World Vegan Day: Nov. 1 (COMICS)

"The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion" - the Buddha (Mahayana quote)

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World Vegan Day celebrating cruelty free foods

But what about all the junk food favorites we Americans have come to love? Now made vegan

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Vegan is not the only choice. I'm a fruitarian.

The vegan (plant-based) way of life is getting trendy and super popular in American society. It's a compassionate way of life full of savory flavor.

It can now be practiced easily and, above all, with kindness toward all animals. Reducing their suffering and saving our shared environment is the goal. Save the world! Save the humans! How? Save the animals.

Where does flavor come from?

It’s for our own food -- with strength, longevity, beauty, all the things we want that we have been tricked into thinking comes from corralling and slaughtering animals (or paying someone to torment and kill them for us in our name). Look at our shoes and clothing.

The best choice for the world? Even rural areas now get a range of cruelty-free options. They're available in supermarkets and growing numbers of outlets.

Isn't it hard going vegan?

It's about as easy as running into water.

Vegan Day fun project: making edible cherries

Vegan Fest is now an annual event in U.S.

Veganism and vegetarianism are advancing with athletes, bodybuilders, runners and winners across fields. The number of hotels and restaurants that focus on cruelty-free foods are increasing enormously. There are now almost always options on the menu.

Long ago vegans (who avoid consuming any animal products), sustained purely on vegetable nutrition, thought it could not last. Surely it must only be temporary, something for Hollywood stars who want to stay pretty and thin. It's a social trend, Vegans have proved different.

Paradoxically, going vegan GETS one more food, sourcing from the world's cuisines.

Some of us do it for spirituality and ethics. All of us do it for better flavor (Meetup.com).

Everything humans need for perfect health is available from the plant, mushroom, and mineral kingdoms.

What can farms do better to make more money?

Animal protection is environmental protection. Farms need to change: an end to monocropping, poisoning the soil, forgetting the old ways (sometimes called permaculture), trashing the land as if it were a corporate for-profit free for all.

Vegan humans want to save all animals, not just the charismatic megafauna. Maybe every organism has some miracle to contribute to the ecosystem. No ecosystem is yet fully understood. When we call something "bad," it's only because we have not looked at the big picture, the whole.

Vegan documentary: Miss Liberty

Everything green, flowery, fragrant and pretty above ground -- the trees, greens, and lifeforms running around -- depend completely on what's below the ground.

What's down there? All the creepy crawlies, the fungus, the poop, the bacteria, the creatures that breakdown leaves and make nutritious soil. In every glowing garden bed of flowers, good fertilizer.

What is the function of conscious life upon the land? Ask the dryads and forest spirits (bhumi devas). They know far better than we down, our third eyes blind and many of us never even suspecting we could know. Mother Nature tells us in other ways, but we won't believe what we cannot yet see.

Vegans taste better (*nudge-nudge*).

Vegetarians have always existed. Vegans were here in the beginning, in the Agganna Sutta (A Buddhist Genesis) and a little Sumerian Akkadian Jewish Christian "myth" called The Garden of Eden. Every human was vegan then and no one dreamed of killing to eat.

The way to peace and a pollution-free world is to get back to that native paradise. That could start today with World Vegan Day so we can have enough to feed a hungry planet.

World Vegan Day

Sorry, vegetarians. For some of us, our genes ORDER us to kill to eat blood-soaked tendons.

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How can I get a Vegan Starter Kit?

WORLD VEGAN DAY originated in England in 1994, when vegan animal rights activist Louise Wallis was looking for a suitable setting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Vegan Society.

As president of the organization, her aim was to emphasize the carry on the vegan association and draw attention to the fact that the word "vegan" (like vegetarian) do not come from the word "vegetable" but from the Latin word vegetus, which means life and growth. More: vegan-day.org

VEGAN COMICS (Bizarro)

• Dan Piraro "Bizarro" (bizarrocomic.blogspot.com); Vegan Day Founder and Pres. Louise Wallis (vegan-day.org/en); compiled, edited, and enhanced by Team Veggie (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly