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  • Another Chance

    Another Chance

    When we advocate for the widespread adoption of vegan values, we speak for the entire population of humanity’s victims, including once-glorious landscapes that have been preyed upon rather than protected.

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  • What’s Wrong with Backyard Eggs?

    What's Wrong with Backyard Eggs?

    As we look more closely at the reality of the backyard chicken trend, it becomes increasingly clear that it is the same commodification of animals, packaged in niche marketing to appeal to the modern “conscious consumer”.

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  • Seven Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes

    Seven Delicious Vegan Cookie Recipes

    Although our diet is based around organic whole foods, anyone who knows us will attest to the fact that we are somewhat obsessed with sweet treats and baked goods.

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  • Rewarded for Being Vegan

    Rewarded for Being Vegan

    From eliminating asthma and hayfever to curing chronic conditions and diseases, a vegan diet offers benefits to anyone and everyone.

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  • Natural Flavors & Castoreum

    Natural Flavors & Castoreum

    Natural Flavors… The name sounds innocent enough, but these mild-sounding words are an umbrella term for some pretty horrible stuff, including certain ingredients that come from extreme animal abuse.

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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Traveling as a Vegan

    A Beginner’s Guide to Traveling as a Vegan

    As you travel to new places as a vegan, a bit of planning and forethought can help you overcome the small inconveniences you may encounter.

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  • Beginner’s Guide to Veganic Gardening

    Beginner's Guide to Veganic Gardening

    Just as vegans avoid animal products in the rest of our lives, we also avoid them in the garden, as many fertilizers come from industries of exploitation.

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  • A Newer Age

    A Newer Age

    The vegan evolution will inspire a heightened spiritual awareness, purify the body, and make possible personal and planetary healing unprecedented in human history.

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  • The Vegan Evolution

    The Vegan Evolution

    The vegan ideal represents nothing less than the next evolutionary step for humankind. This quantum leap may seem far-fetched from the position we are in today, but it is within this very change that we will ultimately find our hope for the world of tomorrow.

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  • What’s Wrong with Wool?

    What's Wrong with Wool?

    Wool often tends to be overlooked by animal advocates because its cultivation does not necessitate the death of the animal. However, the cultivation of wool is far from the pastoral idyll one might imagine.

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  • Good Nutrition for Healthy Vegan Dogs

    Good Nutrition for Healthy Vegan Dogs

    Many people are surprised to learn that not only can vegan dogs enjoy vibrant health, but their physical condition can actually improve as a result of eliminating animal foods.

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  • 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Free-Range Turkeys

    10 Things Everyone Should Know About Free-Range Turkeys

    Many people don’t realize that animals raised as 'free-range' suffer much of the same torment as those in standard operations.

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    Is Your Alcohol Vegan?

    Many people, vegan or not, are surprised to discover that there is a plethora of animal-based products that can be found in alcoholic beverages.

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  • The Importance of Being Vegan

    The Importance of Being Vegan

    Veganism is not a fringe philosophy – it is a moral baseline that is consistent with beliefs that most of us already hold.

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  • An Irrefutable Truth

    An Irrefutable Truth

    "What a boost to my self-esteem to discover that I knew something that was absolutely right; something that no one, no matter their station in life, could convince me was wrong."

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  • The Magic of Frozen Bananas

    The Magic of Frozen Bananas

    For an instant energy boost that is long lasting, yet light on the digestion, frozen bananas are fantastic for smoothies, snacks and even raw vegan desserts.

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  • Waking Up: Vegetarian to Vegan

    Waking Up: Vegetarian to Vegan

    As I look back over the last 26 years of my life, I wonder how it took me so long to live my life the way I’ve always wanted to: with love, kindness and honesty.

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  • Bruno: A New Perspective on Happy Cows

    Bruno: A New Perspective on Happy Cows

    This is not the story of a factory farm; it is the story of a beautiful farm with free range animals who seemed to be happy.

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  • Freedom’s New Frontier: A Guide to Animal Rights

    Freedom’s New Frontier: A Guide to Animal Rights

    Shifting away from the common belief that other animals are renewable resources will lead to a new perception that recognizes animals as the conscious, feeling, innocent individuals they are.

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  • Keeping Animal Bones Out of Sugar

    Keeping Animal Bones Out of Sugar

    Sugar seems vegan at a glance; it comes from a plant after all. But when the natural sugars from the plant are refined in a factory, they are often filtered through bone char.

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  • A Beginner’s Guide to Vegan Advocacy

    A Beginner’s Guide to Vegan Advocacy

    Given the burgeoning opportunities, advocates can pick and choose what methods and media suit their talents, personalities, preferences, and geographic locations.

