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

chapter three
THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE
“It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence
of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been
intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.”
—Maimonides
“If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is
difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some builtin
mental disorder which drives him toward self-destruction.”
—Arthur Koestler
On the Taboo against Knowing Who You Eat
The suppression of awareness required by our universal practice of
commodifying, enslaving, and killing animals for food generates the
“built-in mental disorder” that drives us toward the destruction not
only of ourselves but of the other living creatures and systems of this
earth. Because this practice of exploiting and brutalizing animals for
food has come to be regarded as normal, natural, and unavoidable, it
has become invisible. Though it is fundamental, it continues to be virtually
ignored in the ongoing public discourse about why we have the
problems we have and how we can solve them. This lack of mindfulness
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