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

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lege can confuse and sicken our entire population, especially those who
are most vulnerable and uninformed. There are well-documented connections,
for example, between the deterioration of our food supply and certain
newly invented pathologies like attention deficit disorder. 6
We must explore these connections further and discuss them, and
also take a hard look at our own abuse of privilege. As a culture, we regularly
fail to make the connections between the suffering directly
imposed on others and our privileged status. Those others may be fishes,
chickens, pigs, or slaves on chocolate plantations. By refusing to dominate
animals, we make the essential connections and open inner doorways
to understanding and deconstructing the abuse of privilege in our
lives. Justice, equality, veganism, freedom, spiritual evolution, and universal
compassion are inextricably connected.
As long as we dominate others, we will be dominated. Even those at
the top of pyramid, the rich white men who have the most privilege, are
ironically enslaved. Planting seeds of fear and domination, they cannot
reap inner peace, joy, love, and happiness. The misery, drug addiction,
suicide, and insanity rampant among the wealthiest families illustrate
the obvious and inescapable truth that we are all related, and spiritual
health, our source of happiness, requires us to live this truth in our daily
lives. As we bless others, we are blessed, and seeing beings rather than
things, our own being is liberated and enriched.
The Last Days of Eating Animals
Is there adequate time for us as a human family to make the transition
to compassionate vegan living? It’s a matter of education and reaching
critical mass. Every one of us has an essential part to play in this greatest
of all tasks. The resistance from the dominant culture is understandably
intense and manifests in a seemingly endless profusion of
ways. Besides the ubiquity of the practice of eating enslaved animals,
and all the media and cultural support that inevitably accrues to such
a universal practice, and the justifications obediently fabricated by the
religious and scientific institutions of our culture, there are predictable
attempts to use governmental and legal means to protect the animal
foods complex from any questioning. Many states have already passed