The Future is Now Humanimal Non-Human Animal Planet
Volume 3 Issue 2 March 2017 For Vegans, Vegetarians, and the Veg Curious
Will Tuttle, Ph.D
Inside
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Editor’s Note
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Assistant Editor’s Note
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Respect For Animals
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The Cambridge Declaration On Consciousness
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Toadland Manufacturing, Inc. (Advertisement)
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Red & Green VegFest (Advertisement)
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You Are What You Practice
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Artwork Gallery
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Recipe
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Vegan Logos (to look for when shopping)
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Meet: A Well-Fed World
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Restoring America’s Health Simple Steps to a Plant Based Lifestyle
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New Mexico Facts & Trivia
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Resources
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Reopening Santuario de Karuna (Advertisement)
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You Can Make A Difference Now
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Calendar Of Events
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HeartnSole/Vegan Spirituality (Advertisement)
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Respect For Animals, Too
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Photo Collage
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Connect, Research, Enjoy…
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Innocently “Doing Time” …Until We All Go To PEACE--IS
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Red & Green VegFest Speaker Preview
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Advertising with NM Vegan
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Will Tuttle
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Madeline Tuttle
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Chef Nancy
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New Mexico Vegan VoIume 3 – Issue 2 March 2017 Editor: Nancy Arenas Assistant Editor: Arwen NMV Photographer: N. Arenas
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The views and opinions, expressed by contributing-authors, in the New Mexico Vegan Magazine; may, or may not, represent the views and opinions, of New Mexico Vegan.
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Welcome to another edition of New Mexico Vegan. It is my highest pleasure to publish this magazine …to share information about veganism. Now that the word “veganism” is getting the world’s attention, we need to be wisely strong and bold, to convince the world, that the word “vegan” implies: living in accordance with true-values (such as – nonviolence, health, basic prosperity, happiness of the whole, and all such things that will naturally occur to the mind when it genuinely contemplates that which “true value” really is). Since everyone, basically, desires to be safe and prosperous; vegan-values are what we, all, truly want. If all people were aware of this fact, the world would be at peace. We must be vigilant & involved, still; so that our vegan-momentum will continue, compassionately, forward. Teaching the world to define, pronounce, and spell the word “vegan” is, obviously, only one small phase in the process of seeing the world become “vegan” in principle. There are wise opportunities, that are within your outreach, to heal this world: do you see them already; or, do you need to look more deeply? At times, the goal of global-veganism can seem overwhelmingly impossible to achieve: but for today, let us not be overwhelmed; today, let us see & feel & remember who we are fighting for, as did all the “heroes of peace” who have gone before us. Our hearts might feel pain, tears might flow down from our eyes, but we must use these emotions to fuel our righteous convictions, and turn those energies into a calm and peaceful confidence. Against their humanabusers, animals are voiceless and helpless victims. Many animals will need “protective human intervention” …to escape “being harmed by humans.” Let’s “lift each other up” so that, as one strong community, we can “raise” that justice which is called veganism. You have gifts to share, are you sharing them? Vegans are the only advertisement-campaign for furthering veganism. Who else will do it? Therefore, spread this beautiful word: vegan. Many carnivores, if not all, will need to hear the word “vegan” before they can become it. So, let’s say “vegan” until its sound is a ripple-effect heard around the world. If you are vegan, then you are contributing to a noble cause, simply through your mode of dining. Consider the joy and benefits you derive from being a vegan; you have simultaneously considered the blessing you can be to others. Let’s share the message of joy, love, unity, and compassion that is veganism. I am happy for you, that you are vegan; I am glad for all that you are, toward the global vegan cause, everyday. Livegan, Nancy & Arwen
ASSISTANT EDITOR’S NOTE Be humble and kind. Livegan: -- Arwen. NM Vegan | 03
