Have you seen this?
http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php
Its beautiful, and painful at the same time....and worth the watch.
Hope this finds you well my friend.
Nikki
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Harry | August 1, 2011
A Gentle Place was not set up to be a vegan blog. There are already plenty of those out there. They inspire me, educate me, challenge me, support me, nourish me - just last night we had guests over for dinner: Moroccan vegan meal prepared by Sue and Vegan Black Bean Brownies prepared by your [...]
Harry | July 23, 2011
Humane is a key word whenever the discussion of dietary habits comes up; we’re repeatedly told that as long as an animal is killed humanely it’s OK to eat them. Mmmm … something doesn’t seem right there. It’s OK to bring billions of birds and animals into this world for the sole sake of an [...]
Harry | July 6, 2011
Are you as tired as I am of hearing the words ‘I love my animals’ emanating from the lips of those that regularly abuse, mutilate or murder animals. Like harmers (‘farmers’ of animals of any sort – thank you John Sakars). Puppy mill owners. Race-horse owners. The ‘in touch’ woman in the next valley who, [...]
Harry | June 18, 2011
She’s fragile. Like a porcelain doll that’s fallen and broken so many times that the glue now sits in lumps at the joins, Tobi’s residual feline leprosy tumours are a reminder of the disease that almost killed her. After 6 weeks of twice daily antibiotics with the leprosy worsening at an exponential rate we stopped the [...]
Harry | June 8, 2011
This is the title of a Paul Kelly song that tells the story of Vincent Lingiari, an Australian Aboriginal rights activist, who staged a walk-off of indigenous employees from Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory over pay and work conditions. Given the human rights issues, and Vincent having worked on a major cattle [...]
Harry | May 25, 2011
BlingBling is a goat that most would consider did not need rescuing. She had a home. She had access to food and water. She even had her own little shelter. Tweet
Harry | May 17, 2011
The recent activity on this blog – well, lack of such – might have given you the impression that life at Avondale had stopped for a while. Not so. A combination of growing mental and emotional exhaustion from almost 3 years of simultaneously doing 2 near-full-time jobs (bound to ever-remarkable android and iPad technology insidiously [...]
Harry | February 7, 2011
Today is Plato’s birthday. We would have wished him by our bedside as we awoke but today it had to be down along the river where has a prime spot overlooking his favourite jigsaw puzzle piece of Nature. When I spent time with him this morning we spoke about death, his death, for the first [...]
Harry | December 29, 2010
Animals, particularly those of Avondale, regularly amaze me with their displays of unadulterated love and friendship. Sure, it’s a two-way street, and no doubt when they chat to each other they do offer some acknowledgement of the friendship efforts I exert. But while on a buddy scale of 1-10 I’d probable muddle somewhere around the [...]
Harry | October 26, 2010
Today I find myself in the Veggie Patch writing this post. Spending quality time with 2 dogs. Yes, TWO dogs. Abbey’s arrived at Avondale and, while already far less anxious than she was on arrival 4 days ago, she’s still very uncertain of humans, including us gentle Avondalians. Should her new-found pack-mate, Chelsea, not be right [...]
