Today a great conversation with host Michael and Andrew Harvey.
Andrew Harvey is a world-renowned scholar and teacher and is the author of over thirty books, including the critically acclaimed Son of Man and Journey in Ladakh, and coauthor of the best selling The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
Born in South India in 1952, he studied at Oxford University and became the youngest person ever awarded a fellowship to the prestigious All Souls College. He has devoted the past twenty five years of his life to studying the world's various mystical traditions, living in London, Paris, New Your, and San Francisco, and teaching at Oxford, Cornell, and the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Free Range Fraud
The RSPCA is
deceiving consumers and profiting from animal suffering. Animal Liberation
Victoria has been investigating the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme, from which
the RSPCA receives royalties, for the last 14 months. Over this time we have
uncovered heartbreaking animal cruelty and filthy living conditions on RSPCA
Approved Farms. ALV's investigation has clearly exposed the fraudulent nature
of this scheme.
Pig farms
that have been approved by the RSPCA have failed to provide every one of the
“five freedoms” animals are entitled to under the RSPCA's Approved Farming
Scheme. During our investigation 18 pigs were rescued, they suffered various
injuries and illnesses including pneumonia, broken legs, cerebral palsy,
testicular hernias, open necrotic wounds, septic arthritis, vaginal prolapses,
and failure to thrive due to skeletal deformities. We routinely saw pigs living
chest deep in their own excrement. We also repeatedly found corpses in various
stages of decay, and dead pigs being cannibalised.
Sadly many
of the pigs we rescued did not live, even with the best care. Those who
survived are now living happy free lives in loving sanctuaries.
People are
rightly outraged at the appalling conditions the majority of pigs suffer in
today's industrialized 'factory farms', yet many are unaware of the immense
cruelty that is part and parcel of the ‘free range’ farm industry. Our
investigation has shown that pigs being bred and killed as part of the RSPCA
Approved Farming Scheme are living lives of misery in disgusting unsanitary
conditions.
Pigs are
highly intelligent social animals with the ability to feel both pain and
pleasure. They are not ‘things’ for humans to breed, slaughter, consume and
profit from.
Free range
is a fraud that is betraying the animals and the public. Don’t buy the lies!
Take action now… freerangefraud.com
Monday, October 28, 2013
Great Conversation with Karen Davis
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/getyourbodyintobalance/2013/10/18/get-your-body-into-balance Karen Davis, PhD, President United Poultry Concerns PO BOX 150 • Machipongo, VA 23405 757-678-7875 • Fax: 757-678-5070 Karen@UPC-online.org www.upc-online.orgKaren Davis is the founding editor of Poultry Press, the quarterly magazine of United Poultry Concerns, chosen one of the BEST Nonprofit Publications in North America by UTNE magazine. “Thanks to Karen Davis, chickens and turkeys are now front-and-center on the animal rights agenda.” – Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle, 2007 | |||
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Great Conversation with Host Michael and guest Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/getyourbodyintobalance/2013/10/24/get-your-body-into-balance
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. He has a 39-year-old daughter, Simone, who who recently became board certified as a Nurse Practitioner in Gerontology. His wife Leila is a pediatrician and they have two sons: Ilan and Manu. They live on a beach in Auckland with three cats and Benjy the Failed Guide Dog - the hero of Jeff's book - The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family in New Zealand. He has a 39-year-old daughter, Simone, who who recently became board certified as a Nurse Practitioner in Gerontology. His wife Leila is a pediatrician and they have two sons: Ilan and Manu. They live on a beach in Auckland with three cats and Benjy the Failed Guide Dog - the hero of Jeff's book - The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving.
Jeff has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University. He was Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto. While at the university he trained as a Freudian analyst (from 1971-1979) graduating as a full member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. In 1980 he became Project Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives.
Given access to Freud's papers in London and the Library of Congress, his research led him to believe that Freud made a mistake when he stopped believing that the source of much human misery lay in sexual abuse. Masson's view was so controversial within traditional analytic circles that he was fired from the archives and had his membership in the international society taken away. Janet Malcolm has written a book about this episode (In the Freud Archives - the subject of a libel suit by Masson) and Jeff has published a series of books critical of Freud, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and therapy.
Jeffrey and his family
Skeptical that humans could be understood (at least by psychologists) Masson turned to animals. In 1995 he published When Elephants Weep, an international best seller, followed by the equally popular Dogs Never Lie About Love.
Since those two books he has published 7 more books about animals, looking in every one at their emotions: About cats he wrote The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (along with a fable, The Cat Who Came in from the Cold); He looked at fatherhood in the animal world and the lessons to be learned for humans in The Evolution of Fatherhood; writing about the emotional world of farm animals in The Pig Who Sang to the Moon turned Jeff into a vegan.
Lately he wondered why animals did not engage in genocide, and wrote Raising the Peaceable Kingdom. He wrote an encyclopedia of his 100 favorite animals (often with an animal-rights angle) called Altruistic Armadillos - Zenlike Zebras. His next most recent book is The Face on Your Plate - The Truth About Food
His most recent book, Dogs Make Us Human, about the evolution of dogs and humans in tandem, was published in September 2011.
Jeff’s new book is called Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil. It is due out in March, from Bloomsbury USA. It is available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble.
Leila, and Jeff are vegans. Manu, Ilan and his rat are vegetarian. Their three cats could not be persuaded to follow either philosophy, and are, alas, carnivores. Benjy could be a vegan, but Jeff feels that he should not force him into this lifestyle, which should be a choice.
What I Believe
Cat and Mouse
I believe that in 500 years (maybe less) people will look back on us and wonder about many things. No doubt behavior we consider normal today will inspire horror in our more enlightened successors. War, for example. But I also think they may believe our disdain of insects is incomprehensible. Perhaps they will marvel that we could so easily cut down trees and perhaps even flowers.
I am completely opposed to any form of animal exploitation, including animal experimentation, keeping animals in zoos or in circuses, (indeed any form of captivity for animals), the use of leather, fur, wool and silk. I am even questioning my use of hearts of palm and maple syrup (thinking about the wounds necessary to create the sap). I also have begun to wonder whether any domesticated animal can lead an ideal life in the company of humans. Cats seem to me to come the closest, when they are able to wander freely and in safety.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is dedicated to the emotional lives of animals, vegetarianism, veganism (the ethics of food), animal rights, and human-animal interactions.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Great Conversation with Sarah Woodcock from The Abolitionist Vegan Society
Today a Great Conversation with Theresa, Michael and Sarah
Woodcock from The Abolitionist Vegan Society.
The mission of TAVS is a grassroots movement of abolitionist
veganism around the world that reflects recognition of the moral personhood of
nonhuman animals. Creative nonviolent
vegan education is the foundation of our movement.
TAVS core value is nonviolence which necessitates veganism
and the rejection of all oppression which is inherently violent, unjust, and
interrelated.
http://abolitionistvegansociety.org
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