<>  <>"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
~ Leonardo da Vinci

Plato, Greek philosopher, (circa 428-347 B.C.):

"The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds."

Thomas Alva Edison, American Inventor - 1847-1931

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."

What do all the attractive people have in common ?  They are vegetarians TO NAME A FEW

Pamela Anderson     Drew Barrymore,     Kim Basinger,     Julie Brown     Clint Eastwood     Michael J. Fox     Richard Gere      Ashley Judd     Anthony Hopkins     Daryl Hannah     Jude Law     Steve Martin     Demi Moore     Brittany Murphy     Paul Newman     Gwyneth Paltrow     Guy Pearce     Brad Pitt     Natalie Portman     Stephanie Powers     Robert Redford     Julia Roberts     Steven Seagal     William Shatner     Brooke Shields     Alicia Silverstone     Liv Tyler     Naomi Watts     Lindsy Wagner     Vince Vaughn

VICTORY !  LETTER FROM PETA 

Dear Francine,

For more than five years, PETA US has pressured fast-food chain KFC to ensure its suppliers halt the worst abuses of chickens, including scalding birds to death, cutting their throats while they're still conscious, and drugging and breeding them to grow so large that they become crippled beneath their own weight.

Following months of closed-door negotiations between PETA US and KFC Canada, which is owned by a different company than KFC restaurants in other countries, we are thrilled to announce that the company has agreed to a historic new animal welfare plan that will dramatically improve the lives and deaths of millions of chickens killed for KFC Canada. The company will take the following actions:

• Phase in purchases of 100 per cent of its chicken meat from suppliers that use controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK) – the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed.
• KFC Canada is the first major restaurant chain to commit to phasing in the exclusive purchasing of chicken meat from CAK slaughterhouses.
• Add a vegan faux-chicken item to the menu of all 461 Priszm-owned KFC restaurants (more than half the KFCs in Canada).
• Improve its animal welfare audit criteria to reduce the number of broken bones and other injuries suffered by birds at the hands of KFC Canada's suppliers.
• Urge its suppliers to adopt better practices, including improved lighting, lower stocking-density and ammonia levels, and a phase-out of growth-promoting drugs and breeding practices that painfully cripple chickens.
• Form an animal welfare advisory panel to monitor the changes and recommend further advancements.

PETA US has scored a major victory and is ending its boycott of KFC in Canada. However, the boycott will continue in other countries where KFC has restaurants, including the UK, until those KFCs follow KFC Canada's lead.

This is wonderful news for chickens and our supporters. However, outside Canada, KFC has not acted to stop the worst abuses of chickens. Please pledge to boycott these restaurants until they take action.

Sincerely

PETA Europe

In 1986 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian^[10] and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and many personal belongings. Today she is a strong animal rights activist and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat. In support of animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country. She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada, though her request for a meeting was denied

 She has donated more than $140,000 over two years for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest's stray dogs, estimated to number 300,000.^[15] She is planning to house many of these stray animals in a new animal rescue facility that she is having built on her property.

Bardot expressed support for President Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.^[7][16] Her husband Bernard d'Ormal is a former adviser of the far right "Front National" party.^[8][16] Bardot has been convicted five times for "inciting racial hatred".

In 1997 she was fined for her comments published in Le Figaro newspaper^[17].

In 1998 she was convicted for making a statement about the growing number of mosques in France^[17].

In a book she wrote in 1999, called "Le Carre de Pluton" (Pluto's Square), she criticizes the procedure used in the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. For the comments, a French court fined her 30,000 francs in June 2000.^[18][19]

In a 2001 article named, Open Letter to My Lost France, she said: "...my country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims."^[17][19]

In her 2003 book, A Scream in the Silence, she warned of the “Islamicization of France”, and said of Muslim immigration:

"Over the last twenty years, we have given in to a subterranean, dangerous, and uncontrolled infiltration, which not only resists adjusting to our laws and customs but which will, as the years pass, attempt to impose its own."^{[20]  (coppied and pasted from Wikipedia.org)}

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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 D. Barnard, M.D., President Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

"Imagine the publicity if someone announced that they have developed a new treatment that cured 40 percent of all people with cancer. The media would be jumping up and down. That kind of benefit can be achieved today just by following a vegetarian diet. Right there you have an answer and no one's listening." -Oliver Alabaster, M.D., Director of the institute for Disease Prevention, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

"Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, including obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer." J Am Diet Assoc. 1997;97:1317-1321.

"The way that we breed animals for food is a threat to the planet. It pollutes our environment while consuming huge amounts of water, grain, petroleum, pesticides, and drugs. The results are disastrous." -David Brubaker, PhD, Center for a Livable future, John Hopkins University, Environmental News Network, 9/20/99

"I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house." - Rodney Leonard- U.S. Poultry inspection "Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not to eat meat." - Gregorio Natavidad- Meat inspector

"I have no intention of eating a fish from the East River. They're not safe to eat." - Mayor White of Cleveland "Some people are still going to want to eat meat...we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet." - David Stroud of the American Meat Institute

"Ounce for ounce, chicken has essentially the same cholesterol content as beef and nearly as much fat. Two-thirds of retail chicken products harbor deadly microbes such as salmonella and campylobacter. Grilled chicken is especially high in cancer-causing heterocyclic amines, chemicals that form under cooking temperatures according to National Cancer Institute tests. Switching from red meat to small servings of white meat lowers cholesterol only about 5 percent and offers little help for weight problems." - Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, President Neal D. Barnard, M.D.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein "

If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat." - Leonardo-da-Vinci

"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." - Leo Tolstoy

"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder." - Benjamin Franklin "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." - Pythagoras

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the suffering of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." - Romain Rolland--Nobel Prize Winner

 "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." - Thomas Edison

"Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you-alas, it is true of almost every one of us!" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 "To produce a single pound of meat takes an average of 2,500 gallons of water-as much as a typical family uses for all its combined household purposes in a month." - John Robbins: Diet for A New America

"Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?" -Peter Cheeke, PhD, Contemporary issues In Animal agriculture, 1999

 "Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." -Albert Einstein, letter dated 1950, quoted in H. Eves' Mathematical Circles Adieu, 1977

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? But, can they suffer?" -Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals & Legislation, 1789

 "It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold." -Peter Singer, Princeton University Philosopher and author of Animal Libertarian

"Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw "Humans-

who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals-have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them- without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer...They are just too much like us." -Dr. Carl Sagan & Dr. Ann Druyan Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1992

"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to fore only when its recipient has no power. Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." - Gandhi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does." - Margaret Mead