Why should anyone love a cow, in a random pasture, any less, than they love their pet or their children …or whatever it is they love? Because, expanded-love is a value. You are the universe. Love your whole self. Obviously, it is neither practical nor possible, to be (bodily) in the presence of the entire Animal Kingdom, every day. So, it is not being suggested that you should pet the cow; or brush, bathe, or feed the cow. There is a love that: spans any distance; and, transcends the need for physical touch. Furthermore, this kind of love does not murder the beloved; but, allows that innocent beloved soul to LIVE a life, as the lover, also, wants to live; according to nature’s design, toward an inevitable demise, yes …but a demise that is (ideally) not imposed by a human, as an unnecessary interruption of life. I believe it is everyone’s joyous duty, to live and love like this. If, you do not have the courage to trade places with the animal who is about to be slaughtered; then, how can you sit, comfortably carefree at the dining table, and fork that animal’s precious life force into your own mouth? Perhaps you have an answer to that question; I would like to know what it is. But, I would rather be done with the violence, than to have the satisfaction of the debate. Why does it break my heart so …that humans perform this ultimate show of disrespect to animals? The “living of animals” is so akin to our own, and yet we murder them. Look how similar, that even a fish is, to a human; compared with the “life” of a stone. A fish has a face with eyes and a mouth, etc. Fish have a spine. Fish have a digestive system whereby they eat and poop. If, fish do not have feelings; then, why do they resist being “caught?” Why don’t the fish “play dead” and surrender to the hook? I doubt: it is for the sake of the fisherman’s sport. What an insult to the human race and to the trillions of animals that are killed and eaten for food, annually. The superior food, is found, in that “category of nature” which does not suffer, from being killed and eaten …the Plant Kingdom. The most obvious service of plants to humanity is: food. Plants, as food, are pure grace, because they are nutritious, and they don’t suffer; therefore, there is no risk that they will imprint our heart, with the turmoil of guilt. Even though guilt is artificial – guilt, is not true – eating animals can, for some, create a nagging worry, that begins as a happy feeling of innocence; but, then becomes a doubt, followed by guilt …eventually, blame, shame and self-punishment must all be understood, to have victimized our innocent ignorance. If this process creeps slowly and deceitfully in, over years of time; it may become the tough teacher of a lesson so difficult, that it becomes branded on the hide of the mind. Lesson learned; and, you won’t easily forget it. The entire, false guilt-cycle …must be released, to make the conscience clear again. Life is lived amid opposites. We are all, well aware, that one of the basic polar pairs is: good versus evil. We believe that our citizenry, generally, are taught to: observe; evaluate; and, choose the good (i.e., discern right from wrong). But, I think that this process is abandoned, prematurely, in the following way. The mind grows stronger, (as does the body). We graduate from one level of challenges, to the next – more challenging level – like a student going through the levels of mathematics, from addition to calculus, --until we can no longer be deceived. That’s what a schoolteacher’s test is designed to do – deceive us –if we are not yet a master of that “level.” Being deceived by the test, shows us that we have more to learn. So-called “trick questions” (the kind I am picturing) are the master’s best test of the student’s determination/ability to succeed. Since I was, once, a carnivore; I speak from, some degree of experience, when I say: I believe people are “tricked” into becoming carnivores; because, they fail to investigate life, tenaciously …completely. Once a person realizes, how deeply, a principle can be questioned, the tendency is to …question everything, to that same depth. It is neither, necessary nor polite, to pester people, aloud, with incessant queries. But, quietly, within yourself; you can develop the habit of questioning everything …all the time, without interfering with your duties. When I was a toddler, I did not know any one, who was a vegetarian; I did not even know it was a “thing.” Everyone, ate animals; most …hunted animals. There was an elaborate code of justifications for eating animals: basically, it was okay with the Creator God, for animals to suffer, so it was okay with us. Baby animals were, in many cases, especially pursued, because of their tenderness and flavor. I found animal flesh to not be repulsive; so, I was “fooled” into participating in carnivorous myths. Why? Because, I did not have the habit of questioning. My naïve toddler, was neither educated nor inspired, to “think about a toddler’s consequences” …and least of all, to consider a NM Vegan | 04
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toddler’s options and consequences around eating. After all, baby’s put everything in their mouth, already, without being asked. I really don’t believe that I “chose” to be a carnivore; I was like a factory produced eatingmachine, that started out as a nut or a bolt, riding on a conveyer belt, then rolling, hot, off that assembly line, I was ready to be programmed for a social food system; and so, I was …and then plugged-in to it. For these reasons, I am trying to get everyone “all, o’board the Thinking Train.” The Thinking Train passed me by …I watched it roll out of the depot, choo choo away along the tracks, and fade out of sight …I wouldn’t board it, until decades later. Looking back on those yonder days of innocence, is my inspiration for publishing this magazine. I love animals; I love people; I also have faith that the human mind, inherently, desires to transcend any and all “trickery.” Of all the examples, displayed for us, by the Animal Kingdom, regarding food …it is obvious to anyone, who truly thinks about it, that we should follow the way of: the gentle grass-grazing horse and cow; the rabbit; the bee; the dove; and so on. When a child, sees a shark, attack a human; if that child, attempts to take a bite out of its mother; then, that child is getting it wrong. We, humans, have the two basic food alternatives presented to us, in nature, and we are mimicking …the gnashing bloody jaws of the lion. Is that the option we should be attracted to? I think it is the perverse path. The lion is clothed in a gloriously majestic coat. The circle of the male’s golden mane, rhymes with the radiant sun’s golden-hued orb, setting on the evening horizon. Yes, the lion is beautiful. And, one