A Prayer for Compassion, Part 3 of 6

“We became vegan for a reason of compassion. But the side effect was that our health improved dramatically. We had all kinds of problems – aches, and pains, and arthritis starting, and coughing, and sneezing things, the head colds, irritable bowel syndrome, all kinds of things like that. And we found that within about three weeks of becoming vegan, our health improved. We didn’t have these same symptoms. Both Mary and I are in our late 70s, and we haven’t taken medication – I don’t know, it’s got to be at least 25 years now – but we don’t get the chronic diseases that people get. The Bible tells us that if we’re a child of GOD, we’re to be a peacemaker, and that as peacemakers – and [Saint] Paul picks up on this, and He says, ‘As peacemaking children of GOD, we’re to help free creation from its present corruption.’ Well, part of that corruption is the way we live. We’ve heard people say, “When I buy an animal product in the supermarket, I didn’t hurt the animal, I’m just buying the product that’s sitting there.” And I’m saying, ‘No, you’re actually contributing to it.’”

“The first thing you can do, and the most important thing to do in saving this world and to living in the Heavenly will of GOD, starts on your dinner plate.”

“How can we disturb one living being? But when we take the dairy, the meat industry, the cows, you are snatching away the five senses of those living beings who can hear, who can see, who can feel, who can taste, who can smell. We have no right to take the life of any living being. Even though they are not human beings, but they have already got the five senses, and with one shot we destroy that. Our hearts should really tremble to do all these things. And we don’t have any qualms. But the violence is not because of the bad people; it is because of the silence of the good people. So be a whisper, or be a scream, just be the voice for the voiceless being.”

“Did you know that in order for a cow to produce milk, she had to be impregnated every year, and her baby taken away after the first day of her life? And if it’s a male, it usually goes to the veal industry; if it’s a female, she ends up in there. And within four years of their life, they are slaughtered for meat – and usually they would live 25 years in their life? Did you know that they were taken away?”