Having a good day

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In this age of obesity,  the vegan diet is a perfect slimming diet.  What happens in sport (how runners run faster,  how bodies work better) has been known for a long time;  we know a body responds to optimum treatment,  which implies getting rid of the popular poison-foods which make the body sluggish.  If you aren’t an Olympic athlete or not particularly worried about your appearance and don’t care two hoots about health,  you might be stuck in your ways and proud of it;  you’ll probably enjoy indulging in all sorts of rubbish food.  But if you’re a compassionate, sensitive, body-conscious vegan there are various reasons why you wouldn’t do any of that. For instance,  being vegan means you no longer go into the cake shop.  You’d walk on by.  You have reason never to eat crap,  albeit yummy crap.

Every great ambition a human might have can be compromised by bad habits and addictions.  In this case,  the daily compromise concerns our daily food intake, and I’m sure that most damage comes from the animal content.  It’s likely that this ‘nonsensical component’ of our daily diet will slowly,  and in many cases painfully,  kill us, or at least frustrate the ambitions we   had when younger and more idealistic.

Imagine having a good day,  then walking straight into the abattoir,  buying a dead animal,  consuming it,  and then feeling terrible.  That’s effectively what most people are doing every day of their lives.

Why do we do this to ourselves after having an otherwise good day?