powerful rock'n'roll...

can't wait for you to come home george...

needed to share this again (come on Tim Minchin, another 'updated' song is surely needed!!!) george pell, treasurer of the vatican for the past 3 years, couldn't come home last year as a witness in catholic 'child sexual abuse' cases - committed decades ago (those discovered so far) due to 'ill health', which is when this song was written... well, finally he has been charged (long overdue) here in australia and it appears the vatican is making him come home to 'clear himself'... finally george, justice might be served to the victims of your paedophile priesthood... we can't wait for you to come home george...

a powerful video...

Cate Evens - Running scared - such a beautiful, powerful voice, such powerful words...
"This is one of the most important songs that we've ever written. It goes out to every animal on this planet that is being humiliated, tortured and killed by mankind..."

never stay silent... don't look away... they are all someone, not something...

#icantkeepquiet... #womynsmarch...

this song is brilliant... "These women practised this amazing song online and performed it during the women's march on Washington"... let's never keep quiet...

my tears are flowing...

my best friend of 45 years died today...

at least there is no more pain sweet sister... but i will miss you
with all my heart Irenie...

what the fuck america???

gobsmacked... america chose a misogynist, racist, speciesist, rich white man - anyone other than a womon - what the fuck america??? 

i read a brilliant piece on feminist current - "...Hillary lost, not because she was a bad candidate, but because she is a woman. White men won this election. Fear won this election — fear of the “other,” fear of losing power, jobs, money, guns, property, and privilege. Hatred won too — of minorities, refugees, people of colour, and, of course, women. The absolute unwillingness, on the parts of white Americans, to consider a woman as president won. Even women voted against themselves — for a man who doesn’t see them as equal, never mind human. Who, quite frankly, hates them." http://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/11/09/america-really-hates-women/ 

i also came across this stunning, says it all graphic (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwzL_xYVIAA_cLK.jpg) ...

barbara kingsolver wrote a thought-provoking article published in the guardian - End this misogynistic horror show. Put Hillary Clinton in the White House - which is well worth a read...

i'm still stunned, needed to say something because it's horrifying on so many levels - it's just made this world that little more scary - yet again, what the fuck america???

why am i vegan?

Do Animals WANT To Be Eaten?

are they complicit in their own enslavement and happy to die for human 'tradition' and consumerism? are you one of those people who believes this absurdity? then check out what emily of bite size vegan has to say - succinct, so very true, as usual just brilliantly articulated...

it's time to change this world, time to stop the disconnect, time to end the cognitive dissonance, time to take the blinkers off and end the horror... veganism is imperative if earth and earth's myriad occupants are to survive... humans are not superior, we are just one of earth's many sentient beings - however we are the earthling species which has placed itself as dominant, participated voluntarily in the subjugation, terror and torture of others and proudly adopted brutality and destruction as our trademark and legacy...

sadly i no longer care if humanity survives - if 'we' don't change how we live and interact with our other-species kin and the planet then we're fucked anyway, but i do care about those we've denied equality to, those we have ensured remain voiceless and choiceless in this speciesist society we have created - we have no right to rapaciously destroy their home and continue to murder them...

please, go vegan for all earthling species, and for earth itself...

(by the way, if you're interested you can find 'suicide food' mentioned in emily's video at http://suicidefood.blogspot.com.au/ and check out 'suicidal tendencies' in the sidebar)

the herd..

known as the first feminist horror movie... "The Herd replaces female cows with female humans, and by doing so hopes to promote a greater understanding of the suffering inflicted upon cows in the dairy industry..."

http://www.whitelies.org.uk/resources/video-footage/herd

stop the disconnect...

that 'australia day' ad...

this ad, by aussie farms, is the one that should be on television... "...what it really means to eat lamb on Australia Day..." - read more at https://www.facebook.com/AussieFarms/posts/1723952881166679...

i am so over the horrific carnist advertising pushed at any 'celebratory time' (although carnist crap is 'there' all year, it's just so fucking more full on at the moment, coming up to australia/invasion day)... i am so over having dismembered body parts of others in my face wherever i turn and the smell of decaying flesh in my nostrils whenever i breath - walking down the street, shopping at the supermarket, and the staff kitchen is somewhere to stay away from at lunch times - and then there's the smell of burning flesh from the barbecues on balconies and in backyards that surround my home, my sanctuary... help stop the animal holocaust - go vegan...

a beautiful tribute...

you may have watched some of bite size vegan's videos - i've shared a few over the years - however this one i'm about to share is one of her most personal stories... you see emily's beautiful companion ooby died last week - a beautiful canine girl, a 'bulldog' born and bred to human specifications, human dictates as to how she should look, regardless of the health problems that designer-breeding would cause...

it is beautiful and yet heart-wrenching... it is a tribute to ooby, and to emily's love and guardianship, yet it is also a sad testament to the horror that the breeding of animals by profiteers to be sold as commodities, chattels, has wrought on many animals...

in emily's words - "This is the story of Ooby the bulldog. It’s a story worth knowing. For every purebred dog suffering from man-made afflictions, for every homeless or abandoned dog out there, let Ooby’s story and her life help change how we treat our companions.

farewell beautiful ooby...

please adopt, don't shop - there are far too many languishing in shelters waiting for their chance to experience love, happiness, companionship...

