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

chapter fifteen
LIVING THE REVOLUTION
“My aim is not modest. I see that nothing short of the transformation of
humanity is necessary at this point in time.”
—Jill Purce
“Every day forty thousand children die in the world for lack of food. We
who overeat in the West, who are feeding grains to animals to make
meat, are eating the flesh of these children.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh 1
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the
fore only when its recipient has no power. Humanity’s true moral test, its
fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its
mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental
debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
—Milan Kundera, author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Holograph
The ripples that radiate from our choices to eat foods from animal
sources are incredibly far-reaching and complex. They extend deeply
into our essential orientation and belief system, and into our relation-
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