Pan's Children
I am the Horned One,
The god of love's hunger
It's told that I am the Mother's son,
The god of linger .....
The big, bright sun.
I am the god of warmth where there is none.
I love all of you.
Hurt and cold.
I will ignore few;
A protector of the weak, and bold.
I am the just god within
To the people of Pan's Grove Pan is the protector of the animals, and we love him and take the god seriously. We cannot kill things and expect him to shine upon us - he is our protector, but he is also theirs.
As far as killing for food, this is a very debatable subject. At this page we will express the alternatives to
Killing is not the answer in most magickal ceremonies. According to even Lavey in the Satanic Bible, sex creates much more energy or an energy thrust than killing can by far!
Wiccans also share the view that killing is senseless, because the At this site, we do not promote
killing in any form. You may have heard of pagans that kill, some do and some don't. The pagans at Pan's Grove do not kill as in sacrifice or torture animals for power or any other " perhaps-magickal " reason.
Animals can be spared regular cruelty inflicted upon them because of modern culture through your care. Slotter houses are now widespread through out the United States and the world. Many slotter houses are cramped and do not give the animals a life of happiness or air, much less basic needs like cleaned spaces or enough room to lay down. You can help the animals by buying meat labeled free range, which is meat typically from regular farms and other places where the animal had spent it's life in open space ( not cramped in a cage, or a small space, ) or simply do not buy meat! Some meat is an excellent source of protien, but only when cooked properly, and cooking means cancerous toxins, period. Some cooking delivers more toxins than other types of cooking. As if this wasn't enough, all benifits of meat can be found in non-flesh foods. So, some of us choose not to eat flesh. A popular misconception about meat is that it is the only or best source of Vitamin D- wrong! The Vitamin: B12 is a vitamin that is abundant only in meat, however, you can obtain vitamin B12 from dairy products. Or vitamins, of couse.
Compassionate living also includes the ability to see when an animal may suffer while alive to serve us things like - milk. There have been horror stories about dairy farms but this is not a problem .... you can boycott this suffering as well!
If you're in a small town, ask your grocer where he/she purchases his/her milk from. If you live in a city, you can look at the milk carton ... for BST or other cow-injected horomones. Some milk companies proudly claim that their milk is not from BST/other injected cows. Cows can be injected with BST/other horomones via shots, or they have been told to eat a block from time to time, which orally delivers the horomone into the cow's body. The horomones make a cow produce more milk - in an un natural and sometimes painful way.