of its beauties, is to highlight for us, a certain repulsive property that should be, properly, turned away from …violence. Would you like to be the gazelle, that is clawed down, dragged around, pierced with thorns, smashed on stones, and shredded with that “trap of teeth?” No …no matter how elegant, the lion’s stature. Why would anyone want to mimic, that murderous scenario, in either role …the slain gazelle’s or the slaying lion’s? The problem is, the person who is dining, usually does not do the slaying. And, the chef adorns the bloody dead animal, with a sizzling lusty tan, whose glory rivals that of the killer cat. The pretty plate of muscle arrives at the table, a beautifully brown basted buttock, garnished with greens and gravy rich. Dining on the chef’s work of culinary art, I am hypnotized into ignoring the truth, that someone, other than “me,” echoed the lions cruel role, of the slayer, and “I” am nodding, “Yes,” to that writhing scene, with every fork full of seared blood. The real motive for carnivores, is not the quality of food – nutritionally; it is the quality of “taste addiction.” If the human tongue, was not equipped with the sense of taste, we would not be eating animals, …the whole process of killing and eating animals would appear: strangely inconvenient, dirty, and cruel --compared to eating a bean, or a grape, directly from the vine. If we could not taste, who would yearn to mimic the gory means of hunting & killing for food, as demonstrated by the shark, the crocodile, or the wolf? If we could not taste food, we would not go down that perverse path, like a vampire. Our wise food choices would be easy, as …well, as easy as this: Do you cross the alligator infested water, by swimming it; or, do you walk the high-bridge? Knowingly choosing, to swim with the sharks, is (likely) not a mistake we will make; we will get an “A-grade” on that quiz. If, only, …we were smart enough to learn from the truly vegetarian animals. I say “truly” vegetarian, because (somehow) vegetarianfood has come to include “milk, eggs, and even fish & chicken.” Is “vegetable” not the root word of “vegetarian?” That discussion, is for another time. On this page, here & now, I would like to appeal to the heart …rather than the scientific and logical mind. Why should we get out the slide-rule and calculator, to be real about respect? How difficult is it, for us to agree, that no person wants to be, the brunt of humiliation? If, the majority of Americans, must think, for more than a quick moment, whether the same is true for animals; then, how do we deserve to complain about international terrorists, being terrible to us? Let us go along the list of terrible things, that people don’t want to put up with; even though people, are ignorantly (yet, innocently) arming themselves with
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those same terrible things, in order to terrorize animals …Americans are terrorizing citizens of their own country, by terrorizing animals. Here is a partial listing of America’s terrorist acts: Cannibalism… Murder… Enslavement (Chained, around the neck, for a lifetime --or for a moment; confined to the same small living space, for a lifetime –whether chained or not)… Torture (cruel laboratory experiments; fatal, injurious, and disgusting living/working conditions)… Physical and emotional abuse (subjection to severe weather/temperatures; food & water deprivation; angrily shouting directly at; cruelly beating, whipping, etc.)… Grotesque, injurious, and fatal usage for human amusement/entertainment. The notion that animals think and feel, may be popular among pet owners, but it makes certain scientists uncomfortable. “If you ask my colleagues whether animals have emotions and thoughts,” says Philip Low, a prominent computational neuroscientist, “many will drop their voices to a whisper or simply change the subject. They don’t want to touch it.” Jaak Panksepp, a professor at Washington State University, has studied the emotional responses of rats. “Once, not very long ago,” he said, “you couldn’t even talk about these things with colleagues.” Now, however, research is helping to gain more respect for animals’ intrinsic value, beyond “being killed for food.” A profusion of recent studies has shown animals to be far closer to us than we previously believed — it turns out that: common shore crabs feel and remember pain, zebra finches experience REM sleep, fruit-fly brothers cooperate, dolphins and elephants recognize themselves in mirrors, chimpanzees assist one another without expecting favors in return, and dogs really do feel elation in their relationships with humans. In the summer of 2012, an unprecedented document, masterminded by Low — “The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Human and Nonhuman Animals” — was signed by a group of leading animal researchers, in the presence of Stephen Hawking. It asserted that mammals, birds and other creatures, like octopuses, possess consciousness and, in all likelihood, emotions and self-awareness. Scientists, as a rule, don’t issue declarations. But Low claims that the new research, and the ripples of unease it has engendered among rank-and-file colleagues, demanded an emphatic gesture. Low recalled, “… an eminent neuroanatomist came up to me and said, ‘We were all thinking this, but were afraid to say it.’” (Zoo Animals and Their Discontents article: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/magazine/zoo-animals-and-their-discontents.html?_r=0) Cease the terrorism; give back to the animals, what we so blatantly took from them --their respect, and their lives. When we regain our compassion, and extend our protection to the animals, we will see a more caring world. Our children will live with less violence, and they will help society regain its moral compass. In the future, when your children’s children turn to you and ask, “On what side of this injustice were you,” I hope you can tell them that: you fought for the animals; and, you helped set them free from slavery, torment and pain. Respect for animals is essential, in moving forward to a more peaceful nation.