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  • 10 Protein-Packed Plants

    10 Protein-Packed Plants

    When most people think of protein, images of cheese, eggs and a leg of lamb pop into their head. Did you know though that every single whole food contains protein?

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  • 3 Reasons Not to Eat Honey

    3 Reasons Not to Eat Honey

    To make one pound of honey, a colony must visit over two million flowers, flying over 55,000 miles, at up to 15 miles per hour to do so.

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  • Legal Slavery in the 21st Century

    Legal Slavery in the 21st Century

    Widespread veganism is the only way to achieve animal rights, and to end the legal slavery that is the foundation of industrial animal exploitation.

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  • Occupy Humanity

    Occupy Humanity

    As we, the people, occupy cities and institutions all over the world to protest injustice, it may be a good time to ask ourselves if we are in any way perpetrating the very injustices we are opposing.

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  • The Power of Ahimsa

    The Power of Ahimsa

    Prescribed by sages throughout history as the most effective way to temper the bestial nature in man, taking the vow of Ahimsa means resolving to refrain from causing any harm to any living creature.

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  • Burying the Past

    Burying the Past

    Let us bury the past in recognition that we will not and cannot own, sell or give away another animal’s body parts, which were never ours to use in the first place.

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Dental Chews for Vegan Dogs

May 7, 2013 health & nutrition
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Some dogs have a problem with dental tartar, and our rescued boy is one of them. Over the past couple of years, we’ve had to adopt a rigorous dental cleaning regimen for Valiant, because otherwise his teeth become quickly covered in plaque that is a nightmare to remove. In addition to snacks of crunchy kibble, [...]

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People Like You

May 1, 2013 Gentle World
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The Southern Hemisphere summer is over. It’s the time of year when Gentle World’s volunteers return from Shangri-La, our New Zealand location, back to Hawaii. It’s hard to believe that only one week ago, I was admiring the natural beauty in New Zealand, but I knew then that in a matter of days, I would be [...]

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Love Is The Only Reality

May 1, 2013 Gentle World
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Love is the only reality It’s the feeling we naturally feel All the rest is derived from a world we’ve contrived that pretends there are some things more real Love is the only reality Human hearts feel at home intertwined Life’s illusions are borne behind masks that are worn The truth is, we’re all gentle [...]

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I Know I’m Doing the Right Thing

May 1, 2013 ethics
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~ Tiziana Picasso I was a vegetarian for two years when I arrived in Shangri-La. But I never really thought about veganism. I didn’t want to give up my cheese (I’m French, you understand?) The first words there were “Vegan is the first step.” Done, I was vegan. We had delicious meals every day in [...]

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Letters from our Visitors

April 1, 2013 Gentle World
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from Jesse Seiden, United States: For me, visiting Gentle World was the beginning of my journey, but I was so impacted by the peaceful sanctuary and the amazing people who live in it, that I decided to come back to end my time in New Zealand there. My intention upon arrival was to learn about [...]

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The Colored Entrance

April 1, 2013 ethics
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Jazz singer Billie Holiday was one of the greatest female vocalists of her time. In 1948, Holiday sang to a sold-out crowd in Carnegie Hall. The venue broke its own record, with 2,700 tickets sold in advance. When she began to sing, she was met with “one of the most thunderous ovations ever given a [...]

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43 Year Vegans

March 29, 2013 ethics
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… Light and Sun are the co-founders of Gentle World. Last month, their profile appeared as part of a collection of long-term vegans, put together by Butterflies Katz. How long have you been vegan? We have been vegan for 43 years. Our decision began with an epiphany, while attending a movie in which the slaughter of a bull [...]

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It Must Have Been Lovely

March 2, 2013 ethics
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In October of 1970, as an anthem for the very first Earth Day, American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton wrote a haunting song painting a picture of the planet as it might one day be… devoid of the wonders of the natural world. “Whose garden was this? It must have been lovely… Did it have flowers? I’ve [...]

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Don’t Tell Me What To Do

March 2, 2013 ethics
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I don’t have any problem with your way of life. I respect your point of view. You are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to mine. Don’t get me wrong. I admire people with strong moral values. I just don’t like them being shoved down my throat. I, for example, see nothing whatsoever wrong [...]

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The Last Fish

March 2, 2013 ethics
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When I was a child, I was taught that killing fish was supposed to be relaxing. It was a time to bond with family and friends; a game, or rather a sport, called “fishing”. Thankfully this lesson didn’t stick and even before I became vegetarian and then vegan, I realized that any activity that ends [...]

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