Valerie McGowan(Hunter):
CLASS OF 1982
North Hollywood High SchoolClass of 1982
North hollywood, CA
Naperville Central High SchoolClass of 1982
Naperville, IL
Lincoln Junior High SchoolClass of 1978
Naperville, IL
Valerie's Story
Valerie is from Los Angeles, California. She is married with Marc McGowan. Her schools include North Hollywood High School, Lincoln Junior High School. She later attended Institute for Integrative Nutrition, SUNY Purchase, Vanguard University of Southern California (Psychology), Marinello School of Beauty. She works(ed) at Humboldt Vegetarian Society.
Valerie's interests include Wii Sports, Home education, Raw Foods, Tha Vegan Dread "All Natural Pro Bodybuilder", Lolo Jones, Ernestine Shepherd-World's Oldest Female Body Builder. Music she likes includes Lisa Stansfield, A-ha, Spandau Ballet (Official). Books she likes include Presumed Incompetent, Being Biracial, Lonnie Frisbee: The Authorized Documentary. Movies she likes include American Promise, "The Black Line" profile of the African-American Women-Part 3, A Place At The Table. TV shows she likes include LUTHER, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Anderson Cooper 360.
One of Valerie's favorite quotes is:""I decided early to give my life to somthing eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow; but to God who is the same yesterday,today and forever."
-Martin Luther King
The Lord is a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. Psalm 9:9 (NLT)
"True greatness is determined by how many you serve, not by how many serve you.."
"Let me suggest that if you don't want to know where something comes from, maybe you shouldn't be putting it in your mouth." Howard Lyman, "No More Bull."
"Love without truth is too soft and truth without love is too harsh."
"If you worry, you didn't pray. If you prayed, don't worry."
"And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor political, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"People like to hear good news about their bad habits"
-Dr. John McDougall
“God is interested in Creation. He does not despise it. There is no reason whatsoever, and it is absolutely false Biblically, for the Christian to have a Platonic view of nature. What God has made, I who also am a creature, must not despise.”
- Francis Schaeffer. Pollution and the Death of Man
"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense." -
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every generation needs a new revolution."
-Thomas Jefferson
"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson
"God's original plan was to hang out in a garden with some naked vegetarians."
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"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world."
-Francis Schaeffer
"If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but when a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people."
-Ruth Harrison - Author of Animal Machines
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"What's shaky is claiming a pro-life ethic that treats all other living creatures as objects and commodities... or a non-violence equality ethic that treats unborn children with less dignity or consideration than oysters or clams."
-Catherine McLaughlin
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
- Abraham Lincoln
" I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs."
-Dean Ornish, MD
“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.”
-Cesar Chavez
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it" - Bruce Friedrich
"A righteous man regards the life of his animals." Proverbs 12:10
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to [him or her]: “My appetite is more important than your suffering? ”
-Moby
"How many times have I heard people declare that vegans have an agenda. “It’s fine if they want to eat that way, but don’t tell me how to eat. Don’t impose your opinions on me.” And yet, the companies who have the most to gain are telling them how to eat all the time. We have been conditioned to believe that to consume meat, dairy, and eggs is to take a neutral position but to be vegan is to have an agenda."
-Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of Compassionate Cooks
“If you are what you should be, you will set the world ablaze.”
-St Catherine of Siena
"Unless someone like YOU
Cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better, it's not."
- Taken from The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
"Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.
" -Matthew Scully (Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy)
"When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?"
-Matthew Scully (Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy)
"Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and like the most conservative person among liberals.” (Laura Martin, Enough Light)".
More about Valerie:"I'm a wife and mom of 5 great kids. I have a passion for God and a passion for all things health, nutrition, veganism and social justice.
I am also the director for the Humboldt Vegetarian Society.".
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