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

268 / the world peace diet
less dedicated people for centuries, often in the face of great adversity.
The future generations of both humans and animals are depending on
us to do what we can to nurture the seeds of nonviolence, intelligence,
and compassion in our shared cultural garden so that they can inherit
an earth that is healthy and a way of living that is based on freedom and
caring. We can each be a field of freedom, and by the force of our example
and intention we make it easier for those around us to do the same.
The field will grow, spreading through our culture as a benevolent revolution.
While the journey I’ve been relating here is obviously unique, as all
our individual journeys are, I believe the underlying pattern is universal.
We have all been born into a herding culture that commodifies animals,
and we have all been affected by the cruelty, violence, and predatory
competitiveness that our meals require and that our culture embodies.
We’ve also been taught to be loyal to our culture and relatively uncritical
of it, to disconnect from the monumental horror we needlessly perpetuate,
and to be oblivious to the disastrous effects this has on every
level of our shared and private lives. We are all presented with the same
evidence and hear the same call for mercy and justice.
Within us lie seeds of awakening and compassion that may be
already sprouting. Our individual journeys of transformation and spiritual
evolution call us to question who and what we’ve been told we and
others are, to discover and cultivate the seeds of insight and clarity within
us, and to realize the connections we’ve been taught to ignore. As we
do this and as our web of journeys interweaves within our culture,
cross-fertilizing and planting seeds, we can continue the transformation
that is now well underway, and transcend the obsolete old paradigm
that generates cycles of violence. When we uproot exclusion and domination
from our plates, seeds of compassion can finally freely blossom,
and this process depends primarily on us watering the seeds and fully
contributing our unique journey. We depend on each other, and as we
free the beings we call animals, we will regain our freedom. Loving
them, we will learn to love each other and be fully loved.