The July-August Peaceable Table is now online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

In this issue we feature the following:

• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom tells of the friendship between a retired Brazilian named Joao, and an oil-covered penguin he rescued. Joao cleaned him up and fed him until he was ready to be released back into the ocean, but "Din-Din" wouldn't go!  Read the story.
• The Editor's Corner Guest Essay is a review-article by Karen Davis of Voices for Animal Liberation, an anthology of accounts of how various activists awakened to the reality of human abuse of animals, especially farmed animals.  The stories are deeply moving.
• The rapid spread of Covid19 among workers in slaughterhells has awakened many to these and other dangers posed by our agribusiness system.  The NewsNote tells of Senate and Congressional proposals, by Cory Booker and Ro Khanna, intended to break up the monopolies of major slaughterhell systems.
• In a Letter, PT subscriber and author A.J. Morey describes how the review of Inside Hearts and Minds in the May-June PT brought to her mind the fact that, as with animals, times of stress bring out both selfish and heroic actions among humans.
• Friend Steve Willey, a leading light for the animal concern in the Sandpoint (Idaho) Meeting, authored our Review of Mama's Last Hug by primatologist Frans de Waal,  The book presents narratives of human-animal relationships and studies on primate consciousness, with extensive comparisons to human consciousness.
• Our Pioneer for this issue is Cleveland Amory, onetime author of books about Boston top-drawer society, who became animal activist extraordinaire, writing best-selling books, founding animal defense organizations and sanctuaries, and raising vast amounts of money to help out other animal groups.
• You are guaranteed to enjoy both making and eating the Quick Chocolate Cake in our Recipe section, reprinted with permission from The Peaceable Kitchen, a cookbook produced by Sandpoint Friends.  The mint frosting recipe is from the website of Two Sisters.
• Eugene Field's poem about the fight between the gingham dog and the calico cat is well-known as a piece of light-hearted nonsense for children.  But when seen as a commentary on how human beings post-Darwin tend to think about animals, it is rather disquieting. See the Poetry section.

To read or read in this issue, go to http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue162.html.

Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,
Gracia Fay Ellwood, Editor

"Don't stand idly by while your neighbor bleeds."--Lev. 19:16