Yule kill babies

Yup, it's that time of year again. Retail outlets groan under the weight of fairy lights, plastic ornaments and thousands of trinkets that nobody needs. Household carbon emissions skyrocket as humans compete with one another as to who can use the most electricity in the tackiest manner and friends and family sit down to eat dead babies.
Oh yes, Christmas is wonderful. I wonder how Christ would feel about his birthday being celebrated via mass murder and desperate consumption? I have trouble imagining Jesus with a Lamb under one be-robed arm and a knife held under it's quivering little neck.
I cannot really reconcile the 'Prince of Peace' smiling benignly as a tottering calf is lead trustingly to the bolt-gun.
Please people, if you have any compassion this Christmas, consider not contributing to the vaults of death and fear this festive season.
Lamb =baby sheep, frightened, torn away from its mother and slaughtered before it knows what life is
Veal -baby cow, as above and locked in a crate, fed a diet deficient in iron for whiter meat, and hacked to pieces.
The worst part of this? Many people will read this blog, laugh uproariously and make a joke about quaffing baby things.
I know you don't want to think about it, but it's time to. If you have any compassion left in you, why not try the amazing array of fruit and vegetable available to us in this country for Christmas? A huge platter of tropical fruits, roast potatoes with rosemary and sea-salt, sweet-potato pate and crackers, French salad with avocado. asparagus, walnuts and nashi pears, green beans with garlic and chilli, roasted cauliflower with garlic pepper, stuffed zucchini (rice, tomato, lentils, spices), glazed pumpkin with toasted almonds and cumin, Lychees drizzled with passionfruit and Grand Marnier, Grilled Flat Mushrooms stuffed with pesto, Char-grilled corn with chilli, Thai rice balls, Polenta and Char-grilled meditteranean veges, Tapioca pudding made with Soy, Rice or almond milk, Sweet-corn and zucchini fritters with fresh tomato salsa, Fried aubergine fritters, Baked tofu stuffed with wild rice and mushrooms, .....
Hunger =stuffed!
Tastebuds = truly overwhlemed
Trans Fats =negligible
Cruelty =none

This is not a difficult concept people. Choose not to contribute to death this Christmas.

Greater Minds Say....

I thought it about time that I shared some of the amazing and inspiring quotes regarding animals that keep me going.
Before I do though, here's an amusing aside: Reading through some short stories written by Yr 7's the other day, I came across a spelling error that made me laugh out loud;

'Homosidle maniac'.

Beware of sneaky Gay men exhibiting maniacal behaviour....(chortle)

'The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men' [Emil Zola 1840-1902]

'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 1851-1939]

'Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimetal', you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic', they mean they are going to make money out of it' [Brigid Brophy 1929-1995]

'One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthy of sharing this planet with them. I have a dream...[Martin Luther King].

'If Americans were to reduce their meat consumption by only 10% for one year, it would free at least 12 million tons of grain for human consumption -or enough to feed 60 million people...Indeed if Americans were to stop eating grain-fed beef altogether the grain thus released woud be enough to feed all the 600 million people in India' [from 'Animal Liberation'. Peter Singer 1983]

'If man's aspirations towards right living are serious...he will first abstain from animal food because...its use is simply immoral, as it requires the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling -killing' [Leo Tolstoy]

'I for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled form of dead bodies, and claimed as daily foo and dainty dishes what bt now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice' [Plutarch].

'To undertake to lay down universally valid distinctions of value between different kinds of life will end in judging them by the greater or lesser distance at which they stand from us human beings -as we ourselves judge. But that is a purely sunjective criterion. Who amongst us knows what significance any other kind of life has in itself and as part of the universe?' [Albert Schweitzer]

Of course, there are dozens more, but they're my favourites. Happy reading!

....Homosidle....heh heh....