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

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the other shore. If we are eating animal foods, however, there is an
invisible barrier hindering our progress because the disconnectedness
and unconscious cruelty required to do so will keep us confined to the
shallows of our potential.
As our culture moves toward a vegan orientation, we will see enormous
healing and liberating forces unleashed. Indeed, imagining our
culture as a vegan culture is truly imagining an almost completely different
culture. This ever-present potential beckons to us. Every one of
us, as representatives of our culture, is an essential part of this fundamental
transformation and awakening. It is exciting to contemplate
educational, economic, governmental, religious, medical, and other
institutions based on honoring and protecting the rights and interests of
both animals and humans. When as a culture we stop commodifying
creatures, a new world of kindness, fairness, cooperation, peace, and
freedom will naturally unfold in human relations as well.
Changing our individual daily food choices to reflect a consciousness
of mercy will transform our lives and move our culture in a positive
direction far more than any other change we can contemplate.
Following right behind this change in our individual food choices is the
necessity of practicing mindfulness and nonviolence in all our relations
in order to bring our mind and heart into alignment with the truth of
our interconnectedness, and to allow us to enter the present moment
more deeply and experience directly the mystery, joy, and beauty of
being.