Ringling Bros. Circus Protest

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus came to Birmingham this week and we handed out about 1,000 leaflets and protested at 8 out of the 10 shows. I've had the privilege of spending the last 5 days with an incredible group of compassionate people and have made some wonderful new friends.

Overall the week went great. We've opened some people's eyes to the abuse and exploitation and have changed people's minds about the use of animals in the circus. We had a lot of negative responses and ignorant comments, but the good outweighed the bad.

Thank you to everyone that participated! We couldn't have done it without you!

AlabamaVeg

My new site for vegan and vegetarian Alabamians and also for those interested in transitioning to a compassionate lifestyle.

AlabamaVeg.ning.com

Peta's Animal Liberation Project

This project is amazing and horribly saddening. It really puts it into perspective though. It also gives me hope that one day people will see the abuse, exploitation and misuse of animals to be equal to human suffering.

Here's the link to the project:
http://www.peta2.com/alp/

Photos from the project (warning they are graphic):

Homemade Christmas Presents

My family and I were busy making Christmas presents for the rest of our family. Here's what we came up with. We made 5 sets of everything below.

We used recycled jars and filled them with dehydrated organic herbs, fruit and vegetables from our garden, the market and a local farm

Made these cutting boards out of a cedar that fell by our house


Homemade vegan purple sweet potato butter, pickled beets, and sauerkraut

Low-fat, whole food, vegan recipe book

Reusable grocery bag and produce bag made out of recycled fabric

mystic fog

woke up to this today

fall photos

Fruitarian Birthday Cakes

Yummm. My birthday cake

and Joshs