joe Camel, for they hang in an institution that children trust for truth. The indoctrination vegans fight so hard is ingrained in schools - the very place we should be working on prevention.
It is as if we willingly adopt meat-eaters’ attitudes that say their choice is a personal one and children are too young to chose wisely. This is exactly why we need to speak up for the voiceless, as those in charge have chosen poorly for our children. Do you remember, the 143 million pound Hallmark Westland Beef Recall? Do you remember how it affected schools, prisons, and the elderly? It is not a coincidence these unfortunate recipients have no choice. School boards have a, “They are only children†attitude towards our youth. Children deserve to know they can live an extra 10-15 years on a vegan diet. Hiding lifesaving information from children is criminal. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is nothing to sweep under the rug. I wonder how people will feel in 10 to 15 years when the children of today are the “dropping-like-flies†adults of tomorrow.
Elie Wiesel wrote, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented". Will Barack Obama’s lack of action torment children and animals? After all, Obama knows all about the problem.
http://veganschool101.blogspot.com/2008/12/will-obama-lead-b y-example.html
click here
http://inslide.com/respect/modules.php?name=News&file=ar ticle&sid=64
This is the impossible to find list of State agencies that track food shipments. They will tell you if your school has been supplied with beef from Westland.
click here
http://inslide.com/agencies.htm
The recall goes back to 2006. Don't believe their lies about "nothing to be alarmed about" Mad Cow is something to be alarmed about. Furthermore, no matter how "small" the risk is, it should not be fed to children in the school lunch program. Mad Cow takes 10 or more years to incubate. List of Illinois Schools that received recalled beef from Westland to see if your child ate it.
click here
http://www.isbe.net/nutrition/pdf/USDA_recall_school_list.pd f oops - see how fast they hide things!
"Fox River Grove Middle School is standing education on its head when it cracks down on instructors who teach our kids about kindness and good health," says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. "Mr. Warwak is exposing the meat industry's dirty secrets, and his students have every right to know the truth behind their food choices."
"I feel good when I speak the truth. I feel bad when I am silent. That is my religion"
http://inslide.com/respect
"If the school goes vegan, everything’s fine"
http://www.criticalmention.com/report/dave200709120156313434 .htm
Fox News Video - Warwak
"I would have loved if some guy dressed up as Santa gave me a present when I was a kid and that present was the truth"
Visit Vegan Santa at
Vegan Radio Thanksgiving with Warwak http://inslide.com/VeganRadio20071122.mp3
“This is not just about diet. Don't believe everything you see. The world is an illusion. Wake up. There are many things all around us made from animals that we never notice. We're so disconnected; we don't even notice this right in front of our face three times a day. When we open our circle of compassion to all, we grow as a people and our treatment of each other and others improves. It really is about peace, love, and compassion for all" Warwak
VegCast.com #33 podcast http://inslide.com/vegcast33.mp3
“How many more school shootings until we wake-up? Humane Education coupled with a vegan school lunch program will end school shootingsâ€
Bob Linden's Go Vegan Radio goveganradio.com interviews Warwak
http://inslide.com/go-vegan-with-bob-linden-2007-10-20.mp3
“History cares not of pride, nor, conformists, only to a gasp at how primitive they must have been; whereas, we always remember those who are able to change with great reverence, for they put aside pride and refused to conform to evil†Warwak
Children are the transmission of society. The meat and diary industries know this very well and do not mind going after kids in public schools all across the land. This sets the tone for the nation when we grow up. Meat and dairy is good and right in America - NOT! This "Hereditary Ignorance" is the machine we fight so hard against with the Adult meat-eating World. Bypass the Adult meat-eating madness, and enjoy speaking the truth to Children who still have open minds. Children are not afraid of change.
A Child's natural connection with Animals is the key to change. Tell a Child the truth before society strips them of their connection to the Natural World. We are Vegans and did nothing wrong and have no need to censor ourselves or hide the truth. It is the meat-eaters, like the cigarette smokers, who need to go off in the corner with their dirty habits.
I am just calling it as I see it without worrying about peer pressure. This is how the meat-eaters protect their system. They cry foul if you cry foul. They want silence. Vegans did nothing wrong and do not need to hide or be quiet.
“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world†Freire
"Kids don't care what you know till they know that you care" YeYe
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2757
Alan Eisenberg Radio Show WRJN AM 1400
http://inslide.com/716304.mp3
The Bob Rivers Show Seattle's Classic Rock Station CBS Radio in WA WKZOK 102.5 http://www.bobrivers.com DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST BELOW They try and gang up on me a bit!
http://inslide.com/bobriversshow_1.mp3
veganradio.com Vegan Radio talks of Warwak
http://inslide.com/VeganRadio.mp3
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My Lack of Courage
After reading today's Notmilk letter, you might be
motivated to send an email to a Chicago Tribune
reporter who wrote the story of a vegan teacher who
no longer teaches Chicago kids about milk's dangers.
