one of my older paintings

Environmental, Healthe and Karmic reasons to go Vegan

Hello my lovelies! Here are just some of the reasons you may be considering a vegan lifestyle. Let's have a good look at ourselves, and see what we think!

Pounds of edible product that can be produced on an acre of prime land:
Apples........20,000
Carrots.......30,000
Potatoes......40,000
Tomatoes.....50,000
Beef...........250

The number of gallons of water needed to produce one pound of edible product:
Apples........49
Carrots.......33
Potatoes......24
Tomatoes.....23
Beef...........2,500

-5 million acres of rainforest are felled every year in South and Central America to create cattle pasture.

-Cattle ranching has destroyed more Central American rainforest than any other activity.

-Factory farms are the biggest contributors to polluted rivers and streams in the U.S.

-More soot is emitted from the grills in Los Angeles fast food restaurants than all the city buses.

-Nearly half of all the fish sampled by Consumers Union was contaminated with bacteria from human or animal feces.

*Information taken from Glen E. Friedman's Interesting Vegan Facts
www.southern.net/BURNINGFLAGS/VEGANVEGAN.html

sweet potato plantain roast

vegan quotes#6-10

#6. "Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy

#7. "I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
-Ghandhi

#8. "I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals." -Henry Thoreau

#9. "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being" -Abraham Lincoln

#10. "If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." -Albert Einstein

our coconut fruit salad!

josh and his skateboard

Me in Algonquin Park!

my awesome vegan paté!

New Year, New Beginning.

Happy New Year to everyone! This will be a good one - I promise! My resolutions are as follows:

1. To intention way more (focus on the things I want to see in this world).
2. Eat more organic, local, and seasonal food.
3. Go hiking outside of the city as often as possible.
4. Take workshops on earth home building.
5. Do as much as I can to spread the word that vegan = environmental action now!
6. To not settle for anything less than wonderful.
7. Grow an organic vegetable garden on my roof and inside my house. (also save the seeds)