Name:
Judy Carman
Diet Type:
vegan
Gender:
female
Location:
Kansas, USA
Hobbies:
Hiking, kayaking, photography, singing to cows, carrying snails and turtles off of roads, and other fun stuff
Religious Views:
Unaffiliated
Judy Carman
"Author of Peace to All Beings and The Missing Peace"
Description:
Besides raising a family and now loving being a grandmother, I have spent most of my life in various activist groups--peace, human rights, animal rights, etc., because I sensed (as I believe we all do somewhere deep inside) that human beings do not have to be destructive and violent to the earth, the animals, and to each other; that somehow we could "get back to the garden," so to speak and live in harmony with all life. It is as if we all have a dim memory of such a way of living. Yet I often hear the sad comment that there will always be war, slavery, killing, and meat eating. So why try?
But there is something in my heart and in most VegSource readers, I believe, that compels us to show the world, each in out own way, that we can live in peace with all beings. I believe we can become Homo Ahimsa--the Kindhuman--or, put differently, we can reveal our true nature and transform fear into love.
I have founded and co-founded a number of different activist groups, became vegetarian in the '70's and vegan once I worked through some cultural programming (Dad was a big game hunter, uncles ran a stockyard--you get the picture). Currently I live on a 10 acre wildlife sanctuary in Kansas. We run our vehicles on used vegetable oil and use solar heat when the sun shines.
I co-founded a local animal rights group, Animal Outreach of Kansas. We have vegan potlucks monthly and feed about 500 people a free vegan picnic lunch on Earth Day. Our big project currently is aimed at getting two elephants, Tembo and Sunda, out of the Topeka, KS, zoo and into The Elephant Sanctuary.
I have written two books on animal rights: Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken's Soul and The Missing Peace: The Hidden Power of Our Kinship with Animals (my dear co-author of Missing Peace is Tina Volpe.) Both books offer a vision for a truly peaceful world and many activists have found them uplifting and inspiring. They are also good tools for spreading the message, especially with people of faith and activists for other causes.
I co-founded with Madeleine and Will Tuttle, the Worldwide Prayer Circle for Animals website and also have two blogs: Peace to All Beings and Free Tembo and Sunda.
I would love to write for VegSource. It is a beautiful place to feel the strength of our community, to be inspired, and to hold the vision of a world at peace for all beings.
Judy Carman, M.A.
Recent Comments
Time to Wake Up
Great article, Will. Many great points made which are crucial for us all to understand if our and other species are to survive and thrive. One of the most important points, I believe, is your explanation that what is happening to us in the way of diseases and environmental devastation mirrors what we do to the animals. What we do comes back to us ten-fold at least. The unimaginable cruelty perpetrated on the animals of this world by human beings has been coming back to us for at least the last 10 thousand years and time is now running out.
A recent news story covered a family that saved a humpback whale in the Sea of Cortez who was caught in a net. That kindness and the compassion of so many other human beings is reverberating across the planet. Acts of love such as that are far more powerful than the acts of terror against the trillions of animals Will mentions. Nevertheless, we need so many more acts of love, and that can happen when enough of us wake up to who we really are. Please forward Will's essay widely. Let's do this.
Peace to all beings, Judy Carman
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Thank you, John, for this great tribute to a real health pioneer who paved the way, in many ways for the message of a healthy, vegan, nonviolent, joyful lifestyle.
Peace to you and to all beings,
Judy Carman