Vegan! at LeafShadows

Grand Total

rift — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:28:47 +0000

Blogging every thirty minutes for 24 hours straight in Blogathon 2007 equals

$585.84 raised for Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary!!!

Yay to my 23 sponsors! And Yay to the people who supported me in the comments!

There is still a little time before the sponsorships officially close. But I was so excited about who is going to win in the sponsor drawing, that I went ahead and put everyone’s name into my big green bowl…

I tried to convince Tegan to pick the winners… but she says Everyone who donates to Peaceful Prairie is a winner!!!

laugh, I explained to her that we can’t give all the sponsors tee shirts or tote bags (sorry!).

The winners are Alhena and Lee P. YAY!!! Also the first person to sponsor me, Laloofah, gets a teeshirt as well!

ALL sponsors who are interested in receiving a newsletter and bumper sticker from Peaceful Prairie, just let me know and we’ll get you on the mailing list!

AND, for any of my sponsors who are animal activists: you may request up to 200 FREE leaflets from Peaceful Prairie! You can mix and match from their five different pamphlets listed at The Prairie Press.

Thank you again, everyone! This has been such a great experience and I am just thrilled at the outcome!

49 a happy ending

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:55:35 +0000

A “happily ever after” is what I wish for all animals.

You can help! By going vegan!

A great big Thank You to my sponsors! You’ll be getting a email from Blogathon in a couple days reminding you to go donate. And once the sponsorships close, we can see who wins teeshirts/tote bags from Peaceful Prairie.

Yay!

48 :)

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:29:07 +0000

Just a little 5:30am reminder: Peaceful Prairie is the coolest!

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47: bad

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:59:58 +0000

Yeah, it’s getting tougher. I’m sure there are plenty of things to type about. I just … well, I was going to say I just don’t care any more. But that’s not it. It’s more like my brain wants to simplify everything down:

Dog fighting: bad.
That guy what’s his name: evil.
Rooster fighting: bad.
People who do that: evil.
Everyone knows these things are bad and the people who do them are evil.
But then if they have to do something about the dogs and their people… then they will definitely have to do something about the roosters as well… and oh, we eat those ones, don’t we? hm, that ain’t gonna work.

Current conditions: Overcast 60°F (16°C) humidity 83%

Bloggy Style Enthusiasm Level: Two more posts? uuuggghh.

46: Me towards the end

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:30:27 +0000

Tough to take a pic that doesn’t make me look horribly hideous! ha. Me, wrapped up in my blanket with the little fan in the window behind me.

And sunrise doesn’t occur until… 5:57am.

And I seriously need to reboot. I’m amazed at how well my computer has held up. ‘course I did a bit of coddling to accommodate it’s lack of RAM. But still!

Current Conditions: Overcast 59°F (15°C) humidity 88%

45: um!

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:00:26 +0000

…

SO says “Think globally act locally. Be the good example.”

I say. Why isn’t everybody vegan yet?

44: In Memory Of

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:29:32 +0000

I would like to take this 30 minutes to remember Virgil Butler. He was The Cyberactivist, the guy who worked as a killer in a chicken slaughter house. and then turned it all around, went vegan and became an animal activist and rescued chickens (and dogs and cats…).

He died this past December.

His partner is taking care of the animals. She is having a hard time. They were soul mates.

43: “Extreme”

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:59:41 +0000

People think that being vegan is “extreme”. When I was vegetarian, I used to think that.

Now that I am vegan, it’s the other way around. I see the extreme suffering caused by meat eaters. I see the astronomical numbers of animals killed every year. I see the devastating effect on the environment that using animals for food has. That’s extreme.

I eat vegetables. What’s extreme about that, again?

Current conditions: Overcast 60°F (16°C) humidity 86%

Bloggy Style Enthusiasm Level: oh, hey, SO is still awake and calling out the time!

42: and Fiction

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:34:11 +0000

I am usually go for science fiction when reading novels, but there’s also a fantasy sub-genre that I love called Animal Fiction. This is where the animals tell the story. Watership Down. Wind in the Williows.

One book from this genre definitely fits into my vegan theme. Richard Adam’s _Plague Dogs_, a story about two dogs who escape from an animal testing lab. It’s heart wrenching, especially knowing this book was written in1977 and there are still animal testing labs doing the exact same things to dogs and so many other animals.

Go Vegan, and don’t use products tested on animals!

Bloggy Style Enthusiasm Level: SO was calling out at the half hours, telling me to post. That was nice. But now he’s in bed again because he has work to goto tomorrow.

41: 2am… books

rift — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:01:23 +0000

So, that’s my list of books in the Animal, non fiction section.

Okay, lets see.

_Kinship With All Life_ is a tiny book by J. Allen Boone about a guy who takes the time to talk to animals. Brilliant!

_Living on the Edge_ is by Jeff Corwin, and I’ve blogged about him and his annoying non-vegetarian stupidities. But the book is good with great photos.

Oh! _Intro to Animal Rights_ is by Gary Francione (of Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach ) excellent book, and I’ve got his other book _Thunder_ in my pile: to be read.

_Unnatural Order_ was another good one. Jim Mason.

Current conditions: Overcast 61°F (16°C) humidity 83% and now I’m wrapped up in a blanket with the fan still blowing at me.

Bloggy Style Enthusiasm Level: um. Feeling “unnaturally” good. So I’m drinking a soda so I can crash and feel crappy in a little while. ha!