The last word on animal products

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I think vegans are the type of people who, first and foremost, realise that in life we won’t get ‘owt’ for ‘nowt’; we have to work at climbing the hill before we can enjoy the downhill ride. For that to make sense we have to realise first that we’ve spent our lives being duped by our ‘providers’.

It’s not very wise to trust what the ‘providers’ tell us or trust the products they sell. If we examine our own decisions, when it comes to the buying of animal-based foods, it’s clear that we are heavily directed by every authority, from commercial advertisers and nutritionists to parents and school teachers, all of whom have a lot to answer for.

Those who are most involved, and who profit from the success of the Animal Industries, guide so many of our daily shopping decisions. What we do, what we buy and then eat, is not necessarily in our own best interests, but it’s in theirs.

What we are never told is that animal products inevitably let us down in the long run. They please us, fill us, make us feel strong and energetic, then WHAM!, we’re bloated and fatigued. After a full meat meal you don’t feel energised, you feel sleepy. And over many years of ingesting the stuff, once they accumulate in the body they have the opposite effect to what they seem to promise, and it’s this ‘betraying’ effect of our food that is either realised too late or never realised at all.

So, to be ahead of the game we need to remember the history of how today’s foods became popular. ‘Green’ foods were gathered but weren’t originally as nutritious or plentiful as they are today. They weren’t seen to be powerful enough to keep pace with the advanced human brain and human development. So, humans started to supplement their plant-food with hunted meat. The omnivorous diet appeared to benefit mind and body. It eventually occurred to the ‘expanded mind’ that it would be more convenient to ‘domesticate’ animals rather than chase about hunting them. By capturing, corralling and breeding captive animals, animal-based food became far more available and was indulged in to the point where the body began to react badly to it. And now, today, we have a huge demand for hospital beds, for all the ill patients suffering from diet-related illnesses. This was followed, or I should say is yet to be followed, by a return to plant-based foods. But now we don’t need to go our gathering wild plants, we can grown powerfully nutritious and varied foods from cultivated crops.

The ‘idea’ of veganism coincided with the development of many new and delicious plant-based foods which, today, are so available and inexpensive.

In its plant-based form, food is better suited to the growth of stronger (subtler) human bodies. Along the way plant food has become famous not just for its nutrient values but for its capacity to release the human from dependency on animals. And relieves us from complicity with animal-enslavement. As the foods developed (alongside this ‘new ethic’ of compassion for animals) so they came to include a wide range of cereals, nuts, pulses, vegetables and fruits. And from them a vast range of foods have been produced to replace the existing wide range of animal-based food products. Plant foods are lighter and more energy producing. And what is so great about them is that none of them are linked in any way with animal cruelty.