Thank you for posting this, Elaine. I've been vegan for 20 years. While so many on the left are rightfully outraged by all the human deaths in Iraq and Palestine, where is the thought toward the billions of animals who are suffering and dying on factory farms and in laboratories at the same time that our human brothers and sisters are suffering at the hands of our government? When I go to peace marches and see activists munching down the corpses of animals, I know we have a long way to go. When one consumes violence, one becomes that violence.