Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Human Slavery and Chocolate
This Halloween, when buying chocolate, keep in mind how your chocolate was harvested. It is not uncommon to use child labor, and is some cases slavery, to harvest chocolate in Africa. These farms supply cocoa to corporations such as Hershey's, Mars and Nestle...who clearly have no issue with human trafficking and slavery. If you are against these things then I suggest you vote with your dollars. For more information and for information on companies that do not support these heinous abuses go here
Here is another article written at the time, by a high school senior. That is also where I grabbed the above comic strip.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Save the Whales
Japan announced it will resume whale hunting this winter. Lucky for the whales, Paul Watson and his team at Sea Shepherd, are on the side of the whales..go Team Whales! Please go to Whales Revenge If you would like to sign a petition supporting Sea Shepherd. They would like to get one million signatures. Go here for more information on what you can do to help. Go here to read a great interview on Captain Paul Watson.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer and Nobel laureate (1902–1991)
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
-- Mohandas Gandhi
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