New "Friends, not Food" Design

Who doesn't love a cute cartoon pig, cow and chicken?

Recently, this old vegan adage scrolled through my feed: "A non-vegan sees a photograph of a pig and thinks bacon. A vegan sees a photo of bacon and thinks that's a pig." It's so true, and the message resonates with me every time I see it. In fact, it prompted me to create a new design in my Vegan Strong Zazzle shop that includes the cutest cartoon faces of a pig, a cow and a chicken accompanied by the words "Friends, not Food."

What's that? You'd like to see a few products with the design on it? Well okay then. Here you go...     

Friends, not Food Dinner Plate

A dinner plate is a provocative way to communicate the idea that farm animals should be free to live; that they are not a commodity to be inhumanely raised for your consumption. Adding this to your dining table is about as in your face as you can get. 

Friends, not Food Jigsaw Puzzle

 This colorful jigsaw puzzle would make a wonderful gift for a young, budding vegetarian or vegan. The cute, friendly animal faces are easy for young people opting for a plant-based diet. I chose green for the background but you change the color to whatever you like.

The ubiquitous t-shirt

You know I couldn't do a new design without putting it on a t-shirt. Here it is on a simple black tee but there are loads of t-shirt colors and styles for you to choose from.

Friends, not Food iPhone Case

The design is available on all types of cellphone cases; I'm showing it on an iPhone 6 + here.

In all cases (if I've done this correctly), the links below the product should take you right to them. If you'd like to check out my other cruelty-free designs then please pop over to the Vegan Strong Zazzle Shop.


And if you have a special cause or need for a design, I'd be honored to help you with it. Let's do everything we can to speak for those who cannot.

Peace.

Stop Animal Experimentation

Do yourself a favor and NEVER Google animal experimentation. And God forbid, if you accidentally hit the images tab, click off as quickly as possible. Or don't. If you've got a strong will and staunch conviction, let the images compel you to take action. 

I'll save you from the images on this blog; I'm doing that for you as well as for me. Instead, I'll leave you with some thought-provoking thoughts on animal experimentation.  

"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." ~Charles R. Magel

 "The cruel experimenter cannot be allowed to have it both ways. He cannot, in the same breath, defend the scientific validity of vivisection on the grounds of the physical similarities between man and the other animals, and then defend the morality of vivisection on the grounds that men and animals are physically different. The only logical alternatives for him are to admit he is either pre-Darwinian or immoral." ~Richard Ryder

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham

Peace.

We Can't Plead Ignorance

"We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better.

We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. 
 

Photo used with permission (c) Jo-Anne McArthur

We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, 'What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?' "
~ Jonathan Safran Foer