Respecting our own intelligence

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This is the age of relationships, between me and you, between ourselves and ideas. Relationship gives rise to a feeling of loyalty, to what we’ve been given, where we’re grateful and willing to acknowledge the best of things. If we make a friend we want to be a loyal friend. If we’ve been given intelligence we want to show loyalty to this intelligence by doing intelligent things.

By taking on a plant food regime we’re acknowledging the intelligence of it, whereas eating animal foods is exploitative and we probably feel foolish for letting those who produce it (and who don’t have our best interests at heart) to convince us it’s safe  to buy and then to winkle money out of our pockets.

Eventually by thinking for ourselves, we take notice of information concerning the everyday commodities we buy. Intelligence lets us see what is rubbish and what is not. One day we’ll look back with amazement on the days when we felt so attached to empty foodstuffs.

When we realise the poisonous effect of so much poor food going into our bodies we’ll realise what danger we’ve been in, as well as the conscience-crushing crime of it all; to do this to ourselves every day is against the integrity of our bodies and the integrity of food itself. As we realise the attractive qualities of organic fruit and veggies and plant-based foods in general, we’ll come to see them as the only food  worth eating. We’ll move away from ‘kiddy’-food and cruelly-produced food and move towards a more adult taste in food; plants will be seen as the obvious energy-food and come to be the food which is more enjoyable to eat.

The story so far: the animal thing (using them) is a habit entrenched over a long time. Now that habit needs to change. If this isn’t obvious, then vegans need to find a way of telling this story without sounding patronising or boring. We have to find a way of telling our story attractively, and if we throw a lifeline to people, we mustn’t hit them in the face with it.