“Well consider the word ‘people’, for example. If I asked someone what the word ‘people’ means they would probably say: “It’s the plural of ‘person’ and a person is a human being.””
“Ok, I’m with you so far …”
“but I think that definition is incomplete.”
“How do you mean?”
“To my mind, the definition of ‘a person’ is anyone with an individual personality. Like you Chiksa, you have your own distinct personality don’t you?”
“Absolutely!”
“And you’re not like every other chicken in the yard?”
“Certainly not! I’m not bossy like Henny-Penny, or painfully shy like Henrietta.”
“So you see my point. You are not human but you have a personality and that makes you a person. That makes all animals people.”
“That’s the logical conclusion to draw, yes.”
“Which brings me to my next thought: why do people think it’s ok to eat people?”
We had to do some shopping in Brighton today so we indulged ourselves in a visit to the Loving Hut while we were there. Twice actually – once before we started shopping and again when we were finished. On our second visit we were especially lucky because the lovely ladies at The Hut brought out two cupcakes on the house for me and Miranda while my husband waited for the dessert he’d ordered 😀
Shirley was captured in the wild in 1953 when she was 5 years old. She performed for twenty-four years with the Carson and Barnes Circus, then lived at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo for another twenty-two years.
Her back right leg was broken thirty years ago when she was attacked by a fellow circus elephant. She is missing a large section of her right ear as result of a fire which not only injured her ear but also left several scars on her back, side and feet.
July 6, 1999
Shirley and Tarra liked each other right from the start! Shirley showed Tarra all her injuries that she received when attacked by another elephant at the circus. Tarra sympathetically inspected each injury and the two elephants caressed each other with their trunks. Fruits and vegetables awaited Shirley when she entered the Sanctuary Barn. Cabbages, oranges, watermelon, squash… all sorts of yummy food to show Shirley how much we already loved her! Tarra squashed the watermelon, then helped herself to much of it.
July 22, 2013
Shirley’s 65th birthday party was a BLAST! Shirley has given us every reason to believe to that we will be celebrating her birthday for many years to come.
Reflecto Girl #1 now has it’s own page. We have decided to divide our comic Jasmine into its 3 separate stories so that in future you can go straight to the story (or episode) you want to read. New paint jobs for some of the early stories are under way but as soon as they’re complete they’ll be posted on their own pages. Click on the picture if you want to read Reflecto Girl #1. This is just the beginning 🙂
7 year-olds Thomas and Elliot model their new Violet’s Vegan Comics T-shirts.
Want to join our exclusive club and get your picture on here? Of course you do! (Cunning disguises provided!)
It’s easy – just download any picture you like from this site and send it to an ethical custom T-shirt company who will put it on a fair trade organic cotton T-shirt for you.
We just found this wonderful video on Youtube. It has subtitles but it’s only 2 and a half minutes long so please watch it. Such a beautiful little boy 🙂
I was just browsing other people’s blogs when I came across this post, titled ‘Napping on a shoulder under a collar’ on Rethinking Life. It reminded me of the little house marten that my daughter rescued ten years ago because this bird also used to take a nap on her shoulder under her collar. He/she was a pretty little thing who touched our lives briefly and then flew away. Here’s a couple of pics of Eve (my daughter) with Minnie (her house marten friend):
Eve with Minnie August 2003
Eve and Minnie getting some fresh air. August 2003
It hasn’t escaped my notice (since posting instalments of episodes from Jasmine stories) that some of those early stories could do with a new paint job! So I am having fun painting the old pictures and I will stick them in the comics when they’re fit to be seen 🙂
All this week I’ve been in denial about my dissatisfaction with Where are you going Deidra? I was so excited about finishing it, and I’d set myself a target of the end of last week, that I didn’t pause to think about whether it really was finished. I was so focussed on getting across the message about the true cost of dairy farming, that I temporarily lost sight of my primary intention – to provide happy, positive, vegan inspiration for children, not to depress them. I think it’s ok for me to put more serious, grown up items on the blog occasionally, and I think it’s important to be open and truthful about the harsh realities of animal exploitation. I’m very glad I posted the heart-breaking story about the dairy cow who made the decision to hide one of her twins in the woods and give the farmer the other, rather than lose both. Everyone needs to know that. She deserves to have her story told and I know that it has touched the hearts of everyone who has read it. The same goes for my poem. But for the children I want to provide hope, happiness and enjoyment.
Positivity is the way forward and positivity, fun and entertainment is the way we want to encourage veganism at Violet’s Vegan Comics. We want to give something good to bright, happy, kind, veggie children. And we want to enlighten the instinctively compassionate little ones who haven’t heard of veganism but who are naturally inclined towards it. The stories on this website are for all children – even grown up ones – and I hope they will be enjoyed by everyone who reads them.
I therefore decided Where are you going Deidra? wasn’t finished. It needed a fully rounded happy ending that all children’s stories should have. So today I’ve finished it. I’ve worked all day and I’m pleased with it now.
Then I made double chocolate chip cookies (I added some fair trade cocoa to the recipe from Jasmine #3 ) which gave my day a very very satisfying ending indeed 🙂
VEGAN DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (not a brilliant photo but, take my word for it, they’re good!)
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