Vegan artist hopes these paintings will put you off eating meat (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Vegan artist hopes these paintings will put you off eating meat
3:00pm Thursday 21st March 2013 in News By Emma Joseph
Two of Kathy Livick's paintings
AN ARTIST has produced a selection of paintings in support of National Veggie Month.
Kathy Livick, a vegan herself, has called the works Songs From A Slaughterhouse and hopes their sale will raise awareness of the suffering of animals killed for food.
The six canvases, painted in acrylic, depict a hen and her chicks, a pig, calf, goat, lamb and horse in dreamlike landscapes – a far cry from the surroundings of other farmed animals Each image has a line from a famous song incorporated to illustrate the distance between the paradise shown and the reality of their lives – including “Then like my dreams, they fade and die”, and “Don’t let the sun go down on me”.
Kathy, who lives in Canford Magna, is the face behind FeralArtWorks and is also running art therapy sessions for people with a variety of addictions.
The 57-year-old left her full-time career as a rehabilitation therapist in 2007 and now regularly exhibits at Castlepoint Shopping Park.
She said: “Back in the days when I used to eat meat, I always knew at some level that something was wrong.
“Recently, however, I began to look at how we treat animals and, as the knowledge and the horrors unfolded, I became fixated on making things better for them.
“So apart from writing to my MP and the government, I joined Animal Aid and became a vegan. And I started to paint.”
Kathy’s paintings can be viewed at feralartworks.co.uk National Veggie Month runs throughout March.
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Edna Cheese (Mrs)
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3:18pm Thu 21 Mar 13
MikeGB
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3:32pm Thu 21 Mar 13
MikeGB
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Old Colonial
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uvox44
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4:57pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Butterfly Collector
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uvox44
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Biancalouise22
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Adrian XX
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uvox44
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6:04pm Thu 21 Mar 13
williwood
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6:06pm Thu 21 Mar 13
MikeGB
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6:19pm Thu 21 Mar 13
uvox44 wrote:I'm afraid I speak from a lifetime's experience in animal welfare. My concern has always been for the animal, not the farmer, and I stand by my comments. There is a lot of propaganda out there, well-meaning but often counter-productive. You are entitled to your view of course, but I have over 40 years experience. Most farmers care about their stock in the same way pet owners care for their pets.
hmmm mike you do live in a rose tinted world - apart from organic and small specialist farmers most want to get as quick a "return" from their "investment" as possible-more, fatter, quicker is what intensive farming is all about and the problems of this approach are well documented including the threat to human health from the routine addition of anti-biotics to animals feed to counteract the illnesses they suffer in insanitary, crowded conditions. No great surprise then that people that eat this meat get a nice unnecessary dose of anti-biotics too, nicely building up their resistance to the effectiveness of these drugs making any infections harder to treat. This very issue was recently likened to be as serious a threat to humankind as terrorism by the Chief Medical Officer- but hey a bit of animal suffering and a major threat to human health is a small price to pay for all that "tasty" food , isn't it? The ironic thing is not only is meat cruel, bad for you and bad for the planet it's not even a cheap food source!
uvox44
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6:38pm Thu 21 Mar 13
MikeGB
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6:47pm Thu 21 Mar 13
uvox44 wrote:I agree anti-biotics have been over-used. I'm not prepared to discuss my career here, I don't see why you should ask me to reveal my identity or details about my career. You obviously feel strongly about converting people to vegetarianism, I have simply been concerned about the welfare of those animals that have been allowed to live. Would you deprive a loved-one of anti-biotics for health reasons? I am not a farmer and I only endorse meat eating because I believe it is a matter of individual choice.
mikeGB - what was/is your experience ? I am not saying that any individual farmer is intentionally cruel , though a few may be, but that the whole system of intensive farming is INHERENTLY cruel. It is a bit like justifying the slave trade by saying i have worked with slaves and they are well treated - but this still makes them slaves nonetheless! I notice you make no comment about the anti-biotic issue.
Letcommonsenseprevail
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6:57pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Letcommonsenseprevail
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6:58pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Pablo23 wrote:After you've made your comment of course, Pablo!
You might as well just turn comments off now
uvox44
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7:02pm Thu 21 Mar 13
I feel as you are using your experience as a factor to boost the credibilty of your position i am quite entitled to ask about it! Not to do so would be very odd. I presume there is a valid reason for being so cagey which is fair enough , in this case best not mention it at all!