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On this day of July 7, 2012, a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in human and non-human animals. While comparative research on this topic is naturally hampered by the inability of non-human animals, and often humans, to clearly and readily communicate about their internal states, the following observations can be stated unequivocally:
• The field of Consciousness research is rapidly evolving. Abundant new techniques and strategies for human and non-human animal research have been developed. Consequently, more data is becoming readily available, and this calls for a periodic reevaluation of previously held preconceptions in this field. Studies of non-human animals have shown that homologous brain circuits correlated with conscious experience and perception can be selectively facilitated and disrupted to assess whether they are in fact necessary for those experiences. Moreover, in humans, new non-invasive techniques are readily available to survey the correlates of consciousness. • The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. In fact, subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important for generating emotional behaviors in animals. Artificial arousal of the same brain regions generates corresponding behavior and feeling states in both humans and non-human animals. Wherever in the brain one evokes instinctual emotional behaviors in non-human animals, many of the ensuing behaviors are consistent with experienced feeling states, including those internal states that are rewarding and punishing. Deep brain stimulation of these systems in humans can also generate similar affective states. Systems associated with affect are concentrated in subcortical regions where neural homologies abound. Young human and nonhuman animals without neocortices retain these brain-mind functions. Furthermore, neural circuits supporting behavioral/electrophysiological states of attentiveness, sleep and decision making appear to have arisen in evolution as early as the invertebrate radiation, being evident in insects and cephalopod mollusks (e.g., octopus). • Birds appear to offer, in their behavior, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy a striking case of parallel evolution of consciousness. Evidence of near human-like levels of consciousness has been most dramatically observed in African grey parrots. Mammalian and avian emotional networks and cognitive microcircuitries appear to be far more homologous than previously thought. Moreover, certain species of birds have been found to exhibit neural sleep patterns similar to those of mammals, including REM sleep and, as was demonstrated in zebra finches, neurophysiological patterns, previously thought to require a mammalian neocortex. Magpies in particular have been shown to exhibit striking similarities to humans, great apes, dolphins, and elephants in studies of mirror self-recognition.
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• In humans, the effect of certain hallucinogens appears to be associated with a disruption in cortical feedforward and feedback processing. Pharmacological interventions in non-human animals with compounds known to affect conscious behavior in humans can lead to similar perturbations in behavior in non-human animals. In humans, there is evidence to suggest that awareness is correlated with cortical activity, which does not exclude possible contributions by subcortical or early cortical processing, as in visual awareness. Evidence that human and nonhuman animal emotional feelings arise from homologous subcortical brain networks provide compelling evidence for evolutionarily shared primal affective qualia. We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”
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The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low and Christof Koch. The Declaration was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, UK, on July 7, 2012, at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Human and non-Human Animals, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Low, Edelman and Koch. The Declaration was signed by the conference participants that very evening, in the presence of Stephen Hawking, in the Balfour Room at the Hotel du Vin in Cambridge, UK. The signing ceremony was memorialized by CBS 60 Minutes.
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With spring flowers blooming, many of us are looking forward to dusting off our racquets, clubs, and trail shoes, and we’re reminded that, as the Germans say, Übung macht den Meister—practice makes the master. Accomplished athletes, musicians, and artists all understand the central role of practice in developing their abilities. So do yogis, meditators, and spiritual aspirants. It takes many thousands of hours of practicing to develop a Chris Everts, James Galway, Georgia O’Keefe, Bruce Lee, Dalai Lama, or Mother Theresa.
Whatever we humans practice, we cultivate and develop in our consciousness. Eventually we become whatever we practice. Practicing giving, for example, we become more generous; practicing listening, we become better listeners; and practicing gentleness and honesty we become more gentle and honest. Practicing stealing, we become proficient in this and our consciousness will similarly reflect this. We are taught as children to practice certain ways of seeing the world and of relating to others, and we gradually become adept in these practices. In our culture, we are taught to practice disconnecting the reality of animal flesh and secretions in our meals from the actual reality of the animal cruelty required to get them onto our plates. Typically, we don’t practice this disconnecting just occasionally, but daily, often three times a day, relentlessly. The unfortunate result is that we are a culture of people who are masters of the art of disconnecting from the suffering we cause others for our meals. Through this daily practice, we have become skilled in compartmentalizing our awareness. Socially, this leads to creating categories of privilege, and repressing feedback about the abuse we inflict on those outside our concern. We pet dogs and stab pigs; we similarly protect some children and heartlessly kill others or allow them to die. I believe the invisible root of much of human conflict and suffering is this mentality of exclusion and domination required by our culturally-mandated meals, reinforced by daily food rituals in which we practice reducing beings to things. Going vegan is a commitment to practice something else, to practice in a completely different way than we were taught by our culture. Instead of practicing desensitizing, disconnecting, and reducing others, we practice reconnecting, resensitizing ourselves, and respecting others. This commitment comes from deep within us, from our inherent empathy and urge to evolve ethically and spiritually and to live with awareness, freedom, and joy. Practicing vegan living calls us to practice listening and feeling deeply, especially regarding those who are vulnerable and without social privilege, and is precisely the practice required to bring healing to our corrupt and wounded culture. Veganism is a call to renounce the core practice of our culture—reducing beings to mere harvestable and abuseable commodities—and to practice, in every aspect of our lives, its opposite: mindfulness, inclusiveness, equality, and respect. There is no force more subversive to a culture of abuse than practicing vegans, no force more challenging, healing, transformative, and uplifting than people living the truth that all life is sacred and interconnected.
