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[franklanguage]

How do you graciously return a gift from Heifer International? It seems one of my well-meaning clients will be giving her corporate gifts from them, and if so I may be a recipient.

Considering that the gift is given in your name to someone else, it's especially tricky. I certainly don't want a cow slaughtered in my name—although they also do goats, sheep, and bees.

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Re: Now I'm wondering...

[dagda-ollathir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it’s pretty possible… there are some sustainable eco-communities with vegans who maintain their own mini farms… it’s really easy to set up diff. plants to keep the soil healthy without using animal poop for fertilizer.
We’re not wild animals, and we can survive being vegan, so we should stay vegan.

I don’t consider it a luxury- the diet of most impoverished countries are largely vegan (I remember reading Wangari Mathai’s autobio, and she mentioned how the only meat her family would ever eat was chicken, but her mother never wanted to (they had to cook chicken when she wasn’t at home, because her mom did not want animals killed for food). & if you look at their health (before other social forces stepped in to mess with the food supply), they’re really healthy off a largely plant based diets. & considering in most 3rd world countries, meat is the luxury item in their diet…