{"id":3558,"date":"2012-05-18T22:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:20:58","slug":"everyday-is-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/everyday-is-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday is Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Earth-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>I am not really big on celebrating holidays. The word HOLIDAY comes from holy day.\u00a0 One of the most sacred holidays for me is Earth Day.\u00a0 The only change I would make to the date of the celebration is to make it 365 days of the year.\u00a0 I also love Mother\u2019s Day, but for me it is also every day of the year and it focuses on non-human and human mothers who routinely have their young taken away.\u00a0 This callous separation of close-knit families is always done for greed\/profit.\u00a0 Whether it is a human child sold as a slave to pay a family debt, a calf torn away from his or her mother so that humans can steal her milk, a young elephant stolen so he or she can be trained to do unnatural acts for human entertainment, an adult chimp killed and her baby stolen for invasive experimentation and a life of imprisonment or a puppy sold by a puppy mill while still at an age where he should be with his mother\u2026.all cause intense emotional pain for both mother and child.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Most holidays have completely lost their meaning.\u00a0 Very few people know that most holidays mean more than an extra day or two off work.\u00a0 We are trained from early on in our lives that it is OK to have major inconsistencies in what we say we care about and how we actually choose to live our lives.\u00a0 When the Be Kind To Animals Week banner is stretched across the same wall at the school where the hamburgers are listed on the school lunch menu or we hear &#8220;peace on earth&#8221; repeatedly for a holiday that consists of buying a bunch of stuff and eating animals, we learn that holidays are not about their original intention.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3586\" title=\"local tabling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/local.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/local.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/local-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>I tabled at three large events for Earth Day week.\u00a0 Our table had outreach material for compassionate environmentally responsible and healthy food choices.\u00a0 We were the vegan table.\u00a0 Two of the events included people selling or displaying baby goats, piglets and young chicks.\u00a0 The food sold at these two events was 95% animal products.\u00a0 The smell of grilling flesh permeated the air for both full days.\u00a0 One person came up to our booth and said, \u201cYou may have the only booth that is appropriate for Earthday.\u201d\u00a0 I actually found a few other booths that sold appropriate items like organic local seedlings and solar cookers and some trying to preserve wild lands and care for animals.\u00a0 But, for the most part, the events were just parties and most people attending were not giving earth-friendly choices much attention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My third tabling was at a local college.\u00a0 Most people zoomed by the table not wanting to know about anything that may change their consumer habits.\u00a0 One man was wearing a t-shirt that had the word PRIVILEGE with the red cross-out over it.\u00a0 He was telling his friend that he would never even consider being vegetarian.\u00a0 I piped in that he may not want to wear that shirt while saying that.\u00a0 He was very quiet from that point on.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pig.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/pig-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/>.<\/div>\n<div>An older woman came by the table and quietly watched the Farm to Fridge film I had running continuously throughout the day.\u00a0 This incredible Mercy for Animals compilation includes a look at the violent realities of food animal industries.\u00a0 This woman said to me, \u201cWe would never do it this way.\u00a0 This is terrible.\u00a0 We do it the traditional way, the kind way.\u201d\u00a0 I asked her what the kind way was.\u00a0 \u201cWe just shoot them in the head,\u201d she responded proudly.\u00a0 Then she continued, \u201cThey send the women into the house and then shoot them in the head.\u00a0 It is very quick.\u201d\u00a0 I asked her, \u201cIf it is a kind way, why do they send the women into the house?\u201d\u00a0 She got a distant look and then just kept repeating, \u201cThis is awful, we do it the kind way\u2026.this is awful, we do it the kind way.\u201d\u00a0 I told her that in my family we decided that the kind way was to not unnecessarily kill any living being. She grabbed a little literature and then wandered off, still saying \u201cWe do it the kind way, we do it the kind way.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>I would love to see Earth Day not only celebrated everyday, but to see it celebrated with some actual mindfulness about how our personal choices affect the earth and all her inhabitants.\u00a0 We can all work to make our local Earth Day celebrations retain some of the integrity they were meant to have.\u00a0 Go ahead and get your face painted, dance to some good music, celebrate with friends, and make sure that every booth, product and message is consistent with caring for the Earth.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/face-painting-490x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/face-painting-490x250.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/face-painting-490x250-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>.<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>Tabling is not my favorite form of outreach, but on my most sacred of holidays, Earth Day, I am more than willing to give my time and energy to at least trying to preserve a little bit of the original intention of the day and be a voice for the voiceless.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . 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The word HOLIDAY comes from holy day.\u00a0 One of the most sacred holidays for me is Earth Day.\u00a0 The only change I would make to the date of the celebration is to make it 365 days of the year.\u00a0 I also love Mother\u2019s Day, but for me it is also every day of the year and it focuses on non-human and human mothers who routinely have their young taken away.\u00a0 This callous separation of close-knit families is always done for greed\/profit.\u00a0 Whether it is a human child sold as a slave to pay a family debt, a calf torn away from his or her mother so that humans can steal her milk, a young elephant stolen so he or she can be trained to do unnatural acts for human entertainment, an adult chimp killed and her baby stolen for invasive experimentation and a life of imprisonment or a puppy sold by a puppy mill while still at an age where he should be with his mother\u2026.all cause intense emotional pain for both mother and child. . 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