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The power of veganism is that it’s practiced. Being vegan is often difficult, not only because of the outer resistance we face, but even more because of the inner resistance we experience: our culture has planted its seeds of exclusivism and violence in us from infancy, and a big part of our practice is to cultivate vegan attitudes of respect for everyone, even our so-called opponents. With this practice, we can plant seeds for a new world of peace and justice in our shared consciousness on this planet and realize and live the truth of our essential interconnectedness. Our path is our daily practice, both inwardly and outwardly, and as the old saying goes, “practice makes perfect.”
Will Tuttle, Ph.D, author of the international best-seller, The World Peace Diet, is a pianist, composer, Dharma Master in the Zen tradition, recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award and Empty Cages Prize, and vegan since 1980.
Artwork by Madeline Tuttle
Please visit the following links for more information: http://www.worldpeacediet.com/ http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm
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Artwork by Madeline Tuttle
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Ingredients: •1 can black beans, rinsed and drained •1 cup raw cashews, soaked in filtered water for an hour, then drained (if you're short on time, use hot water and soak for ten minutes) •1 clove of garlic, minced •1 tsp cumin •2 Tbsp freshly juiced lime •approximately 1/4 cup of fresh cilantro, minced (optional) •1 jar of salsa (approximately 1 cup for inside the tortillas, more for serving) •1 package of Daiya cheese shreds •6 tortillas Preparation: •Puree the black beans, drained cashews and garlic in a food processor. When smooth, add the cumin and lime and blend again. •Spread one side of one tortilla generously with the black bean mixture, then top with cilantro, salsa and Daiya. Cover with another tortilla and move carefully to a grill or fry pan. Repeat with the rest of the tortillas to make two more quesadillas. •Grill for about 3 minutes on each side or until heated through and crispy on the outside. •Slice into fours with a pizza cutter. Serve with a dollop of salsa, guacamole or vegan sour cream. (Makes 3 large quesadillas)
. Recipe and photo credit to: http://earthgivenkitchen.com/2012/05/30/black-bean-cashew-quesadillas/
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A Well-Fed World is a hunger relief and animal protection organization chipping away at two of the world’s most immense, unnecessary and unconscionable forms of suffering… the suffering of people hungry from lack of food, and the suffering of animals used and abused for food. They have a positive, practical, and action-led approach that produces immediate assistance for those in need and structural change for lasting results. In addition to their direct programs, they raise funds, partner with, and promote innovative, highly effective projects that strengthen: • plant-based feeding & farming programs • farm animal care & rescue efforts • vegan advocacy & community building Mending Our Food System Mending our unjust food system is a critical part of solving the world’s most destructive and persistent problems. Fortunately, the plant-based foods that promote health and well-being are the same foods that conserve resources to better feed the world, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment. It’s a win-win-win situation, but the process is hindered by culture/habit, inadequate nutrition education, and vested interests. A Well-Fed World provides the means for change by empowering individuals, social justice organizations, and political decisionmakers to embrace the benefits of plant-based foods and farming. Eating Well is Eating Green: •Maximizing plant-based foods – Minimizing animal products. •Maximizing whole foods – Minimizing processed food. •Maximizing organic foods – Minimizing “conventional” pesticide-laden foods. •Maximizing local/sustainable farming – Minimizing long-distance transport. •Maximizing nutritious food choices – Minimizing junk foods
For more information and to get involved visit: http://awfw.org/
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Restoring America’s Health Simple Steps to a Plant Based Lifestyle Chef Nancy
Many people, including patients, have been told to eat 'better'. Encouraged to eat more fiber, vegetables and fruit and to reduce high fat and salt in foods. Whether it is the physician or nutritionist the prescription is much the same; unfortunately, it is a prescription that can't be filled in the pharmacy! Medical practitioners and nutritionists tell patients what to eat; Chef Nancy explains HOW to do it so you may experience the DELICIOUS wonders of Whole Food Plant Based cuisine that is the centerpiece of a Plant-Based Lifestyle. A Plant-Based Lifestyle begins with food choices, but also includes several other alternative and holistic aspects that keep our bodies in balance, spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. This Lifestyle includes eating healthy foods, hydrating our bodies properly, moderate exercise that research has shown to be highly effective in healing our bodies and moving us forward to health and wellness. Everyone has the potential to live long, healthy and prosperous lives, with no side effects from invasive treatments and pharmaceutical drugs.