You might also consider sending an email to today's
hero, a teacher by the name of Dave Warwak. Somebody
should make a movie about this man's exploits. I see
Robin Williams playing the feature role.
In past years, I have had the courage to walk into a
dairy class at Penn State university, facing two hundred
very angry sons and daughters of dairy farmers. Two
of them filed bogus charges against me with authorities.
One with the Penn State police, and one with the
United States Department of Agriculture anti-terrorism
squad who later showed up at my front door.
In past years, I have taken on Monsanto and gone to federal
court against The Company and their team of legal reps,
King & Spalding. In past years I have appeared on national
television and pointed my finger at USDA undersecretaries,
accusing them of conflicts of interests by working for the
dairy industry. I have accused congressmen and senators of
taking bribes. I have taken on two presidents, one of whom
enacted legislation (the Economic Espionage Act) directly
against me while I was in federal court seeking to get
Monsanto's smoking gun research (the Richard, Odaglia, &
Deslex study) legally released.
I have had dead animals accompanied by out of state
milk cartons thrown onto my lawn. The FBI has arrested
two people who made threats against me. One possessed
plastique explosives.
I have not feared many things, but there is one thing
above all which terrifies me, and I will forever avoid.
Local school systems.
Every mother has an agenda. Do I dare take on dairy in the
schools? No way! Been there, done that. One cannot beat
city hall or a local school system.
Not only do I fear local moms, but those spineless eunuchs
lacking principles, called principals.
Which brings me to this week's Chicago Tribune story.
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Vegan Teacher May Lose His Job
By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks, September 7, 2007
Dave Warwak has taught art at Fox River Grove Middle School
for eight years, and for most of that time, he was happy to
eat meatloaf, hot dogs or whatever else the cafeteria workers
dished out.
But in January he became a vegan and started spreading the
word about the benefits of a meatless diet to students at the
McHenry County school. He even built an exhibit out of candy
that depicted animals in cages and as road kill.
On Thursday, Warwak said his crusade might cost him his job.
He said he was told to stay away from class this week by
administrators he described as "ardent meat-eaters."
Warwak, of Williams Bay, Wis., near Lake Geneva, said he is
scheduled to meet with Fox River Grove District 3 officials
Monday about the discussions he's had in class about
vegetarianism, which excludes meats, and veganism, which
excludes meats and other animal products such as milk. Officials
asked him to leave the school Tuesday because he refused to stop talking about the harms humans cause animals, he said.
Principal Tim Mahaffy declined to comment Thursday, calling the
dispute a personnel issue. He would not discuss issues raised
by Warwak or verify the teacher's version of events.
The candy display came down after three days, when Mahaffy
decided it was too much of a "PETA advertisement," Warwak
said. The battle over diet lessons resumed this week after
Warwak distributed the book "The Food Revolution" to his
8th-grade students and talked to his classes about vegetarianism.
"It's probably one of the most life-changing books a person can
read," Warwak said of the book, written by John Robbins and
subtitled, "How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World."
"It's about how we're destroying the planet with pollution from
factory farming," Warwak said. "It's about health. It's about
living longer."
Neither the American Civil Liberties Union nor the Illinois
Education Association had an opinion on the case, but Warwak
drew support from animal rights advocates.
"We believe that in a time when there's so much violence,
especially in schools, that teachers who show kindness and
compassion for all life should be commended," said Nathan
Runkle, executive director of the Chicago-based Mercy for
Animals advocacy group, which lobbies against factory farms.
"It's appropriate for students to learn about the horrendous
cruelty that animals endure on factory farms, and about the
benefits of a healthy diet."
Runkle said his group plans to write a letter to the school
in support of Warwak.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is
giving Warwak its "Compassionate Educator" award, vice president Bruce Friedrich said. The group is also sending the school a letter in support of the teacher.
Warwak, meanwhile, sees no problem discussing the topic he cares about passionately during art classes.
"It's art in every way," he said. "Art is something different
for everyone...Art is like philosophy."
District 3 Supt. Jacqueline Krause was out of the office
Thursday and unavailable for comment. Warwak, who said he
makes $55,000 per year, said he feels a responsibility to
warn his students about the dangers of what he calls an
unhealthy diet and to open their minds to new ideas.
"I'm telling kids, 'Don't believe everything you see and
everything you read,'" he said. "I'm trying to get them
curious enough to check things out for themselves."
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I lack the courage to do what this teacher has done. I
will never again try to take on my local school system.
My children went through years of ridicule and tireless
Gotmilk jokes after my first (successful) attempt to
change the milk from GMO to organic in 1994. I have
learned my lesson.
Your letter of support can be forwarded to Jeff Long,
the reporter.
[email protected]
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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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