I have been looking for an avatar for our social media accounts. What suits? It needed to be an animal whose being we celebrate and protect.

KOE Quakers cow avatar
Caption: KOE Quakers cow avatar (credit)

I thought about how cows suffer. Their male babies killed immediately. Their female babies made into milking machines (and then ground into meat). Don’t kid yourself that the dairy industry is not the meat industry. If you are vegetarian, you are still killing.

A cow it will be!

May all beings know peace!

Aroha nui,

Tūruapō ❣

02 Aug 2025, 11.04 (GMT +13)

The Peaceable Kingdom

We are not of this world, but are redeemed out of it. Its ways, its customs, its worships, its weapons, we cannot follow. For we are come into the peaceable kingdom of Christ, where swords are beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks, and none shall hurt nor destroy. — George Fox, Epistle 203 (1659)