Butterflies Katz

It started 46 years ago, when I was 12 years of age. My older brother pointed out to me that the ‘tongue’ on my plate was  the tongue of a cow, and that meat, in general, was actually a dead animal. I took my first step into rebelling against society and rejected the practice of eating animals. There […] Read more

I’ve been vegan for 36 years, therefore it is safe to say I will always be vegan. I committed to vegan living before any health benefits of the vegan diet were known. I stopped eating animals at age 12 when I learned ‘meat’ was a dead animal, and became fully vegan immediately upon first reading […] Read more

photos by Nadine Loraine … Life really gets fun when we convert a patch of grass into a thriving ecosystem. My vegan corner of the world is about 30 by 35 feet; a garden to nurture all the senses; to feed both body and soul. Barefoot, I stroll through paths in this place where peace […] Read more

Kids of all ages can learn to love pigs. Pigs are easy to love. They are friendly,  come when you call them, and love tummy rubs. All sentient animals, whether as intelligent as pigs or humans – or not – have the inherent birth right to protection from harm by humans, since humans can live vegan and because animals are conscious and feeling.   […] Read more

In our New Zealand location, our vegan educational center called Shangri-La is a model of vegan cooperative living. The food is grown veganically (marrying the principles of organic growing with the ethics of veganism), and the land is off-the-grid; powered by solar and hydro-electric.

Like women and certain races that were enslaved and held no legal rights, nonhuman animals need legal personhood extended to them and must cease being viewed as the property of humans.