8/4/08
EXCERPT: People everywhere are making choices more connected with their values. We are simplifying our lives, buying less, and living more, because we know the earth supplies enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed.
HM ANALYSIS: The themes of this production no doubt would have been of great interest to Donald Watson, the founder of the vegan movement in the 1940's, who believed that the adoption of a vegan diet was a moral imperative.
Veganism was born in the cataclysmic aftermath of World War II, a time, like this one, when many people wondered if humanity had the wisdom necessary to to avoid self-annihilation. As if in answer to the overwhelming dilemmas posed by a world war and the frightful power of the atomic bomb, Watson and his contemporaries offered a humble path to peace that began with each person's ability to refuse to participate in the exploitation and killing of others, be they human or non-human animals.
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