Plant-based diet

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This crude, human-advantaged world we live in now wasn’t what Mum and Dad expected for their family - surely the world had learnt its lesson ... about violence and war?
But it was never going to be that simple. The war on animals was continuing, and about to get worse. ‘That’ war, that bomb, that cage - I suppose each had to come into being so humans could see reason to find an alternative ... and the lesson couldn’t have been clearer - the war - a true performance of violence. The war and the bomb were supposed to revolt us so much that we’d find a better way to live together ... that means human to human but extending no further. The Insecure Human - the dread of hunger shared with the same dread all animals have. It’s always been feeding by violence and humans have taken that to diabolical levels. We’ve always got what we got by violence. We’ve never tried it another way.
We kill animals and eat them - the animals are always here with us to remind us ‘we gotta drop dat violence’.
Here are the animals. They’re here, they’re food. Humans still think it’s proper food! But instinctively we suspect it isn’t, and that somehow we might one day not have to ‘go there’ anymore. But this is the big one. This is something most people will say they’re “not ready for”!
And you can see why. Peoples’ attention is directed elsewhere, towards other matters, in fact ANY matter that will divert them from the collective bete-noire … the matter of animal slavery.
The whole world is currently focused on climate change. It’s made us sit up and take notice, but not much more. We still believe in serendipity and again, it seems, we talk a lot but don’t do much. And that’s not surprising since most buggers have actually GIVEN UP ... self-pityingly “lacking the motivation and energy” ... “Concerning this ‘way-out’ (by ‘Going Vegan’) - we just won’t get it together. Imagine the inconvenience! Our own lifestyles would be screwed up overnight, and as for our personal relationships. And then, what about our own habits-of-addiction? Arrgh! We: selfish: act for the greater good: ugh! ... and one more thing while we’re at it. One is especially reluctant to ‘make a start’ when one’s mates won’t. We’d rather say, “You first, me next”! So we wait.
In fact we wait for nice vegan food to come down in price so it’s cheap enough to consider buying. We wait. I could write a whole poem about waiting, but we must hurry on ...
We shouldn’t waste any energy on making judgements about people who are too stupid to go vegan. Be done with it. There’s no serious judgement here about the eating of animals, it’s just that we are experiencing (all the time) a ‘time glitch’ in the common psyche - it disappears as a Scotch mist rises from the river in the morning. So, deal, no more poems!! ... and getting back to the practical, the useful, the panacea.
One has to ask why we didn’t find a creative way to supply food without causing chaos and misery to so many sentient beings? You don’t have to be Einstein to spot reluctance ... in humans ... to drop the macho-dominator thing. Be strong: be right: be a man: be human - we still haven’t got over that one.
Vegans can do one thing better than omnivores, they can look at the faces of the animals. We can look them in the eye. If you take up a plant-based diet the experience is so fuckin lovely that you almost scream at the lost time spent dithering. It’s easy (I don’t believe that for a start!), it’s straight forward and ... admittedly something that gets more important as you grow older ... this damned vegan stuff fixes up most health problems ... but that’s quite incidental.