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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice” and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 9/24/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice” and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” live 9/24/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (Samsung S9 camera).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exude More in Black”, “Every Heartbeat”,“Entering the Lake of Fire”, “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, “Polymath in the Making”, “ Vacuum of Space”, and “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the cc&d October 2021 v314 issue/paperback book “Nihilism for Dummies” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Exude More in Black”, “Every Heartbeat”,“Entering the Lake of Fire”, “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, “Polymath in the Making”, “ Vacuum of Space”, and “Enticing Whirling Darkness” from the cc&d October 2021 v314 issue/paperback book “Nihilism for Dummies” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this live video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, and “Polymath in the Making” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Made the Choice”, “Noble Cause”, and “Polymath in the Making” from the Scars Publications 9-12/21 cc&d issue collection book “The World Outside” 2/2/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava flow filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Just Made the Choice Janet Kuypers 10/1/19, on and for World Vegetarian Day, the 1st day of World Vegetarian Awareness Month on Facebook and Twitter Just read an article in the Wall Street Journal today, on World Vegetarian Day, the first day of World Vegetarian Awareness Month, and the article explained that there was an excess of eggs produced this year. The article then explained that efforts to curb this excess egg production include, in part, sending birds to slaughter, to bolster prices. Anything to boost sales for the bottom line. Some may now wonder what the big fuss is all about, about eating plants versus enjoying a steak, pork chops, ribs, veal or even Thanksgiving turkey or Easter ham, or enjoying a Rueben on St. Patrick’s Day. That’s what we humans do. And you’re right, we’ve got the mandibles to prove it, especially when we were evolving to scavenge and hunt to survive. Since then we evolved, but nobody learns. We just kill. That solves everything. But that is the beauty of evolving, that is the beauty of no longer needing to hunt to survive. With our globalization and specialization of all our abilities and resources, we all no longer have to kill to survive. We don’t need that much protein on our sit-down lives, we don’t even have to kill one animal so we have enough food for our family for the winter, like our ancient ancestors. But what did we learn. We learned the beauty of Capitalism is that we can pay someone else to do the dirty work for us, while we sit in our office chairs with our big brains and think of how we’ve got it made. And we do, if we choose to eat meat with our oh-so-strong mandibles, and we pay someone else so we don’t have to get our hands dirty. But in this system, we do get blood on our hands. To feed more and more people with the cheapest product, companies have turned the farmhouse into a mass-marketing slaughterhouse, where mass-produced animals are too fat to mate, or even walk, and they contract diseases which transfer to humans, who think this is a great system for fast food, or else it’s the only system, not knowing the difference and just wanting to eat. People say they care, but nothing ever changes. I wonder if corporations not allowing people into their plants keeps the truth hidden from the masses. Because torture chamber or not, I once made the choice that, even though I could pay someone else to kill for me, I’d rather not be a part of that. Since then, I’ve visited India, not for the oppression of women but for the freedom of eating whatever I wanted without worrying if some living animal was killed for my next meal. Because... after you choose peace, the rest is easy. If your workday is bothering you, if the news of racial tensions, bombings and killings shatters your senses, then start with the choice for peace in your own meals. People get together and talk about peace among people, but they forget that people aren’t the only living creatures on the planet. Even the religious know plants were the only food in the Garden of Eden... And once you realize how to remove killing everywhere in your life, that is when you will finally truly feel at peace.

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