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The Compassion Experiment (Day 5)

The Compassion Experiment: is a blog about converting to a more compassionate lifestyle. Well, five days in, and we are already starting to see the effect of living a more compassionate lifestyle, on our wallets. The groceries we bought this week came in well under our old pre-compassionate budget. Not that we were buying gutted pigs by the dozen, of course, but the financial implications of living a compassionate lifestyle can actually be a benefit too, just don't shop at Whole Foods. We were sent this email from our good friend Cindy, from CARE: Hi Beth, Hi Mike, Just wanted to let you know the blog is a wonderful idea and forum to help further a more conscientious and ethical way of life. The horrific and systematic exploitation of animals in the meat and ancillary industries, and the environmental degradation resulting from these industries, are cloaked behind the "tacit" understanding that this is socially acceptable. Our society embraces and condones this daily and