The January Peaceable Table is now online

[Richard Ellwood]

Dear Friends of Animals,

We at The Peaceable Table wish you--and all beings--a free, happy, and
peaceful New Year.

About this January issue:

* In the Guest Editorial, Clark Tibbets recounts his experience of
finding that he did not need to kill so-called pests in his organic
garden and compost heap--they had already worked things out.

* The NewsNotes include an account of a forthcoming project in
Nicaragua in which discarded children and abandoned horses will
minister to one another.

* In one of the Gems, Thomas Kelley reflects that "No one can look on
God and live . . . . live in harm toward God's least
creatures . . . ."

* There is a Film Review of the Disney movie Enchanted, which gives
us something new in helpful animals for the heroine.

* Wait till you try the Carrot-Tropical-Fruit Cake featured in our
Recipe section.

* "My Pilgrimage" stars "Tammy," who tells how her young children
took the lead in the family's move to cruelty-free eating.

* This month's Pioneer is philosopher/activist Tom Regan, who has had
a leading role in bringing the animal defense movement to life in the
U.S.

* In his poem "The Wild Duck," John Masefield conveys to the reader a
sense of what wildness is, and the longing for it in the souls of
enslaved farm ducks.

We welcome responses from readers, especially for the "My Pilgrimage"
column.

Every blessing in 2008,

Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor


. . . eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can
niver make out the rights on. And all as we've got to do is to
trusten, Master Marner -- to do the right thing as fur as we know, and
to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and
rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what
we can know . . .
-- (Dolly Winthrop) George Eliot