Phil Wollen from Melbourne has received the Order of Australia for the Queen's Birthday Honours (see below). He is a vegan, and also a subscriber to Vegan Voice. He works tirelessly for both humans and nonhumans. He pops up when you least expect him and helps out those in need.
The Citation for the honour reads "For service to international humanitarian relief, and to animal welfare, particularly through the establishment of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust". In a press statement he made today:
Philip spoke of the plight of 1.2 billion sentient animals, tortured and killed each week for food, fad, fashion or "sport". He went on :
"In their capacity to suffer, a dog is a pig is a bear is a boy. Isaac Singer, the Jewish Nobel Prize winner noted that, for the animal kingdom, the Holocaust never ended. If slaughterhouses had glass walls no decent person would ever eat another animal - and be able to look in the mirror without shame.
Factory animal production is killing our land, our waterways, the environment and ourselves. The eminent historian Barbara Tuchmann was right. The definition of folly is when we act against our own best interests.
Our own needs aside, inflicting horrific cruelty on innocent beings is the trait of ignoble minds. Thomas Jefferson said he trembled for our species when he reflected that God is just.
Doing all we can to end these atrocities is the only way any decent person can respectfully honour their memory. Greater sorrow had no souls than these, who laid down their lives for those who could have been friends."
This is his website: http://www.thewinsomeconstancekindnesstrust.com/
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