A quote from Charlotte Gerson from the Gerson Institute: “You can't keep one disease and heal two others, when the body heals it heals everything”. This book sets out the steps in a journey towards a Plant Based Lifestyle. Based upon personal experience, these are the steps she and her husband followed to regain their health and vitality. Starting in her early 60’s and now over 70, Nancy Stein became Chef Nancy, a well-known and proficient Plant Based Chef. Reversing disease is just part of the story. Their journey has resulted in this book and several lines of business focused on Health, Wellness and Longevity. Young or old, it is never too late to begin to restore and maintain your health. This book presents the steps necessary to journey into the world of Health & Wellness that a Plant Based Lifestyle represents. Food selection guidelines and instructions help encourage you to create your own delicious recipes.
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Did you know… New Mexico is wine country. Franciscan García de Zúñiga and a monk named Antonio de Arteaga started growing wine grapes along the Rio Grande around 1629. Taos Pueblo has been inhabited for over a thousand years. For at least 1,000 years, the people of Taos Pueblo have lived in their surreal, multi-story-apartment-like town. Santa Fe is the nation’s highest state capital. Denver might be the Mile High City, but it ain’t got nothing on Santa Fe. At 7,199 feet above sea level. You can see five different states from the top of Capulin Volcano. Capulin Volcano National Monument towers over the edge of the Great Plains in the northeastern corner of the state. An extinct cinder cone volcano, the formation once served as a landscape marker on the Santa Fe Trail. Today you can drive to the top of the 8,000ft cone for one seriously stunning view that takes in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado, in addition to New Mexico. New Mexico is more than desert. New Mexico can proudly claim one of the most diverse landscapes in the world — with a range of incredible outdoor adventures to match. We sport snow-capped 13,000ft peaks dressed in pines and spruce. We have brilliant wildflower fields and jungle-like riparian forests of towering cottonwoods. We have white sand dunes and vast expanses of prairie. Santa Fe was founded ten years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. While we typically think of the founding of America dating to the time of the Pilgrims, the Spanish were in New Mexico long before the Mayflower bumped up against that Massachusetts rock. Doc Holliday was once a dentist in Las Vegas, NM.
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Here we are, heading for Spring. Newness will soon be upon us, and all around us. This is the best opportunity for you, as well, to join the rest of us, who are: trying to bring about a new world; on a mission to help heal the planet; on a mission to stop animal cruelty, worldwide; working for each and every one of us to be healthier and live a more compassionate, violent free life. Yes, I am referring to all vegans, worldwide. There are lots of reports out there about the benefits of veganism for you, your family and your babies. (http://doctorklaper.com/) (http://nutritionfacts.org/) (http://www.pcrm.org/about/about/about-pcrm) Why do we still hold on to the ill/diseased belief that meat and dairy are the foods we must live on? We are told this, by the meat and dairy industries, who could care less about your family, you, or your babies. Do you not understand the amount of death and disease, around us, which could be prevented? Do you understand that you have been manipulated and deceived? I am trying to help you get rid of those chains that bind you; to help you remove the blindfolds, that keep you from the truth? We humans should consider the devastation we are constantly causing upon our home –the Earth. Our ways and means are selfish and money driven. We are destroying our planetary home, not only for ourselves; but, for our children’s children. Do we really want to contribute to the end of earth as we know it? We have a chance to regain control; to reassess and redirect the future of the planet, by the choices we make, daily. We don’t need to buy into the lies of advertising companies, and others who stand to profit from: destroying our home; and, telling us what we need and do not need. We are smart individuals who have the opportunity to say, “STOP!” Our Earth is warming. Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6°F over the next hundred years. Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather. The evidence is clear. Rising global temperatures have been accompanied by changes in weather and climate. Many places have seen changes in rainfall, resulting in more floods, droughts, or intense rain, as well as more frequent and severe heat waves. More info: https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/climate-change-basic-information
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Now, there is, also, the issue of the immoral treatment of animals, who are our sentient family members. Those that fight against animal rights, are doing so; because, exploiting the animals, supports their own personal gain of, …money. They are trying to convince us, that it is okay to mistreat animals, and to strip animals of their rights; however, just as slavery is wrong, and persecution of anyone, for being different, is not okay …neither is the mistreatment, torture, and enslavement of any animal. Animals are voiceless and defenseless; and, that is why (before it is too late) we need to make this wrong into a right. It is time, to allow the animals, their well deserved freedom …their freedom from anguish, pain and exploitation. I know your heart tells you, that it’s especially wrong, to hurt a defenseless, trusting being. Help us, to end the cruelty and violence, against animals, everywhere. I know, most of us were raised to do: what the masses were doing; what our parents were doing; and, what their parents before them, were doing. But now, I ask you to put aside your ego, and your past disinterest, so you can reconnect with the compassionate being, that you really are. You can make a difference now, from this moment on, by choosing to begin anew, and choosing compassion over selfish desires. YOU can help heal the planet: of its poor health; and, of the war on animals. There is so much information, out there, to help you on your journey, of reconnection to your pure spiritual self. Every day, more and more people are becoming vegan. Everyday, more and more vegan products and services are “popping up.” Be a better version of you, by embracing veganism. Your choices make a difference, now.
