It’s Earth Day, and because one of the most effective ways to fight climate change is to stop consuming animal flesh and other food ingredients derived from animals, we want to know what actions you are taking to help others realize that “meat’s not green.” Tell us about your efforts in the comment section, and you might score the eco-chic “Tofu Never Screams” tote as well as PETA’s reusable, BPA-free water bottle.

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• If you haven’t already, pledge to go vegan.
• Help your friends face the facts by posting our “Meat’s Not Green” video on your Facebook page.
• Post our carbon calculator on your blog.

Two entries drawn at random will win both the tote and the bottle. The contest ends on April 29, 2010, and we’ll pick the winners on May 3, 2010. Be sure to read our privacy policy and terms and conditions, as you’re agreeing to both by commenting.

Happy Earth Day!

And one would like to help – no, that’s the wrong word – one would like in education to bring death into some kind of reality, actuality, not of someone else dying but of each one of us, however old or young, having inevitably to face that thing. It is not a sad affair of tears, of loneliness, of separation. We kill so easily, not only the animals for one’s food but the vast unnecessary killing for amusement, called sport – killing a deer because that is the season. Killing a deer is like killing your neighbour. You kill animals because you have lost touch with nature, with all the living things on this earth. You kill in wars for so many romantic, nationalistic, political, ideologies. In the name of God you have killed people. Violence and killing go together. As one looked at that dead leaf with all its beauty and colour, maybe one would very deeply comprehend, be aware of, what one’s own death must be, not at the very end but at the very beginning. Death isn’t some horrific thing, something to be avoided, something to be postponed, but rather something to be with day in and day out. And out of that comes an extraordinary sense of immensity. 

Krishnamurti to Himself

Killing a deer is like killing your neighbour | Daily Quotes Arquive – J. Krishnamurti Online.

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