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

health
of arteries, 98–99
and dairy, 123–124
effects of animal-derived food on, 74–76
and fat, 76, 78–79
food-borne illnesses, 81, 102
responsibility for, 197
and vegetarian diets, 71
viewed in terms of genetics, 196–197
See also disease
health, spiritual, 240
Heifer Project, 279
Heinberg, Richard, 188
herbivores, humans as, 67–70
herding culture
abuse of children, 282
and belief in evil, 163–164
and boys, 177, 238–239
deification of masculine, 161–162
discomfort with introspection, 241
guilt in, 163–164
indoctrination into, 53
legitimization of by reductionist science, 155–
156, 157
legitimization of domination of animals, 201
obsolescence of, 236
origins of, 18
and reductionism, 153, 154
religion's reflection of trauma of, 164
repression of desire to protect vulnerable by,
271
repression of early Christian teachings by, 161
sacrifice in, 162
shamanism as product of, 234
spread of, 267, 278
subversion in, 56, 86
suppression of compassion in, 41
and supremacy of humans, 23
threat of intuition to, 227
veganism's renunciation of, 28
violence in, 21–22
work in, 177
work of, 179
See also commodification of animals;
domination mentality
hero's journey, 55
Hitler, Adolf, 177
Holy Grail, 132
Holy Spirit, 131–132
Holy Wisdom. See Sophia
home, leaving, 54–55, 271
Hopkins, Thomas, 105
hormones, 80–81, 112, 124, 136
hot water spray, 83
human beings
control of, 158–159
creation of privilege, 285
dissatisfaction with work, 179
domination of, 177–178
as economic units, 153
as herbivores, 67–70
as mystery, 14
physiology of, 67–69, 203–204
population explosion of, 184, 187
as predators, 203–206, 228, 288
as spiritual beings, 70
toxins in, 97–98
view of selves as superior to animals, 285
Humane Slaughter Act, 172
hunter-gatherers, 205
Hyland, J. R., 162
Iceland, 104
IGF-1, 124
"I-It" sense of self, 12–13, 26
immune system, 73
imperative, vegan, 236–237
impotence, 45, 75
imprisonment, 46
incarceration rate, 296n15
indifference, 272
indoctrination, 51–54
industry
control of research, 207–208
grip on government, 194–195
profitability of animal-derived food consumption
to, 193
industry, animal food. See animal agriculture; dairy
industry
industry, dairy. See dairy industry
industry, fishing. See factory fishing
industry, medical. See medical industry
inheritance of food choices
indoctrination as infants, 51–54
and social pressure, 56–59
inner freedom, 291
inner peace, 232, 291
inner silence, 229
inspection, meat, 82–84
instinct, 239
intelligence
and connectedness, 35, 38
denial of in animals, 40
destruction of, 37–39
diversity of, 40
effects of animal-derived food on, 75
of fish, 106–107
forsaking of, 11–12
and fulfillment of purpose, 36–37
as species-specific, 39–41
systems theory, 34–35
and veganism, 264–265