Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, vegetarianism, and KPFA

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

In their news lead-in to Democracy Now!, KPFA included the clip below from UFW's

co-founder, Dolores Huerta. The interview was from the Cesar Chavez Day

Parade/Festival in San Francisco on Saturday. I tried my best to transcribe it

as spoken:

 

DH: His contributions are just absolutely enormous. In fact, just walking down

here to come to the stage here this afternoon, I passed by one of the booths

that's here, where they are talking about vegetarianism and people eating a

vegan diet. Of course, Cesar was a vegetarian, and he really believed very

strongly that people should become vegetarians, and that would not only improve

one's health, but also would improve the health of all of the animals that we

don't have to slaughter to eat them. And then his whole legacy of non-violence,

which is a very strong message that we need, especially in today's violent

world. And the other thing is about service to others. He really believed that

our lives that we live on this earth – it should be here for only one reason and

that is to give service to others; and this is that we make the world a better

place.

 

the actual clip can be found 2 minutes 26 seconds in at:

http://kpfa.org/archive/id/60156

 

Si se puede!

Donna