The Animal Voice

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Laura Moretti Laura Moretti is the Founder and Editor of ‘The Animals Voice.’ She is also an author, animal rescuer, and lobbyist, as well as holds the title of various other forms of animal defense activism. For 10 years, Laura rescued horses for a sanctuary she operated in northern California. She has been an animal rights activist since the age of 10 and was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2004.

Abstract and Keywords Our worldview is made of animals. Our views of animals determine how we see nature—the living world, as well as our part in it. Pre-agricultural peoples were intrigued by animals, their behaviors, and powers. In these totemic societies, animals were seen as First Beings, ancestors, and there was a sense of kinship and continuity with the living world. Domestication upends that and reduces animals from souls and powers to tools and commodities.

Laura Moretti Laura Moretti is the Founder and Editor of ‘The Animals Voice.’ She is also an author, animal rescuer, and lobbyist, as well as holds the title of various other forms of animal defense activism. For 10 years, Laura rescued horses for a sanctuary she operated in northern California. She has been an animal rights activist since the age of 10 and was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2004.

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“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.” –Buddha “One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures.” –Bhagavad Gita “He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.” –Isaiah “We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe “I’m stopped.

I understand vegetarian, as the animal must be killed for me to eat. But why vegan? —Adrianne M. (via email). Thank you for the question, Adrianne, and thanks for reading VegCurious?, too! This is a question I hear less frequently than in the past, which is a positive sign. Veganism is making progress. Still, it’s a good exercise to revisit the reasons (and differences) between vegetarian and vegan, and I’m happy to talk about them.

Advocacy is a lifetime commitment. If you have a movement that’s trying to attract new people, and that’s losing old people faster than it can attract new people, then it’s going backwards rather than forward. The most important thing I have to say to any animal rights activist today is that you need to be an animal rights activist tomorrow. And the next day. And the next...

Takes sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. –Elie Wiesel If ever there were a completely gratuitous abuse of animals, and often baby animals at that, all done for the sheer thrill and bravado of it, it is rodeo.

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” –A. Whitney Brown To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. –Buddha One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures. –Bhagavad Gita He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human. –Isaiah We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father.