How to avoid mental health issues – part two

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By depending on animals and taking our dependency to the point where we have enslaved them, we have lost the very strength we wanted to attain in the first place. I’d suggest that this has become nothing more or less than a mental health issue. We humans have become so ‘me’-oriented that we can no longer consider ‘the other’. We want to be mentally stable, we want to be able to feel sympathy, even empathy, but we are no longer make the connection between our own mental stability and the safety of certain animals. To bolster this illusion, that we need animal-based foods, we have had to create a belief that ‘animal’ food strengthens our brains and bodies. Science has shown that this isn’t true but that science has to be rejected, in order that we can maintain our ‘strong body and brain’.

The central belief, that mental health can look after itself as long as the mind and body is kept strong, has led us to the worship of the brain and the physique, so fast-thinking goes hand in hand with our admiration of physically powerful individuals. And these heroes of our civilisation have to ignore the gentler and simpler side themselves, and in consequence they are usually no strangers to violence. They don’t go around bashing people up, it’s more subtle in that they are Society’s leaders and by taking an active part in their violent society, give their seal of approval to it. They would soon lose their position in Society if they sympathised with vegan principle. 

Vegans are suggesting that anyone can test their own mental health by challenging their own dependency on animal products. It sounds a simple thing to do, on the face of it, it seems to make a lot of sense, since the dangers of this sort of food have been well enough chronicled for the last few decades, but we are not dealing with good sense. We’re really dealing with addiction, two addictions in fact. The first is a belief that one’s mental stability will be maintained in spite of one’s addiction to animal foods, the second is that we can retain our sanity despite making unethical choices (in what we choose to buy).