Brummet's Conscious Blog

 *Today's article comes to us from: Jill Jepson - author of over seventy articles and three books, including Writing as a Sacred Path: A Practical Guide to Writing with Passion and Purpose. She edits The Whirlwind Review , an online literary journal focusing on writing and spirituality ( www.writingthewhirlwind.net ). Her Writing as a Sacred Path Blog can be read at writingasasacredpath.blogspot.com . Animal Advocacy as a Writer What does being a vegetarian and an animal advocate this have to do with writing? My answer: Everything.  I’m not saying that every writer needs to start writing about animal rights, or that they should all become vegetarians. I’m just saying that, to be writers, we must have an awareness of animal suffering in the way that we must have an awareness of human suffering. It comes with the job, if you’re going to do the job right. Why do animals matter? And, more to the point of this blog, why do animals matter to...