Food affecting relationships

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A change in consciousness seems to alter a number of things, to do with attitude, optimism, habits, etc, but specifically it alters our awareness of the nature of animal-beings. In that respect it predicts what could become a greater species of human.

Without animals having rights (and, they still being so routinely abused) humans remain animal-dependent, held like a baby to its umbilical cord. We won’t be able to separate until we move away from our primitive food habits of the old animal-dependency model. Without this happening a better type of human can never emerge.

Freed animals means freed humans, as well as a rescued planet. This is the ‘bigger picture’, and it represents the sort of world you and I might want to see growing.

Growth, whether it’s plant growth or the evolutionary growth of a whole species, is always fascinating. We are surely united by our common interest in growth. We need to see something building as much as we need air to breathe.

One big thing I see building is animal consciousness, I mean consciousness of them. It starts by empathising with them, to the point of avoiding hurting them, avoiding using them for food and moving on logically from there to eating solely from the plant kingdom. If we can make peace with our conscience over this we prevent our complicity with a great wrongdoing. Enough said!

Vegan diets are good for humans in many ways, for slimming, for aerobic activity, for long-living, for energy, for mental sharpness, but most importantly, of course, it’s good for us because it’s good for the animals. Fewer of them get hurt. If all this is so, (especially with plant-food energy and nutrition being second to none), why aren’t we all into it? The food itself (plant-based wholefoods) can be the most attractive aspect of being a vegan. We can eat as much as we like and it metabolises perfectly. But to hear the omnivores speak you’d think we were masochistic self-denialists.

Once you’re vegan and know what food you like, then food can be largely forgotten about, because the fundamental attraction in being vegan is the way it affects relationships. Food and lifestyle, once established, has a positive effect on relationships, whether with humans or animals. On the strength of that is the great incoming of motivational energy. All these separate developments make up the ‘bigger picture’. Eventually, even if it’s a long way off, the ‘bigger picture’ motivates relationships. This is the age where most of us are being tested by our relationships. If what we’re aiming at is something we can be proud of, then one positive relationship will translate to another; one of the most positive relationship changes would be how we regard enslaved animals and then our being plant-eating humans. And from this change we can see our world actually having a future, where not only are the animals freed but where human relationships are easier and more fulfilling due to our more advanced empathy for each other.