Greetings of love and gratitude from Judy Carman

Let’s Celebrate More Good Vegan News.  “A vegetarian world would be healthier, cooler, and richer” is the title of a March 21 Reuters.com article. The reporter announced that, “A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, is the first to estimate both the health and climate change impacts of a global move toward a more plant-based diet.”   Researchers from Oxford University studied how a vegan diet, a vegetarian diet, a “global guideline” diet with limits on red meat, and the standard diet, would impact health care costs, the environment, and longevity.  “Adopting a diet in line with the global guidelines could avoid 5.1 million deaths per year by 2050, while 8.1 million fewer people would die in a world of vegans…” they reported.  They also predicted, “Dietary shifts could produce savings of $700 billion to $1,000 billion per year on healthcare, unpaid care and lost working days, while the economic benefit of reduced greenhouse gas emissions could be as much as $570 billion…”

Prayers of Gratitude and Joy for Open Hearted Researchers and Reporters.  This week let us give thanks for this article and all the others that are continually pouring out in mainstream news to awaken people.  Although animal suffering is not mentioned, it is still a step toward motivating people to care about the environment and their own health.  Many people become vegan for such reasons and then find their hearts opening to animals. Because they are no longer causing them harm, it is as if they gain permission to then face the suffering of animals and feel a huge burden of guilt lifting.  As an action this week, we who are more than a thousand strong, can each share this with 100 people.  Just our small group can reach 100,000 people in one week. And as we share this, let us send it out with blessings from our hearts—blessings of courage to listen and question; blessings of love and empathy for all the living; blessings of joy in knowing the power each person has to make the world a kinder, more harmonious place.  And after we have shared our messages, let us spend some time each day this week picturing the receivers of this news nodding, thinking, opening to truth, and feeling our blessings.  And most of all let us be in awe and amazement that this ever-growing wave of vegan love and compassion is encircling the earth right now.   May all hearts be renewed and transformed into hearts of love and liberation for all beings. Our spirits greet the spirits of all people and know the truth.

As always, with tears of gratitude, I send my thanks to each of you, dear Prayer Circle members, for joining this circle of compassion and shining the Light of Truth for all to see, so that one day soon, all beings will live in peace together.

May compassion and love reign over all the earth for all beings everywhere. 
Thank you all for your devotion to truth, love, liberation and peace for all beings.
With Love, peace, and gratitude from Judy Carman, and greetings from Will, Madeleine, Tara and the Circle of Compassion team

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