I feel strongly about compassion full stop- both to people and animals. I don't need to eat animals , it's healthier and kinder not to, so i don't.
Not sure why you asked me that question about depriving my loved one of anti-biotics? Surely the use of anti-biotics in meat is more likely to cause my loved one (if they ate meat) to have a problem ?
MikeGB
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7:16pm Thu 21 Mar 13
uvox44 wrote:Stop being aggressive please. Read what I said, accept I am an animal lover and have spent my life trying to make their lives more comfortable. Your aggression is typical of many, it makes it more difficult to reason with people. You comments about aligning my career with endorsing slavery are offensive and ill-founded. Others will conclude as a result that all your views are based on similar foundations. My last word, you and I are a lot closer on animal welfare than you have assumed, but as often happens you habe jumped to conclusions and alienated me, for one, who might have been willing to help.
mikeGB you were the one who mentioned your career in the first place!
I feel as you are using your experience as a factor to boost the credibilty of your position i am quite entitled to ask about it! Not to do so would be very odd. I presume there is a valid reason for being so cagey which is fair enough , in this case best not mention it at all!
I feel strongly about compassion full stop- both to people and animals. I don't need to eat animals , it's healthier and kinder not to, so i don't.
Not sure why you asked me that question about depriving my loved one of anti-biotics? Surely the use of anti-biotics in meat is more likely to cause my loved one (if they ate meat) to have a problem ?
MikeGB
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uvox44
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7:34pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Bluestew
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beaelliott
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9:40pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Trouble is for most of you you just don't realize how ignorant your lame excuses and "anti-vegan" stance appears to be.
Food For Thought
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Pablo23
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9:43pm Thu 21 Mar 13
LetcommonsenseprevaiI'm a vegetarian and I like art.
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Pablo23 wrote:After you've made your comment of course, Pablo!
You might as well just turn comments off now
I don't tell that to anyone that knows me though because I know the type of reaction it provokes.
I'm not against us or other animals eating animals because thats natural, its evolution and we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that, but we do need to keep a check on our behaviour as the current dominant species.
Compassion is a good thing I think.
mysticalshoelace
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11:41pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Except most pet owners don't eat their pets.
mysticalshoelace
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11:42pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Most farmers care about their stock in the same way pet owners care for their pets...
Except most pet owners don't eat their pets.
l'anglais
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7:57am Fri 22 Mar 13
Many thanks to the artist for this inspiration, I was just going to have pasta and tomato sauce, now tucking in to a 3 month old lamb.
uvox44
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veganforlife
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11:24am Fri 22 Mar 13
We call our selves a nation of “animal lovers” but certainly that’s not the case, we criticise countries like China and Switzerland for eating cats and dogs, and yet we still eat other animals just because externally they look different from cats and dogs.
Also let’s not forget that we do not need to consume any animal products to survive, in fact animal products are proving to be the cause of ill health. Humans don’t need to consume the milk or any dairy products from any animals. As adults we lack the enzyme lactase which is used to brake down the lactose found in milk and dairy products. Only children need their mothers milk. Also although milk does contain calcium its consumption makes our bodies too acidic to nullify this effect our bodies use the calcium from our bones to neutralize the acid and can in fact actually lead to weaker bones.
There is a constant holocaust for all those poor innocent sentient beings as we speak! All for the sake of feeding a false believe that humans need to consume animals to survive and for good health, when on the contrary, a diet containing animals products brings us nothing but illnesses such as cancer diabetes and so on, there is a lot of information about this issue on line and even on Youtube.
Also there is lot of information and video evidence about many undercover investigations showing what really goes on behind the scenes in the UK showing slaughter houses workers kicking, punching and stabbing the animals and burning them with cigarettes just for fun, before they butcher them while the animals still alive! There is not much difference in "welfare farms”.
Instead of criticising Kathy Livick, please look for facts and information about veganism, and watch educational and factual documentary films which are even available on Youtube such as Earthlings, Meat The Truth, Gary Yourofsky's Best Speech, Dr Neal Barnard MD and many more. People should know the truth and make informed choices about what kind of life style they want to make. People should make the connection and go vegan, not only for the sake of the poor suffering animals but for the sake or our planet and of course for the sake of people's health.
veganforlife
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12:08pm Fri 22 Mar 13
Edna Cheese (Mrs) wrote:Well done Kathy Livick I am so glad to know that we have a local vegan artist!! What a beautiful paintings of loving animals that usually are out of our sight. All animals are sentient beings they may look different on the outside but on the inside they’re the same, some of them such as pigs are even more intelligent than our dogs and cats, they all feel pain and fear, joy or happiness, and even have different personalities just like us. Let’s no forget that after all we are also animals.
