This a great post about those “heroes” who love animals.
St. Francis of Assisi, the “patron saint” of animals. Painting by Giotto di Bondone (c.1266-1337) / Louvre, Paris, France / The Bridgeman Art Library
I have heroes that inspire me for all my passions: writing, film, baseball, among other things. Raymond Carver wrote “Cathedral,” Sam Peckinpah directed The Wild Bunch, and David Ortiz won more playoff games for the Boston Red Sox than I can count.
But none of those heroes, that I’m aware of, have actually saved lives.
My vegetarian and vegan heroes do save lives. On average, one hundred lives are saved per year by each person who makes the choice to not eat animals.
So I want to honor them by listing some of them here. These are the people that inspire me. These people remind me how important my initial decision to become a vegetarian (now a vegan) was, and how this choice goes beyond…
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Love St. Francis:)
I have a statue of him in the garden, to protect all non human visitors, and one in my house. Good man. 🙂
Yes, indeed!