Apr08
Happy Easter (From Here to Slovenia)!
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First of all, Happy Easter from everyone at PETA!
Now, as a little food for thought for the Easter holidays, here's the transcript of the 2007 Easter Message by the Slovenian President (and my new personal hero) Dr. Janez Drnovsek. President Bush, I really hope you're paying attention:
"The Easter Holidays are near. Let’s spend them in peace and good company. You can also renounce the ham, chocolate-eggs should be sufficient for an Easter atmosphere.
Would it not be more harmonious if we did not associate religious celebrations directly with ham and other non-spiritual symbols? Do really so many animals have to die when we celebrate higher consciousness and try to develop spiritually? The answer is clear: of course not.
Feasts don’t have much to do with spirituality, just the opposite. Even considering that we can try to understand that in some eras, in which food was scarce, religious events were celebrated with banquets, we can now leave such material remnants behind us. True spirituality does not need them, just the opposite, because they show us that religions demanding such identifications got stuck at a relatively low level of consciousness.
That’s why we’ll try to celebrate the occasion differently this time. We use the opportunity for a walk in nature, for a cleansing of the spirit, for the search for internal peace. We are friendly to our family, our neighbours and all those suffering in this world. Also to animals. We spare them this time from our lust for meat and we try to overcome historical behavior patterns.
We will do something good for our spirit and our body."
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Wonderful. If this Seal slaughter happens again next year I just might consider moving to Slovenia...
Posted by: doug | April 8, 2007 05:53 PM
Wow! Now i feel like moving to slovenia. At least their gov't leader has a brain! lol thanx again
Posted by: Sam | April 8, 2007 06:14 PM
Well that's a nice change. Too bad that won't rub off on the Bush Administration.
Posted by: Jennifer | April 9, 2007 02:42 PM
If it makes you all at PETA feel better, I had raman noodles for the easter holiday...and a few chocolate eggs, heh. My family and I are vegetarians, so ham is not in the plan. I wish other people could do the same thing. Yay vegies!!
Posted by: Shoji K. | April 9, 2007 07:40 PM