the vegan revolution is happening...

and people say vegans don't have a sense of humour...

i just had to share this.... as someone on google+ commented after viewing it - 'it's thug kitchen meets martha stewart'...

please, go vegan - for the animals, the planet and because it's the right thing to do....

draw my life...

one of my favourite vegan activists, emily of bite size vegan, has put together the following video which speaks volumes on the short life of farmed turkeys from the viewpoint of one young turkey... it is poignant, moving, eye-opening - there is no 'real life' graphic horror footage here, just a simple illustrated story that hopefully you find thought provoking...

if this touched you, perhaps you may also find the draw my life videos on the vegan break site illustrated by vegan artist sooyeon jang - 'a chickens life', 'a pigs life', 'the life of a dog in south korea' - as impactful as i did - please take the time to view them, they are breathtakingly moving... http://www.veganbreak.com/vegan-draw-my-life/

love, the bond that ties...

did you know my mother? 

by mary lynn

Did you know my mother?

I'm told her name was Belle.

I don't know what she looked like

but have memories of her smell.

Did you ever hear my mother?

Did her cries pull at your heart?

I remember them quite clearly

when the men pulled us apart.

Did you drink from my mother?

Did you ever taste her milk?

Did you feel her face against yours?

Was her skin as soft as silk?

I've been told I had two brothers,

and my sister's numbered four,

Then my mother went to slaughter

of no value anymore.

Were you there with my mother?

Did you look into her eyes?

Did you see the fear within them?

Did you listen to her cries?

And now MY end is coming,

I am waiting with my friends,

We are huddled close together

In this place where all life ends.

Will you be there at our slaughter?

For the flesh you want to eat.

Will you ever think about us?

When you buy that piece of meat.

It’s my turn now, I’m moving,

I am going to my end.

I am urged with shouts and kicking

and with sticks that never bend.

I am thinking of my mother

and remembering her smell.

And I know we'll meet in Heaven

and forget this life called Hell.

Weronika Kolinska has created some stunning black and white artwork reproducing this poem graphically which adds even more poignancy if that's possible...

and this is the perfect post to share this video of a reunion between a mother and her child - beautiful - it's something no mother or child should ever have to experience, they should never be forcibly separated... you can read more on the background to this heart-rending/heart-warming story "Crying Mother Cow Greets Lost Baby In Breathtaking Reunion" 

as the saying goes...

a picture paints a thousand words and these powerful images by dana ellyn brilliantly portray the reality of the sentient beings hidden behind a language that strips them of their species, their uniqueness, their individuality, their lives, to become the victims of human food choices...

eggs & bacon

bacon cheeseburger

four wrongs don't make a right

 you can view more of dana's stunning imagery at

http://www.danaellyn.com/portfolio151.html

what will your next meal be? please go vegan, for the animals, the planet and because it's the right thing to do, the moral thing to do, the ethical thing to do...

they go hand in hand...

feminism and veganism...

feminism - "The goal of feminism is to dismantle the hierarchical system that values certain groups over others: men over women, whites over blacks, straights over gays and so on. This false hierarchy permits the exploitation of those at the bottom by the powerful at the top. But mainstream feminism is failing to include non-human animals in the equation – and this needs to change..." from 'feminism must stop ignoring animals' by ruby hamad...

veganism - is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practicable - all forms of animal exploitation and cruelty for any reason, including medicine, food, clothing, entertainment or for any other purpose... in dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals. In short, veganism is a philosophical position and not a diet... from 'your vegan fallacy is...', a wonderful new resource that has many articles on the misconceptions surrounding veganism...

this is the latest vegan street meme - why not check out the vegan street blog, 
formerly known as vegan feminist agitator

do you call yourself a feminist? do you believe in equality for all? do you believe in reproductive rights? do you believe our bodies belong to us? have you made the connection yet? then surely you believe in every sentient beings right to live their lives free from harm, free from enslavement, free from exploitation... if so your next logical step has to be veganism, it is a moral imperative, the ethical baseline that really will change this world...

want some 'brain food' - check out the blog 'there's an elephant in the room' - just brilliant...

another farewell...

and the end of an era for me...

5.5.1926 - 13.4.2015

eileen, 'aunty eil', my mother's best friend of 80 years, died on monday, april 13 at 11.05am... she was such a strong presence throughout my life... she was feisty, funny, one of a kind and i love her deeply...

she was recently diagnosed with secondary liver cancer, given 2 months to live, but she didn't last that long, dying 2 weeks after diagnosis... she lost her spark long before that though - she was heartbroken when my mother died 9 months ago - she'd lost her lifelong friend, her confidante, her 'soulmate'... i will miss her terribly but am thankful she never lingered to suffer at length..

her funeral was yesterday and lots of stories and laughs were shared and many tears shed, and we all got a giggle as she made her final journey to the soundtrack of the number 96 tram that went past her building every day... eileen and judy lived on the esplanade in st kilda opposite the beach, with a tram stop virtually out the front for the last 20 years of their lives - they loved their flats and never felt comfortable if they couldn't see the beach and hear the trams - those two things epitomised home to them both so it was a classic, fitting farewell...

bye eil, you were always there for me... i'll miss our conversations and laughs together, i'll miss the shoulder you always offered in my times of need, i'll miss you wonderful womonxxx

stop the excuses...

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