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July 1994
Letter from the Editor

By Martin Rowe

 


First of all, I’d like to thank those who picked up Satya, and have by doing so made another edition possible. Secondly, welcome to those who have picked up Satya for the first time. I think you’ll see that Satya fully confirms its stated goal of being a magazine for human as well as animal justice, for human health as well as planetary health.

Patrick Donnelly’s inspiring piece on the Whole Foods Project makes clear the pressing concern of supplying people (sick or not) with food that will not poison them or the land, give them life-threatening illness or transfer it to others. His words are a call for compassion and sustaining a proper relation to food - one based on a respect for source and for resources. Ken Baer is bringing his own vegetarianism to his political activism specifically to help people save the planet: it’s an urgent call we would do well to hear.

Antonia Gorman’s story of her dog Ginger is a remarkable testament to the lengths animals will go in their dedication to their human counterparts. Ginger’s love of her owner, however, is more than matched by her bravery and her resourcefulness, her intelligence and stamina. The skills Ginger employed were very much of her own kind (an extraordinary sense of smell, a brilliance in following tracks); and that is why the respect due to her should also be for her own kind. Ginger didn’t act like a human, she acted like the dog she is - that is why she deserves respect. Ginger’s story is a clarion call for humans to recognize that all animals in their own way have the sort of all-embracing fortitude and intelligence displayed by Ginger. If we see no evidence of it as yet, we should not assume its absence. If we do so, we could deny life to a creature as complex as Ginger.

More than anything, however, Antonia’s story - as well as the other pieces in Satya - offer us startling examples of the possibilities of connections between what we eat and who we are, what we eat and what we do, and who we share our lives with and what they can do for us.

Finally, this paper would be nothing without you, the reader and the writer. I want you to start and continue telling us your views and your stories, to lead towards a better and more compassionate world.

Enjoy!

 


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