MY NAME IS DAVID RAT....I WRITE POETRY ABOUT JESUS AND HEROIN...I PLAY DRUMS IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND...I FIGHT FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS LIKE A MISPLACED JOAN OF ARC...
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This could be heaven for everyone
This world could be fed,
this world could be fun
This could be heaven for everyone
This world could be free,
this world could be one...
-Freddie Mercury-
R.I.P.
The Missus...
i can't believe she's mine either...
Come down sparrow, sing me good morning
Rise up sun like arch of the sky...
Living river, turn light to diamonds
When I look in my true love's eyes....
There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire human population. So why are more than 840 million people still going hungry?
Our meat-based diet is to blame, as land, water, and other resources that could be used to grow food for human beings are being used to grow crops for farmed animals instead. Crops that could be used to feed the hungry are instead being used to fatten animals raised for food." It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh.
The average adult human burns about 2000 calories per day, just living his or her life. We use almost all the calories that we consume to move around, breathe, and do everyday tasks. The same is true of farmed animals. For every pound of food that they are fed, only a fraction of the calories are returned in the form of edible flesh. The rest of those calories are burned away raising the animal to slaughter weight.This is why animals raised for food have to eat as many as 16 pounds of grain to create just 1 pound of edible flesh.
Because the industrial world is exporting grain to developing countries and importing the meat that is produced with it, farmers who are trying to feed themselves are being driven off their land. Their efficient, plant-based agricultural model is being replaced with intensive livestock rearing, which also pollutes the air and water and renders the once-fertile land dead and barren.If this trend continues, the developing world will never be able to produce enough food to feed itself, and global hunger will continue to plague hundreds of millions of people around the globe. There is only one solution: "It now seems plain that a vegetarian diet is the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue."
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being... Mahatma Gandhi
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- Jack Kerouac
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DO ANIMALS HAVE SOULS?
by stacy mantle
In over twenty years of working with animals, I have never seen a kitten duct-tape a live human baby to a freeway. I also have never seen a cat find enjoyment from setting a human on fire. I've never gone hiking in the desert to find a child that dogs have left tied to a stake, without food and water, subjecting it to a painful death in the desert heat. I have never seen a chicken force two unwilling humans to fight in a ring with razor blades attached to their feet while the chickens place bets on who will be the first to die. I haven't seen a puppy place eight children in a gunnysack and drown them in a river. Neither have I seen an eagle aim a shotgun at an unarmed human. I have yet to see a bear kill a human simply to place a head on the wall of their cave. And to this day, I have not seen a pigeon drive a car down the road and aim for humans who were walking around the park.
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I HAVE SEEN...I have seen my own cats sleep next to me so they may keep me a little warmer while I was ill. I've seen my dogs play games with me just to force a smile to my face. I have seen a cat rush into a burning home not once, not twice, but six times to save her kittens, nearly losing her own life in the process. I have seen a ferret pull a frightened kitten out of a deep hole in the ground. I have seen a coyote fetch another dog so that it may get the proper medical care that it needs. I've seen a dog, who loves to jump on people, avoid jumping on me when I injured my back. I've seen elephants cry. I've seen monkeys scream in empathy when one of their own were injured. I've seen puppies whine all night long when they were separated from their mothers. I've seen a dog pull a child away from a fire.
what does God think about our nation? From God's perspective, looking down upon this beautiful planet he created, I think God sees that our country is only 4.7% of the world's population, but that we hoard, dominate and control over 60% of the world's resources. We take oil and other natural resources from poorer nations, and ignore their poverty and starvation. We are the richest nation in the history of the world and we can do so much good, yet over two billion people live in misery; 800 million people are malnourished; and some 50,000 people die of starvation every day--and we do nothing about it, except make it worse. I think God wants our nation to end world hunger, poverty and war, and if we tried to do this, to share our wealth with the world's poor, we would cut the roots of terrorism and win everyone over.... So yes.......
If it be your will
If there is a choice...
Let the rivers fill
Let the hills rejoice..
Let your mercy spill
On all these
burning hearts in hell...
If it be your will
To make us well......
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More than 319,000 harp seals will be clubbed or shot to death this year in Canada. 96% of them will be less than 3 months old, and some will be skinned alive. Your clicks support airtime for IFAW's TV campaign to build public pressure against this cruel and inhumane hunt...
blessed is he who shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness....
The animals of this world ... were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men....
"Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict. Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats present and past. Love? What is It? Most natural painkiller that there is. LOVE." --Last thing written by Burroughs three days before he died.
of course my favorite drummer and greatest influence....ANIMAL from THE MUPPET BAND...
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.... A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses...
George Bernard Shaw
The picture below is of "Teddy." He adopted me...He is an ex-fighter. His ears were cut off without any anesthesia by the inhumane people who fought him. He was kept in a dark shed after he was rescued because no one wanted him and he had to be hidden from shelters and authorities due to
breed specific legislation...
THIS DOG HAS NEVER HURT ANYONE!
IF THERE IS A GOD,ONE DAY THE TABLES WILL TURN
AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE HURT/KILLED/ABUSED ANIMALS
WILL CRY OUT FOR HELP
BUT NO ONE WILL HEAR THOSE CRIES...
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. ~Neal Barnard, M.D.-
DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS
DEAR ENEMIES AND FRIENDS...
Why are we all so alone here?
All we need is a little more hope, a little more joy...
All we need is a little more light,
a little less weight,
a little more freedom....
If we were an army,
and if we believed that we were an army...
And we believed that everyone was scared...
like little lost children...
in their grown up clothes and poses..
So we ended up alone here...
floating through long wasted days, or great tribulations...
While everything felt wrong...
Good words, strong words, words that could've moved mountains...
Words that no one ever said..
We were all waiting to hear those words and no one ever said them..
And the tactics never hatched...
And the plans were never mapped...
And we all learned not to believe...
And strange lonesome monsters loafed through the hills...
wondering why...
And it is best to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever wonder why...
So tangle - oh tangle us up in bright red ribbons!
Let's have a parade....
It's been so long since we had a parade,
so let's have a parade!
Let's invite all our friends...
And all our friends' friends!
Let's promenade down the boulevards with terrific pride and light in our eyes..
Twelve feet tall and staggering...
Sick with joy with the angels there..
and light in our eyes...
Brothers and sisters,
hope still waits in the wings like a bitter spinster..
Impatient, lonely and shivering,
waiting to build her glorious fires....
It's because of our plans man;
our beautiful ridiculous plans..
Let's launch them like careening jetplanes...
Let's crash all our planes in the river.....
Let's build strange and radiant machines...
at this jericho..
waiting to fall....
Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission--to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
~ St. Francis of Assisi-
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921-