Look into the heart of your religion’s teachings on compassion, and look into your own heart,

[Guest guest]

“Look into the heart of your religion’s teachings on compassion, and

look into your own heart,

 

Put aside your old habits and selfish appetites, and be honest with

yourself.

 

Animals are beings like us, sentient, conscious, and fully able to

experience suffering and joy. They love life and fear death.

 

And yet every year we murder them by the billions for food that we do

not need to live long, healthy lives.

 

Can we honestly call this holocaust anything but evil?

 

There is no way that people of faith can be true to the deepest values

of their religion and still eat animal products.”

 

Norm Phelps <http://www.lanternbooks.com/author.html?au=1500>, founding

member of the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians

<http://www.serv-online.org/>