A man was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset.
As he walked along he began to see another man in the distance.

As he grew nearer he noticed that the local native kept
leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out into
the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the
ocean.

As our friend approached even closer he noticed that the man
was picking up starfish that had washed up onto the beach, and
one at a time, he was throwing them back into the ocean. . .

The first man was puzzled. He approached the man and said,
"Good Evening Friend, I was wondering what are you doing?" And
he replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean.
You see, it's low tide right now and all these starfish have
been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into
the sea, they will die from the lack of oxygen."

"I understand" my friend replied "but there must be
thousands of starfish on this beach and you couldn't possibly
get to all of them. They're are simply to many and don't you
realize that this is happening on hundreds of beaches up and
down this coast . . . can't you see that that you can't
possibly make a difference. . . . The local native smiled.. .
bent down . . . picked up yet another starfish . . . and as he
threw it back out into the sea, he replied, "It made a
difference to that one!"

You may feel like you cannot make a difference in the world
today, but you CAN make a difference in one life at a time.

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food;
therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life
merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. -Leo
Tolstoy
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