Oscar Wilde once said “When the gods
wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” For many, this is much
hoped for money that is inherited from a lost loved one or a job that
creates more problems than it solves. For one vegetarian animal
rights activist, the gods had bigger plans. She would pray at night
that the savages of the world would understand the suffering their
food endured before reaching its plate. In the morning, her soy latte
bemoaned the pain of being ground and boiled and her salad lunch
cried at the agonies of being ripped from the mother vine and hacked
to bits while still fresh and alive. By dinner, her perspective on
food had completely changed. She would eat only nuts and fruit that
had fallen from the tree, and of course meat she killed herself, the
free range cow having had a fair chance to fight back.
- Originally mailed to K. Ballard of Owensborough, Kentucky
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