<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460498" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0028 Root for the Vegetable Rights Movement!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s the inevitable march, <br>the golden-hearted chain, <br>of Ultimate Compassion: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">yesterday, a group of anglers, <br>danglers in the river for hours on end<br>of peaceful anticipation<br>punctuated by a rare bite<br>from a fish, which then the most sporting<br>unhook and throw back to freedom rather than<br>yet another fish supper</div><div style="margin:10px 0">were set upon by a group of 35<br>‘protesters’… you do the math, <br>how many man-hours to save<br>one fish? With the courage<br>of their convictions, the trawler fleet<br>should be their next sea-green<br>seasick target… and on a smaller scale, <br>obviously the shore of the Sea of Galilee<br>is a high-profile target (assuming that<br>it’s not in the fighting zone at the time…) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there’s more to come –<br>the Vegetable Rights movement<br>which so far has kept underground (…) <br>has a huge task ahead, as it <br>gains ground so to speak: <br>those poor baby peas, mown down at dewy-fingered dawn<br>like army deserters in the First World War, <br>are the obvious target for our grief; <br>then the vast plains of America<br>slaughtering wheat for our daily bread<br>(and here again, the Sea of Galilee comes to mind –<br>do miracles have rights too?) these great plains<br>must come under fundamental survey…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and as the Compassion Movement gathers pace, <br>there’s all those mosquitoes in Africa and elsewhere<br>so cruelly deprived of their right<br>to sting like cornered terrorists, <br>and don’t viruses have their rights too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then comes a difficult moral decision –<br>what of animals that kill other animals? <br>Whose side are we on there? Which has <br>the greater rights to life and freedom? Brothers and sisters, <br>bleeding hearts, there’s much work to be done…<br>let's hope that war doesn't interfere with<br>our compassionate fight for rights..</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460498" data-title="0028 Root for the Vegetable Rights Movement! de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It’s the inevitable march, the golden-hearted chain, of Ultimate Compassion: yesterday, a group of anglers, danglers in the river for hours on end of peaceful anticipation punctuated by a rare bite from a fish, which then the most sporting ..."></div> </div> </div>

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