Parker Palmer was a guest on yesterday’s Bill Moyers Journal on PBS
television. This was a fascinating discussion, and for today I am
going to quote just a few of Parker Palmer’s many observations that
impressed me. This is what he had to say about the current financial
situation:
“Who didn't know that housing was over-evaluated? That stocks were
overpriced? Who didn't know that a system that makes the rich richer
while the poor get poorer will someday face a curtain call? We all
knew that at some level, just like we know we're going to die. And yet
our capacity to deny reality is huge. And I think that we don't want
to know what we really know because if we did, we'd have to change our
lives. And now we have to change our lives because the whole thing is
crashing down around our head.”
Concerning the denial of reality, I think the following statement can
be applied to the abuse that exploited animals suffer: People don’t want
to know what they really know because if they did, they’d have to change
their lives; and very soon they will have to change their lives because
the whole thing will be crashing down around their heads with mass
pollution and disease.
Do you see the connection? So many people don’t want to be told about
the horrors suffered by the farmed animals whose body parts and
secretions are a part of their meals. Unfortunately, even when “the
whole thing” comes “crashing down around” their heads, and they succumb
to diseases caused by their eating habits – the SAD diet (standard
American diet) – most refuse to consider “going vegan.”
For vegan health articles, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/health.html
For information about animals, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/index.html
