1. Free Download to Documentary "From Food to Freedom"
Until midnight on 3/22, you can watch the new
documentary “From Food to Freedom”, produced by the nonprofit Plant Pure
Communities. It is a remarkable story about six people with diabetes who see
whether they can reverse their disease using food as medicine.
Here is the link:
Click here to watch From Food to Freedom.
2. Earth Day 2023
Sunday, April 23 is Earth Day, and this is an excellent opportunity to have an information table or to encourage your pastor to show the connection between what we eat and the major environmental challenges of our day, including climate change, resource depletion, and food security.
For more suggestions or information, contact lorenavalenziveg@gmail.com.
3. Activist Feedback
Regarding a Winter Jam event in Kansas City, Rick Hershey writes:
I handed out 1300 CVA booklets at T-Mobile Center (formerly Sprint Center)
in Kansas City on Friday. There was another leafleter whose approach to
passersby is to disparage what I do, telling them an assortment of animal
species that they can eat. He did the same thing there at WJ last year as
well. When I pointed out to him that I don’t disparage him, he replied by
saying that my literature is corrupt. One person, maybe 17, approached me to
say that while she may not agree with the literature, she really respects
what I’m doing. I thanked her. A pastor took ten booklets for his
congregation. A vegan woman declined my advice to supplement vitamin B12.
4. Tabling Opportunities
4/8/23 - Austin, Texas Vegfest Vegfest -
www.texasvegfest.com/2023event/
4/15/23 - San Diego Vegan Fest -
https://veganinsandiego.com/veganfest2023/
5/13-14/23 Vegfest-Seattle - WA
https://vegofwa.org/vegfest/vegfest-home/
5/18-20/23 New York Vegan Women Summit -
https://www.veganwomensummit.com/
5/21/23 New England. VegFest -
https://www.nevegfest.org/
6/4/23 VegFest Michigan -
https://vegmichigan.org/spring-vegfest-2023/
6/10/23 Chicago Vegandale -
https://www.vegandalefest.com/chicago/
6/10/23 Philadelphia Vegfest -
https://www.phillyvegfest.com/
8/26-27/23 Georgia Vegfest -
https://georgiavegfest.com/
9/23/23 Syracuse, NY -
https://vegancny.org/syracusevegfest
9/23-24/23 SoCal VegFest -
https://www.socalvegfest.org/
10/21/23 Vegas VegFest -
https://www.vegasvegfest.com/
10/23/23 San Francisco World VegFest -https://www.sfvs.org/events-details/world-veg-fest
Contact the CVA for more information if you can help.
5. Narratives That Can Guide Us (continued)
We are conscious creatures, capable of experiencing a wide range of
sensory perceptions and subjective feelings. Where does consciousness come
from? How can inanimate atoms come to comprise a living being who has
conscious experience? This is a great mystery. How did anything come into
being? This, too, is a great mystery. People of a wide range of faiths
express certainty about answers to these questions. However, the existence
of multiple, conflicting hypothesis about which people express certainty
means that having certainty is not equivalent to having truth.
Do nonhumans have consciousness? The behavior of nonhumans of many species
provides very strong evidence of consciousness. We can’t be certain of
course, but for that matter we can’t be certain of the consciousness of any
human other than ourselves. Even a human who said, “I have conscious
experiences” could still be as unconscious as a computer with sophisticated
algorithms. The best we can do, and this goes for every perception and
conviction we might have, is to acknowledge that some hypotheses are
unreasonable, such as that the world does not resemble what we see, that
nonhuman mammals are automatons, or that the earth is flat.
Recognizing the fundamental mysteries related to existence, we might regard
the universe with awe and wonder. Yes, there is pain, suffering, death, but
there is also beauty and joy. All creatures, including ourselves, cling to
life and resist death. This might be merely a product of natural selection.
However, given that we are conscious creatures capable of deciding whether
to live or die, I think it reflects a reasonable conviction that life, for
the vast majority of us, is worth living. At the end of the day, our desire
to live reflects a faith that the creation of matter and consciousness has
been good. I will explore the implications of this faith next.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
6. From All-Creatures.Org Ministry
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March 15, 2023
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