non-violence

US taxpayers pay for baby monkeys to be bred for mental illness

baby monkey wrapped in blanket PETA

US taxpayers pay $16 billion dollars each year on deadly and cruel experiments to animals. This year alone, dozens of BABY monkeys at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory in Maryland will be bred to be prone to mental illness. By strengthening PETA's work you can help save more than 100 million animals. Recently PETA's work has freed elephants from the cruel existence in circuses as Ringling Brothers will stop using elephants in their circus acts. Ticket sales for circuses are [Read more...]

The Beauty of Living with Peace through Non-Violence

From: Lighthouse Center Inc, Whitmore Lake, MI Beacon newsletter, Jan.-April, Volume 70 The Beauty of Living with Peace through Non-Violence March 1996 by Gurudev Shree Chitabhanuji As a photograph has a two-way process; a negative and a positive, non-violence is also expressed in two aspects: to do and not to do, commission and omission. The first aspect is karuna: a commitment to loving compassion, a feeling of equality with all life. And the second is ahinsa: not to harm, not to [Read more...]

More Walmart cruetly – Fish kept in horrible conditions until they ‘sell or die’

I was horrified when my friend sent me this picture of a fish she saw on the shelves at Walmart. The Betta fish are being kept in sealed containers, full of filthy brown water. When my friend asked a sales associate about the fish, she told her that Walmart keeps the fish on their shelves "until they sell or die." I started a Care2 petition demanding Walmart stop keeping fish in such cruel conditions. Will you sign it? My friend saw the Betta fish stacked on a shelf - the dead among the living [Read more...]