Last month at the Animal Rights Conference in Los Angeles, we caught up with Author Will Tuttle (The World Peace Diet), who spoke with us about his work and his feelings about Earthlings.

 

"What Earthlingsdoes, the great gift it gives our culture, is that it makes us aware of what's behind the curtain of our denial. It may be painful, we may be resistant, we may not want to see it, we don’t want to know, but once we do, then we have the power to transform our consciousness. We can begin to behave in new ways, go to a higher level where we’re not actually causing that kind of misery.”

Dr. Tuttle has also just written a fascinating piece on the cultural history of the movement for animal rights on the blog Crazy Sexy Life. Read part one here and part two here. 

"It’s important to understand that owning animals as property to be killed and eaten is the hidden and defining core of our culture, and that all of us were, and are, routinely indoctrinated into the mentality of domination, exclusion, reductionism, elitism, and disconnectedness required by the food practices of this culture."

Check out the video (and listen for how he’s shown Earthlings in Lawrence, Kansas):

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Recently we caught up with PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. We asked her to speak about Earthlings and share her advice on a vegan lifestyle from her new book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble.

Here's what she had to say: 

 

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Our dear friend Kathy Freston is a health and wellness expert and a New York Times best-selling author. Her most well known book, Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness, explains that our lives are interconnected with all other life on the planet, and having “spiritual integrity” requires conscious eating in the form of a plant-based diet. Hermost recent book The Quantum Wellness Cleanse helps readers embrace a cruelty-free lifestyle kick-started by a 21-day cleanse. Kathy was applauded by vegans and animal lovers for helping Oprah Winfrey experiment with a vegan diet last year.

"You cannot explain to someone what an animal goes through in the way that Earthlings shows it. All you have to do is look and you'll see. It's a visceral experience. It's not pretty; it's terrible, actually, but it's something that just rips people open, and they go straightaway to a more conscious path."

Visit Kathy Freston's site here. 

 

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