Happy to be Healthy and Humane
Peace. Ahimsa. Namaste.
Welcome, readers, to the inaugural edition of The Healthy and Humane Observer. We are the newest member of the established, successful Observer family of publications. Look for our free editions at many of your favorite vendors, restaurants, libraries and various other locations throughout Northeast Ohio. Our web site is: www.healthyandhumaneobserver.com. Also visit and "like" our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/HealthyAndHumaneObserver?ref=ts&fref=ts.
The Healthy and Humane Observer will be dedicated to promoting a healthier, more compassionate way of living through our diet and lifestyle choices. We will also be promoting the meaning of the true vegan: one who rejects the notion of animals as a commodity, embraces compassion and peace in the treatment of all beings, and chooses to live a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle.
We will provide information relevant to our way of living. We will promote restaurants, groups, businesses, and activities that reflect our lifestyles - places and events we feel our readers would like to patronize.
Along with promoting a healthier more humane lifestyle, we are very pleased that we will be able to act as a forum for our many, dedicated, hardworking animal advocacy groups here in Cleveland and the surrounding areas. There are many individuals who have combined their knowledge and skills to form some very influential advocacy groups for our education.
We will also assist the many rescue, foster, shelter, and placement organizations that are located throughout Northeast Ohio. The dedicated volunteers of these groups, daily, save the lives of dozens of homeless, abused and neglected animals, and are in desperate need of support and assistance.
Like all Observer projects, The Healthy and Humane Observer belongs to us, to our community of readers. It is our paper, dedicated to our shared interests. All readers are encouraged to submit their articles, notices, information, questions, issues, etc., to healthyandhumaneobserver@gmail.com.
This paper is free, and will remain free, but in order to publish we do need partnership. Please contact us to advertise your group, product or business. Without partners we can not continue to "get the word out" on the topics so "near and dear" to us all.
I would personally like to thank all of my amazing friends who so conscientiously submitted material. Thank you, also, to Rachelle Farren for always having her camera, and for being so generous with photos! We would like to express our sympathy to Annette Fisher and family over their recent loss, and to also thank Annette for suggesting we "link" with one of the country's best sanctuaries - Happy Trails! Deep and sincere appreciation is extended to Harold Brown, Ruby Roth, Lee Hall, Gail Eisnitz, Jonathan Balcombe, and Philip McCluskey for their wonderful submissions. I am extremely moved by their decision to support this project, and more than honored to include their work in this first edition of Healthy and Humane.
Peace,
Gia Campola