The Compassion Experiment (Day 4)
The Compassion Experiment: is a blog about converting to a more compassionate lifestyle.
When it comes to promoting the compassionate lifestyle, there are two schools of thought, one being to shame people into living more compassionately, the other is to give people options, and help guide them into a more humane way of life.
We don't believe that showing people gruesome pictures of animals being slaughtered is the right way to go about it. That's not to say that we don't support the groups who do this, many of these groups are the people working the hardest for animals, animal safety and promoting compassionate living.
We just have our own way of doing things.
As promised, we tried a great compassion recipe last night, and it turned out to be quite tasty. We modified the recipe and made it our own. We were worried that it would be flat, and hard and tasteless. We were way off, and highly recommend it.
Here it is:
Banana Blueberry Compassion Bread
You will need:
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup of blueberries, (fresh or frozen)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 cup of oil
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup wheat germ
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
Optional ingredients:
1/2 cup chopped nuts.
1/4 cup of coconut sprinkled on top.
Preheat oven to 375.
Smash the banana's in a bowl with a fork. Add the lemon juice, brown sugar, oil and blueberries.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, wheat germ, salt, baking soda and powder.
Add the dry mix to the wet mix and mix together gently until just mixed. Spoon into an oiled pan, and bake for 40-50 minutes.
This weekend we've got a ton of new recipes to try, and are really looking forward to the eating of said recipes.
Please keep sending in your recipes, we really appreciate it.
Animals saved today: 1
Animals saved to date: 9
When it comes to promoting the compassionate lifestyle, there are two schools of thought, one being to shame people into living more compassionately, the other is to give people options, and help guide them into a more humane way of life.
We don't believe that showing people gruesome pictures of animals being slaughtered is the right way to go about it. That's not to say that we don't support the groups who do this, many of these groups are the people working the hardest for animals, animal safety and promoting compassionate living.
We just have our own way of doing things.
As promised, we tried a great compassion recipe last night, and it turned out to be quite tasty. We modified the recipe and made it our own. We were worried that it would be flat, and hard and tasteless. We were way off, and highly recommend it.
Here it is:
Banana Blueberry Compassion Bread
You will need:
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup of blueberries, (fresh or frozen)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 cup of oil
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup wheat germ
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
Optional ingredients:
1/2 cup chopped nuts.
1/4 cup of coconut sprinkled on top.
Preheat oven to 375.
Smash the banana's in a bowl with a fork. Add the lemon juice, brown sugar, oil and blueberries.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour, wheat germ, salt, baking soda and powder.
Add the dry mix to the wet mix and mix together gently until just mixed. Spoon into an oiled pan, and bake for 40-50 minutes.
This weekend we've got a ton of new recipes to try, and are really looking forward to the eating of said recipes.
Please keep sending in your recipes, we really appreciate it.
Animals saved today: 1
Animals saved to date: 9
Sent to us via email, from a friend:
ReplyDeleteHi 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 regrettably we are far from embracing kinder and less self-serving ideologies. Over time hopefully we can help erode the old ways of thinking.