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

The Domination of the Feminine / 129
ing the amount of space a free-range hen must have, so though their
confinement may be less extreme than the usual battery cages, they are
nevertheless typically crammed together in enormous, stinking sheds
where they never see the light of day. 33
The Web of Connections
Female cows and chickens are ruthlessly dominated to provide products
that are vital and healthy for their offspring, community, and species but
cause disease, pollution, hunger, and suffering when consumed by
humans. When we steal their milk and eggs and kill their children, we
set up the conditions for the same to happen to us. The fates of cow
mothers and human mothers, cow babies and human babies, ultimately
run parallel. If we allow corporations to steal, use, and kill cow and
chicken babies, it will happen to our babies also. In fact, it is already
happening.
The negative effects of consuming dairy products and eggs on individual
health are linked to negative consequences for our world ecosystems
and our culture. Everything is connected; the consumption of dairy
products and eggs is linked with: allergies, skin disorders, cancer, heart
disease, strokes, diabetes, and a laundry list of other ailments; the arsenal
of products and procedures marketed by the medical industry to
combat these unnecessary ailments (all of which are major sources of
pollution and disempowerment); the enormous profits accumulated by
the agribusiness, chemical, pharmaceutical, and banking industries from
our domination of female animals; the social inequality and injustice
that this promotes, giving rise to elitism and further conflict; the environmental
and human health effects of agricultural runoff, which is poisoning
rivers, killing fish, contributing to human cancer, and causing red
tides that inflict respiratory disease; the lives lost in wars caused by spiraling
demand for petroleum and by desperation, as water rights go to
rich agribusiness dairy and chicken operations funded by U.S. banks in
Third World countries while poor people face chronic thirst and contaminated
water. . . .
The web of connections surrounding our consumption of dairy
products and eggs is vast and includes all beings. When we feed on other