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March 2017 Red and Green Vegan – Dancing with the Bars – Every Thursday - 8:30AM – Movement exercise program for balance and range of motion - Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM Saturday March 4, 2017 - 4:30PM ***New DAY & Time***Red and Green Vegan - Fusion Dance – (vegan snacks served) Partner dancing - Dance is every first Saturday of the month. Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal SE, Albuquerque NM April 2017 Red and Green Vegan – Dancing with the Bars – Every Thursday - 8:30AM – Movement exercise program for balance and range of motion - Bear Canyon Senior Center, 4645 Pitt St NE, Albuquerque NM
Saturday April 1, 2017 - 4:30PM Red and Green Vegan - Fusion Dance – (vegan snacks served) Partner dancing - Dance is every first Saturday of the month. Lloyd Shaw Dance Center, 5506 Coal SE, Albuquerque NM July 2017 Saturday July 1, 2017 – 9AM-6PM HeartnSole, LLC - Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque, Compassion in Action Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque NM If you have upcoming vegan events, let us know and we will include them in our calendar. Send email to welcome22day@gmail.com, Please write on subject line: NMV COE. Thank you.
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Respect For Animals, Too I believe, it is the profoundly moral fate, of every soul, to manifest, in a human life, the quality of: non-violence. One may ask, “Non-violent in relationship to …what?” To that query, I would answer, “Non-violent to: the only ‘category of nature’ that can be violated …the Animal Kingdom.” Harm to earth, plants, water, weather patterns, and so forth, can only be considered harmful …if it harms the Animal Kingdom …otherwise, who is going to suffer? Did the Pre-biological Earth, suffer? When there were no plants and no animals on Earth, were the elements (Air, Fire, Water, Soil) that now constitute the Earth, …were those elements, suffering? If there is no Animal Kingdom on Earth, and never will be; then who is there to care about “damage”? What of earthquakes, volcanoes, ice, drought, tornados, and other so-called natural “disasters” …damage is not damage, unless a member of the Animal Kingdom: suffers. Here on Earth, suffering is experienced by (a partial list, follows): those who inhale oxygen and bleed from a pumping heart; those who perpetuate their kind through sexual reproduction, which may include a gestation period within the mother, from whom the baby is born; those who have bones & muscles & skin, with the ability to flee and avoid harm (when the opportunity, to flee, exists); those who have five sensory-organs (Ears, Skin, Eyes, Mouth, Nose) on their face; those who have vocal chords, used for expression of thoughts and feelings (such as: meow, woof, moo, ouch, squeals, shrieks, moans, groans, etc.). Apparently, humanity needs more than these clues; we need divine-intervention: because, the Animal Kingdom is the one and only category of nature that needs protection from “the elements” …but, instead of offering protection, we are methodically slaughtering trillions, yearly. The Animal Kingdom, in order to maintain its happiness and wellbeing, also needs protection from, …itself. Some will say, “But it’s for food, it’s always been this way, it’s supposed to be this way.” My reply is this: Vegan food is the superior food. Furthermore, to say, “It has always been this way” is not a sufficiently reasonable reason for anything; there must be better support for an idea. For example, “Graveyards have always been;” however, if we could avoid death, we would, avoid death. If humanity learns to transcend suffering & death, no one will refuse that technology, on the basis that “Death, is how its always been.” The following comparison, implies that the desires, of our present human race, are based on greedy self-interest (due to innocent ignorance): Regarding human death……………………….…..“I can’t avoid it Regarding animal death (for human food)…..............“I can avoid it
--but– –but–
I would if I could;” I do not.”
Am I eager to prolong my life; but, just as eager to take another’s life, in order to keep up my selfish satisfactions? I believe that many people live their century, and never face that question. The question is always there, “whispering” to the conscience; but, some never hear it. If only it was shouted …not shouted by a person. No. The world will not become vegan through slanderous-condescension and blame …because, those are not true. Only “loving inspiration” will achieve something so great as: a vegan world. Everyone is vegan, …deep within; that vegan-nature just needs to be unveiled, in order to shine. At sunset, as I look to the east, the cliffs appear to be tinted with a golden hue --it is because the sunset, in the west, is casting its golden light upon the cliffs. East is reflecting west. Now, having just shouted the word “Compassion” to the cliffs, I am awaiting their echo …and now the cliffs are chanting back to me, “Compassion …compassion …compassion.” If I wish to have my basket be full of apples, I cast apples (not stones) into the basket. My point is, clearly, this: I must be to others, what I want them to be.
