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My take on California’s Prop 2 election vote

Linda FortuneAuthor of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline

My take on California’s Prop 2 election vote.

Welcome,

Before I continue on with my blog concerning the most touching moment of the animal communication workshop for me, I want to extend my joy and give a hardy salute to the people of California, The Humane Society of the United States, Oprah Winfrey, and all the people who worked on passing Proposition 2. This vote supports treating animals with respect and care by giving them sufficient room to move naturally in their environments as they prepare to offer their bodies for our nourishment. Treating animals with respect is fostered by animal communicators who know so well the feelings and spiritual nature of animals.

Ultimately, this proposition will stop the worst abuses of factory farms in California as a start. It will stop the confinement of farm animals to limited spaces for the duration of their lives. Let me quote directly from Wayne Pacelle’s blog on November 5, 2008:

“Giving farm animals a little extra room to stretch their limbs, to move like animals should, is a small matter for us humans. But it’s a very big thing for a hen who would otherwise be confined with a half-dozen other birds in a cage about as big as a filing cabinet for her whole life. It’s a really big thing for a sow who would otherwise be stuck in a crate so small she can’t turn around. It’s a way big thing for a calf who would spend life chained inside a miserably tiny crate.

Prop 2 will phase out those inexcusable confinement systems and usher in a new era. No state in the U.S. and no Agribusiness titan anywhere in the nation can overlook this mandate: people do not want their farm animals treated with wanton cruelty.”

I, too, feel very deeply about how animals are treated in whatever setting they live. Having become acutely aware of animal feelings, intelligence, and spiritual natures as I was writing Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline, I have come to an increased deep sense of responsibility, that we humans have, in the compassionate care of all our world’s animals. The passage of Prop 2 in California is a major step in the recognition of this responsibility. It is a major step in our own developing consciousness.

I totally concur with Wayne Pacelle when he states “As a result, you’ve brought forth a new, more compassionate age.” I say, let us all continue this work of compassionate care of all animals and learn to see the magnificence of all animals as we learn to live more ‘in the present’ with them. This will not only enrich their lives but our own as well.

Next entry: The most touching moment of the workshop for me.

With blessings, Linda