The Sept.-Oct. Peaceable Table is now online

[Gracia Fay Ellwood]

In this issue you will find:

• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom shows two photos of a Bangladeshi boy rescuing a tiny fawn from a flood that was over his head in places.
• "Original Sin--Against Animals?" the Editor's Corner Essay, deals with three forms of original sin, one of which is against animals.
• One of the Unset Gems, a line by Erasmus sometimes quoted by Carl Jung, is "Bidden or unbidden, God is here." The Disney company was planning to make a movie entitled Aloha Rodeo, celebrating the participation of three Hawaiian cowboys in a Wyoming rodeo in 1908. Thanks to strong protests by the SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) organization and other activists, it was cancelled.
• Quaker suffragist Alice Paul, a major leader of the women's rights movement in the US, became a vegetarian shortly after the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was passed in 1920, thanks to her and others' leadership. She then proposed and worked toward the Equal Rights Amendment, which now, more than one hundred years later, has yet to pass!
• The Book Review features How to Speak Chicken by Melissa Caughey. It describes her experience of keeping backyard chickens, and what she learned in the process--a strong sympathy for the birds, understanding of many of their means of communication, and ability to use it. It doesn't deal directly with eating chickens or eggs, but leaves the reader quite unable to do so.
• The Recipe selection, for a delicious vegan chocolate cake, is sure to lead to a hit for every vegan cook who occasionally indulges in sweet treats.
• Some readers may recognize the Poem "Departmental" by Robert Frost, also taken from an earlier issue. It is one of the most delightful and skillful poems I have ever read.

To read (or read in) this issue, go to http://vegetarianfriends.net/issue167.html.

Toward the Peaceable Kingdom,

Gracia Fay Ellwood, Editor

"You must not stand idly by while your neighbor [human or not] bleeds."--Lev. 19:16