Be good to animals and the planet

#TruthOrDrought #SaveWaterEatPlants!
“The only sustainable beef is beef that was never produced or consumed. Beef and sustainability are about as compatible as war and goodness.” Professor Gidon Eshel.

Graphic I designed for Truth or Drought

Morrissey at Plymouth, September 2015

Now every time Morrissey sings
I wish I was there...
even if it is on the other side of this Earth

Thank you Nina Elliott @senoraelliott
for posting this piece of
Every Day is Like Sunday

And thank you to Int'l Playboy @Intl_Playboy
for the pictures...
the internet allows me to be where my heart belongs
even if by his side, I am not.

photo by Int'l Playboy @Intl_Playboy

photo by Int'l Playboy @Intl_Playboy

 

COWSPIRACY on Netflix!

Don't forget to stream Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret on Netflix starting September 15, 2015! #Cowspiracy #AnimalAgriculture

The more streaming, the more the film will "trend."
Is time for people to learn how harming is the animal agriculture business to our planet.
Please search and watch the film on Netflix.
Please review and rate the film on Netflix.
Please ask your friends to view the film on Netflix.
Helps save our planet and the animals.

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.
— Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-Winning Director of "The Cove"

A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement.
— Darren Aronofsky, Director of "Noah" and "Black Swan"

Diet and Climate Change or Meat Is Heat

Dr. Michael Greger from NutritionFacts.org:

"While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far our leading causes of death, global warming is considered a looming public health threat. How can we eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time?"

Please take a look at this important video:



Now get a veggie burger instead of a cow burger,
do it for your health, for the animals, and for the planet!

you are never really alone

when you have books...
some older pictures of me
happy with my books...

"There's more to life than books, you know. But not much more."
& "The goodness of privacy in a warm room with books."
— Morrissey #Morrissey

2006, cottage studio in Normal Heights, San Diego, this place was surrounded by skunks, possums and homeless cats, I adopted two cats for myself and found home for another 3.

2008? same studio Normal Heights, San Diego. I was fit, so much yoga!

December 2014, at the wonderful Skylight Books, in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California. www.skylightbooks.com

11,000 ear tags

"11,000 ear tags”.
A haunting image representing the animals killed in a single day at one slaughterhouse — 11,000 minds, 11,000 identities, 11,000 biographies, erased from existence and pulped into meat every single day.
"We are surrounded", wrote J. M. Coetzee, "by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them”.

#MeatIsMurder I am sure you can find something else to eat.
I have, for years now, it is not hard, it just takes a bit compassion, and common sense.

Eartags  of animals killed in a 1 single day at 1 slaughterhouse.

SeaWorld set the slaves free!

I have been to so many anti-SeaWorld protests I have lost count...
Also to the beautiful "Light Brigades"
where we form words with led lights letters
to be held on freeway overpasses!
I love this form of activism!
my dear friend Ellen Ericksen is the organizer
I help her getting the materials and posters there
we arrive about 1 hr earlier than other activists
and listen to the quiet streets, I always wonder if
I would listen to the cry of help coming from the
captive orcas, dolphins, penguins, sea lions, and other prisoners.

I prefer to speak for Dolphins and Sea Lions, as everybody else focuses on orcas

Me, wearing some strange sunglasses, and my dear friend Mary Peifer

San Diego Light Brigade, a beautiful and great form of activism!

Committed activists outside SeaWorld San Diego demanding Animal Liberation!

My first Light Brigade encouraging people to watch Black Fish I was the #4!

Me with activists, again a Dolphin sign.

Me and dear friend and partner 'in crime' Ellen Ericksen who organizes SW protests in SD

Imagine my joy and gratitude

when I saw beloved Morrissey's band wearing SeaWorld Sucks
t-shirts at his magnificent sold-out-instantly concert this past
August 20, 2015 in San Diego.

Thank you beautiful Morrissey and your band for speaking against SeaWorld!

Thank you Morrissey and your band, for always speaking for animals!
Now my heart is fuller knowing the animals
have your wit, your pen, and your heart on their side.

Now My Heart is Full from the night I saw beautiful Morrissey in San Diego.
I have two big wishes, to see all the animals free and to see again one day
this talented big-hearted beautiful man sing live again!

Save Water, Eat Plants!

