Food

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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 about 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 particularly bothered about sport or even worried about your appearance or care two hoots about health you might indulge in all sorts of rubbish food. But if you are a compassionate, sensitive, body-conscious vegan there are various reasons why you wouldn’t go into the cake shop. You’d walk on by. You’d have reason to never eat the crap, albeit yummy crap.

Every great ambition a human might have can be compromised by bad habits and addictions. In this case the daily compromiser is with our daily food intake, and the damage comes mainly from its animal content. This ‘nonsensical component’ of our daily diet slowly, and in many cases painfully, kills us or at least frustrates the ambitions we might have had when younger and more idealistic.

Imagine: we have a good day, then we walk straight into the abattoir and buy a dead animal, consume it, and feel terrible. Why do we do this to ourselves after having an otherwise good day?