Leonardo DiCaprio Vegan and Enviromentalist Watch Cowspiracy

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Did you know Leonardo DiCaprio co-produced an incredibly powerful documentary all about climate change and how animal agriculture is its leading cause? Watch Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret on Netflix today!

Truth or Drought

http://www.mfablog.org/now-that-leo-won-the-oscar-its-time-you-watched

Rainy Thursday quote

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Immanuel Kant

February 2016

It is so long since I posted on my good old blog
I am all recovered from surgery
Have been working for 2 weeks now
But I surely wish I was at home resting
Reading books, being lazy...
This is just a quick come back.

A fun picture of my mom and my aunt Alicia
We went for a walk to Balboa Park this past Saturday
This February is unseasonably warm!
I know it's wrong to be this warm & dry in February
Global warming / Climate change anyone?
Still we had a lovely day.

Mi mamá y mi tía Alicia en Balboa Park, brincando de alegría

Feliz Vegan Navidad

I wish for all creatures of planet Earth,
animals and humans,
to be this warm and safe this Christmas, and always.
Feliz Navidad. Peace and love for all, let's not eat each other!

Herr Gato, safe from harm, warm & cozy, all animals should live like this.

Rosemary Christmas tree, you can eat it after xmas.

Frau Kitty, my other love.

surgery

I have never had a major surgery in my life

now I will.

I think I am still in denial, but hopeful!

Thanksgiving

To all my friends who might eat an animal today ‪#‎Thanksgiving‬ was a turning point for me, it was the handling of a dead turkey for Thanksgiving that make made the connection, while I was handling his dead body, I saw my cat, same weight same color, walking alive around the house. I did some research on how turkeys lived and died... By December I have quit eating chickens and any birds, by April on my b-day, I was a vegan. Let reason and compassion enter your heart ‪#‎GoVegan‬

Turkeys and Thanksgiving

#Turkeys are wonderful birds millions of them die for #Thanksgiving
We must evolve and learn to celebrate
without murdering animals!

My friend Ellen and I went leafleting the past days
creating awareness on the suffering of turkeys
and all the resources we use to feed them & kill them.

California is on the worst drought recorded in history
and a raising a turkey alone takes over 8,000 gallons of water
That is crazy! When you can have a compassionate Thanksgiving
Eating a vegan meal and not having a dead body
at your table...

Please consider saving a life this Thanksgiving,
helping your planet, the animals, and your health!

A Vegan Thanksgiving
A Plant-based Thanksgiving

my friend Ellen and I leafleting with my handmade poster

We leaflet at any chance, during the week on the evening and on Sat and Sundays

Halloween at work

Halloween fun with coworkers!

the witches of CASAS

Cute co-worker

Dead fingers, these were 'accidentally' vegan

Do you recognize me?

Sadly not all the food was vegan, but I brought Meatless Meatballs with BBQ and there was a Sweet Potato chili vegan!

Caramel apple station

Cowgirl with caramel apple instead of gun

I have more co-workers but these are the brave ones who had customs

Food Revolution Film

Every second in the U.S. 300 animals are killed
300, 600, 900, 1200... we can stop this.
Food Relovution Film by Thomas Torelli
Support this project here we need this film out.
Please watch the trailer here.

Choosing food with awareness is a revolutionary act that can change the world.

Hurricane Patricia, Global Warming, Animal Agriculture and Man-made Climate Change

A letter (e-mail) to my co-workers:

All this talk about hurricane Patricia being the strongest recorded in history adds to the concern of  animal welfare, human welfare, and the future of our planet…

“Scientists have linked the global ocean temperature departures from average to manmade global warming, in addition to El Niño.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-strongest-ever-measured/74446334/

On manmade global warming and climate change: The meat industry (chickens, pigs, cows, dairy, eggs) is number 1 cause of global warming, 51% of greenhouse emissions are coming from animal agriculture. http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

“Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.”

This is more than all transportation: planes, trains, cars, COMBINED.

Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”

WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Pp. 10–19.

Animal Feed Science and Technology “comment to editor” Goodland, Anhang.

The Independent, article Nov. 2009.

Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US.

This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US.

All that excrement is polluting our rivers and creating ocean dead zones. There is a huge problem in North Carolina with hogs and manure.

United States Environmental Protection Agency

It is not just about the ‘meat’ or animals we eat, but the water needed to grow the grains they eat, the antibiotics we feed them (70% of all the antibiotics sold in the US are administer to farmed animals) and all the waste the produce that has ‘nowhere’ to go, the energy needed to run slaughterhouses, transportation, freezing of the corpses, etc. etc. etc. Beans and broccoli come from farm to fridge to table, and don’t poop, plant-based protein is more readily and easily digested by our bodies too.

I have read some of Chris Hedges work, I didn’t know he is a vegan:

"I'm a vegan, and I'm a vegan because the animal agriculture industry maybe surpasses the fossil fuel industry in terms of destroying the planet, and you can wake up tomorrow and be a vegan." (don’t have to join Greenpeace and leave your job to fight the fracking industry or Exxon) On California: "And you're enduring this drought. It takes 1,000 gallons of water to make one gallon of milk [source: Water Footprint Network]. And milk's not even good for you. It's made for cows, it's not made for humans. It's made for baby cows. Who we kill."
– Harvard-educated journalist, best-selling author, professor, Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism recipient, and member of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism Chris Hedges of Truthdig
“What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet” http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109

You can watch the video here, on FB but open to the public

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153585761485090

                                                                                                                                       

Thanks for reading, there is something we can do every day to help our planet and our health and we can do it 3 times a day, with our forks.