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Respect For Animals, Too – Cont’d If I say I have compassion, and I also say that your behavior is cruel; then, how do I reconcile these two seemingly contradictory attitudes. Well, it is simple: I am only being calmly objective (from my point of view). One needs to employ neither love nor hate, condemnation nor celebration; to acknowledge that the sky is blue, and to say it, “The sky is blue.” Do you disagree, fine; go ahead and disagree …but, does it have to become a war between us? Is this not the job of Law Enforcement Officials: my parking citation gets administered, yet the officer remains a friend to me and to society. Some changes are good; even so, someone will certainly contest even the good propositions (it is everyone’s right to do that). But, we should not quit when challenged, it is not an act of violence to peacefully persist, to “stand up” and speak the truth. My truth is this: It is the duty of every soul, to awaken, at some point along its human timelines, its inherently authentic “respect for animals.” I believe it is everyone’s destiny to come to the state of infinite & eternal bliss consciousness …everyone’s. Do I believe that carnivorous habits are cruel? Certainly, I do. When I reference “cruelty,” it is to “behavior” …the soul underlies the overlay of behaviors, habits, i.e., personality. Your soul, oh carnivore, is no different than mine …I was a carnivore, once. I do not hate you, I do not hate anyone; we (all) are bound to inherit everlasting peace. I simply want the torture of animals to cease, here and now, that’s all. The health and happiness of humans will follow. This is the beautiful benefit, that will come, when humanity has: full “respect for animals.”
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We like to share resources that are available with regards to veganism, services and or products. I hope you find the following links helpful as you maintain your cruelty free lifestyle.
. http://www.blackvegansrock.com/about/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LatinandVegan/posts/?ref=page_internal
http://www.jesuspeopleforanimals.com/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Buddha-The-Vegan-and-You-1696508893919646/?ref=timeline_chaining
https://www.jewishveg.org/
https://www.vegantravel.com/ https://www.facebook.com/veterinaryvegannetwork/
http://www.vegdocs.com/ http://www.vegan.com/ NM Vegan | 24
Innocently “Doing Time” …Until We All Go To: PEACE—IS - Johnan Aretell Respect- a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something, elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. Verily, that is one definition …however, if one admires the taste, in some quality of an animal’s flesh, while chewing on its carcass, is that a demonstration of respect for the animal? True respect, whatever its full definition, must begin with the pledge to: “Do no harm.” No one will admit that a human is being respected, who is being treated like the animal, that is now being served on to someone’s dinner plate. Why, then, does humanity appear to be so radically disrespectful to animals, and to such absurd proportions? I suppose we feel
that we have been granted permission, to do the ugly thing. How would you reason with a person who believes that a spiritual creator is sanctioning their carnivorous diet? That seems to be a case, beyond reasoning, wherein that person’s compassion might only grow, due to a profoundly life changing experience (other than a debate), such as a fatal disease, wherein a doctor prescribes, a plants-only menu, in order to heal. Or, as in the case of my neighbor, who was a professional meat grinder. She was touring an old manufacturing facility, while vacationing in Europe, when she fell into a ventilation shaft. She was sliding down the shaft, toward a whirling fan/propeller (similar to a giant lawn-mower blade). The fan was not guarded by any covering, such as a grill or screen. The only thing between her crap and the fan, were the agonizing seconds of time. Needless to say, she was terrified; but, what’s more, it was her first real direct experience of terror. Until she nearly slid into her own slaughter, her personal height of terror, came merely from watching actors, feign fright and misery, in horror movies. Fortunately, someone switched off the power to the fan, preventing her from being pulverized. She survived; but, did lose one of her feet. Well, a few days prior to this accident, while she was at work, she intentionally forced a live chicken through a meat grinder. As the animal was being mutilated, she felt a strange sense of satisfaction, mixed with a sick feeling of guilt. As she lay on the hospital bed, waiting to hear whether her foot could be successfully reattached, she was searching her motives, …why did she destroy a living and innocent creature, in such a gruesome way, …and what was the reason for even killing, at all? “What have I become,” she desperately implored, of her tormented conscience. “The sweet person I was, as a young girl, would never have been so cruel.” She screamed aloud, startling the hospital personnel, “I will never ever kill or eat …another animal! And I quit my job!” Whew, I am guessing: that I do not need to go on and on, here; that most people, on either side of the “carnivorous conundrum” –either, for or against-- are already comfortable and confident in their resolve on the matter…but, what am I to do …it’s a magazine. I’m on a “one-way street” for …saying stuff, here… on the chance that there is some value in it. I cannot look you in the eye, and plead with you, to convince me that I am crazy.
Well, at the very least, it is a chance for me to practice things like: unconditional & universal …unity; noncondemnation; patience; and, perhaps most importantly… my own peace …amid the chaos.
Now, returning to
my previous comments, did I really need to use the word “carcass,” with a particular reference to something that is being chewed by a …human?” On the other hand, am I imagining a grotesque fictional drama? Au contraire. It is a grotesque factual drama. Is, using the word “carcass” …worse than causing a living animal to be a carcass? (I’ll let it go, there; but, I must end on a positive note). I, too, believe: every soul, is innocent, & will experience neverending peace. Peace is, and we surely will deserve it, after “doing our time” here on Earth.
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