Mmmmm. Spring lamb. Shanks are my favourite.
We call our selves a nation of “animal lovers” but certainly that’s not the case, we criticise countries like China and Switzerland for eating cats and dogs, and yet we still eat other animals just because externally they look different from cats and dogs.
Also let’s not forget that we do not need to consume any animal products to survive, in fact animal products are proving to be the cause of ill health. Humans don’t need to consume the milk or dairy products from any animals. As adults we lack the enzyme lactase which is used to brake down the lactose found in milk and dairy products. Only children need their mothers milk. Also although milk does contain calcium its consumption makes our bodies too acidic to nullify this effect our bodies use the calcium from our bones to neutralize the acid and can in fact actually lead to weaker bones.
There is a constant holocaust for all those poor innocent sentient beings as we speak! All for the sake of feeding a false believe that humans need to consume animals to survive and for good health, when on the contrary, a diet containing animals products brings us nothing but illnesses such as cancer diabetes and so on, there is a lot of information about this issue on line and even on Youtube.
Also there is lot of information and video evidence about many undercover investigations showing what really goes on behind the scenes in the UK showing slaughter houses workers kicking, punching and stabbing the animals and burning them with cigarettes just for fun, before they butcher them while the animals still alive! There is not much difference in "welfare farms”.
Instead of criticising Kathy Livick, please look for facts and information about veganism, and watch educational and factual documentary films which are even available on Youtube such as Earthlings, Meat The Truth, Gary Yourofsky's Best Speech, Dr Neal Barnard MD and many more. People should know the truth and make informed choices about what kind of life style they want to make. People should make the connection and go vegan, not only for the sake of the poor suffering animals but for the sake or our planet and of course for the sake of people's health.
mooninpisces
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12:11pm Fri 22 Mar 13
veganforlife wrote:Good on Kathy Livick for highlighting the difference between the fantasy and the reality of conditions for farm animals.
Well done Kathy Livick I am so glad to know that we have a local vegan artist!! What a beautiful paintings of loving animals that usually are out of our sight. All animals are sentient beings they may look different on the outside but on the inside they’re the same, some of them such as pigs are even more intelligent than our dogs and cats, they all feel pain and fear, joy or happiness, and even have different personalities just like us. Let’s no forget that after we are also animals.
We call our selves a nation of “animal lovers” but certainly that’s not the case, we criticise countries like China and Switzerland for eating cats and dogs, and yet we still eat other animals just because externally they look different from cats and dogs.
Also let’s not forget that we do not need to consume any animal products to survive, in fact animal products are proving to be the cause of ill health. Humans don’t need to consume the milk or any dairy products from any animals. As adults we lack the enzyme lactase which is used to brake down the lactose found in milk and dairy products. Only children need their mothers milk. Also although milk does contain calcium its consumption makes our bodies too acidic to nullify this effect our bodies use the calcium from our bones to neutralize the acid and can in fact actually lead to weaker bones.
There is a constant holocaust for all those poor innocent sentient beings as we speak! All for the sake of feeding a false believe that humans need to consume animals to survive and for good health, when on the contrary, a diet containing animals products brings us nothing but illnesses such as cancer diabetes and so on, there is a lot of information about this issue on line and even on Youtube.
Also there is lot of information and video evidence about many undercover investigations showing what really goes on behind the scenes in the UK showing slaughter houses workers kicking, punching and stabbing the animals and burning them with cigarettes just for fun, before they butcher them while the animals still alive! There is not much difference in "welfare farms”.
Instead of criticising Kathy Livick, please look for facts and information about veganism, and watch educational and factual documentary films which are even available on Youtube such as Earthlings, Meat The Truth, Gary Yourofsky's Best Speech, Dr Neal Barnard MD and many more. People should know the truth and make informed choices about what kind of life style they want to make. People should make the connection and go vegan, not only for the sake of the poor suffering animals but for the sake or our planet and of course for the sake of people's health.
We need to understand that meat-eating is, for us, a cultural choice which reflects values and beliefs which, when brought out into the open, are distinctly questionnable. See Melanie Joy's excellent YouTube videos on 'Why we love dogs, eat pigs, and wear cows' and on the belief system she calls 'Carnism'.
veganforlife
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