My 6th birthday in Germany. The tradition of blowing out candles stems from ancient Greece, where people believed candle smoke carried prayers to the gods. Over time, this evolved in medieval Germany into the practice of wishing while blowing out the candles called Kinderfeste.
๐จ FINALLY, after years of pressure, the RSPCA is strongly backing a full ban on non-stun slaughter! ๐จ
They've launched an open letter to Defra demanding the UK government ends this cruel practice for good, no exemptions, no excuses.
Slaughter without effective pre-stunning causes unnecessary pain and suffering to millions of animals every year.
The RSPCA: all animals deserve to be stunned first so they don't feel the cut.
Sign their open letter right now and add your voice:
https://t.co/H9alk3WaO3
Ban Halal and all non-stun slaughter.
Animals shouldn't suffer for any reason in 2026.
If you care about real animal welfare, sign, repost! ๐ฅ๐๐๐ท
So it is with the gods too: from my every experience of their power time after time I am certain that they exist, and I revere them.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations (Book 12, 28)
To those who ask, 'Where then have you seen the gods? What conviction of their existence leads you to this worship of them?', I reply first that they are in fact visible to our eyes. Secondly, and notwithstanding, that I have not seen my own soul either, and yet I honour it.