Respect All Beings - Respect Our Planet by FemVegArt
I recently was interviewed by D The Vegan Feminist and I'm proud to share the link to the interview on her blog HERE.
We discussed my art project FemVegArt, why veganism is a feminist issue, female storytelling, animal liberation, and more. It was such fun and I feel like there aren't enough opportunities for feminist vegans to meet like-minded people - so I created a Vegan Feminist Penpal group on FB, which you can find HERE.
An excerpt from the interview:
Laura, you have said that it’s very important that children learn compassion, both for themselves and others. Why and how is it important?
I think Charlie Chaplin said it perfectly, when he said: “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”
Without compassion, we aren’t human. Or mammal, for that matter. A society needs compassion, because otherwise there’s abuse of those who are most vulnerable. A few will get fat on the oppression of many. So you see, that’s very much what has always been lacking in human society. It’s what’s destroying the world. Moreover, a person cannot ever be happy or content without compassion, because there can be no true connection to others.