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This article was originally published in my column The Vegan Examiner of New Orleans One of the most oft used quotes from Mahatma Gandhi is "You must be the change you want to see in the world." It is a simple prescription, small enough to fit on bumper stickers and refrigerator magnets. Usually it is presented next to a little icon of Gandhi's bespectacled head. Funny how Capitalism has a way of repackaging the truth until it becomes invisible. It is up to us to rescue these words and to remind ourselves or their deep practicality. Everyone has run into the angry vegan. The one who ruins...


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this poem is my gift to you in this prelude to the new swine flu we all feared, but who really knew? who knew these sweet and noble beings? live confined in their own shit and vomit on concrete beds beneath artificial light? thank god they can not think and feel like we do. well who really knew? it did not say so on the pinkish styrofoam or even on the news. if i said i knew you would hang me from the highest tree for lying to your children. if i said i knew you would put your hands around my throat and choke the words inside of me. in this time we have to dance...


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