“It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.” PeopleKnowsMeanHelpingTurnsJesusPleasureAnimalRoomsCompassionCreationBuildingCreaturesEatingEthicsStandingBoxesCreatorLocalsConsumersStreamsPlatesDiscipleSteersBerriesHamburgersCalvesBuilding Relationships Author:Leonard Sweet
“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.” PeopleGivingJobsLawCausesAnimalModernCitizensCreaturesPerceptionStandingDestructionBlameFinalsIndividualityDelightVarietyHolinessReverenceChaptersConservationAbstractionInsistencePsalmsDestruction Of Nature Author:Wendell Berry
“The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.” PeopleNeedsAnimalArmsGoes OnStandingCameras Author:David Attenborough
“Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.” IfsNeedsHumansLongBodySpiritChangeAnimalTreeSourcePerspectiveEternalLong TimeStandingConnectedAcceptedExceptionLiving ThingsLong Time AgoPhysical Body Author:Esther Hicks