The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

The Domination of the Feminine / 115
dairy products into adolescence and adulthood compounds and reinforces
the tragedy.
At a deeper level, forcing young children to eat dairy products
brings into their impressionable minds and bodies a most unfortunate
and terrible vibrational energy of the profound sadness, grief, panic,
suffering, and fear that mother cows always experience on dairies,
organic or not. The whole dairy business is founded upon stealing:
forcibly stealing calves from their mothers and mother’s milk from
calves. We have become desensitized to just how cruel this actually is,
and how it underlies, perhaps in large measure, our culture’s basic
repression, confinement, and exploitation of the female and the feminine
principle.
The mothers of all mammals feel terrible emotional stress if their
newborn offspring are endangered and will do everything in their power
to protect them. Human mothers know how deep this feeling is, and
how devastating it would be to have their children taken from them.
Mother love will often give its own life for its child. We can see this deep
maternal caring in dogs, bears, elephants, monkeys, deer, lions, whales:
in all mammals it is a defining and obvious characteristic of mothers.
For scientists, agribusinessmen, or theologians to deny this, or discount
its importance, only shows how reduced their intelligence and sensitivity
have become through their cultural woundedness and consequent
skill in disconnecting.
Of all the mammals, it is the cow whose maternal instinct has been
perhaps the most obvious and celebrated: her gentle and patient eyes,
her natural mothering way with her calf, licking and feeding and watching
over her baby, and her loud lamenting when the calf is taken from
her. She cannot fight the hands that steal her offspring away, or speak
to us in human words, telling us how deeply it hurts her. But it is obvious
to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. For us to ignore her suffering,
and the suffering of her calf—hundreds, thousands, millions of
times over—is to ignore and deny our own decency. There is a deep and
terrible transgression in this, the unnatural coveting of the calf’s mother’s
milk several thousand years ago, and the building of a whole culture
around the stealing of milk, the killing of the mother and her children,