I am proud and thankful to be part of the Truth or Drought team
I design many of the graphics, the leaflets and lawn signs

lawn sign design, so many people in California got our signs!

I am so humbled and thankful for all the people displaying our lawn sing on the front yards!

I do this as a volunteer on my free time,

not that I have much as I work full time as a graphic designer

but since I became an activist for the animals

I truly enjoy working on graphics or talking to people

about not eating animals, or using them on any abusive way

or going to protests...

just as the other members or Truth or Drought
we all volunteer our 'free' time...
we are a small group (mainly 3 people, lately 2 others are helping too)
we created this group to open people's eyes
to the fact that animal agriculture is causing the
devastating water shortages in California (and the planet)
All of our research is fully sourced by scientific research!
Here the latest graphic I created under Lorelei Plotczyk's supervision
and her superb research work. She writes and researches all the
graphics for T or D. I only make them a visual reality.

It is plain and simple: We (the entire planet) are running out of water. Animal agriculture uses a LOT of water and creates all sort of environmental problems, and needless cruelty & suffering, for both animals & humans. We can eat the plant protein directly and save water, stop the suffering, and heal our planet. Nowadays you can find vegan hamburgers in every supermarket, they taste better than the 'real' thing too and are healthier, you can find chicken-less chicken, all sorts of non-dairy cheeses, you can find cow milk substitutes (or make your own), you can find vegan cakes, cupcakes, donuts, pies, pancakes, etc. etc. etc. So if you eat animals is only because you are OK with violence, cruelty and destroying the planet, see? Plain & simple ‪#‎SaveWaterEatPlants‬! ‪#‎TruthOrDrought‬

Rescue dogs in 9/11

I have just arrived to the USA in late 2000

from hectic violent Mexico City which was MY city

but a man showed me a gun once and the city

was just getting impossible to live in...

San Diego appeared to me as a paradise beach city

quiet, calm, and for once, I worked just 2 blocks from

the apartment I was renting, very close to Balboa Park

I was very lucky and found a position as Creative Director

at the San Diego Blood Bank, at first, I didn't

appreciate the job... working at a non-profit

helping 'save lives', how arrogant I was...

but then it came the saddest morning of any September,

the TV was on while I was getting ready to go to work

the news this time, instead of cartoons, or and old b&w film...

I heard about a plane crash... nobody knew what happened

why a plane crashed into one of the twin towers?

and live I saw it... another plane crashed too!!

now, we know this is not an accident, is not a coincidence...

it is extreme violence and hate at its worst...

I ran to the Blood Bank, by the time I got there,

barely 20 minutes after the attack,

my boss at the community relations dept had issued

a press conference, calling all San Diego blood donors

to give blood in order to help the victims in New York City...

I will never forget the lines of donors surrounding the

building to help, for weeks, donor kept coming.
Strange how the worst in humanity,
woke up the best in humanity, strange twisted species we are

The San Diego Blood Bank was the 1st blood bank to

help the victims of NYC...

And today, I remember all those dogs what we barely saw

on TV or read about, the most selfless species and the closest

to us cruel humans, here this wonderful article and 

picture of real heroes, the ones that only get paid with a pet

a smile and love, selfless tender creatures
today I write and remember the rescue dogs of 9/11.

Bretagne, Last Known Living 9/11 Search & Rescue Dog Honored With Dream Day

I am sure she wasn't afraid, as dogs are pure love and will do anything to help!

Heroes on four legs, with fur and tails

Peace, peace love, love.
Never war, never murder.

Please humans stop killing each other.
Please stop eating the animals!

Let's all species of this planet unite and help each other.

Not kill and eat each other.

Donuts and LPs

Today is a good Friday!
I am going to Moncai vegan tonight
and will get donuts! 
[a vegan donut, because why have a cruel donut, when you can have a kind donut?]
And I will be buying the new Low LP Ones and Sixes
From a local record store Off The Record or M-Theory
[support your local records stores, they are disappearing!]

Low's new album: Ones and Sixes

'Sample' song: What Part of Me?

What part of me don't you know? What part of me don't you own?

Why have a cruel donut when you can have a vegan donut?! Thank you @moncaivegancafe #vegan #crueltyfree #donuts

A photo posted by Berenice Weber (@veg.b) on Jul 25, 2015 at 12:09pm PDT