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I think vegans are the type of people who, first and foremost, realise that in life we don’t get ‘owt’ for
‘nowt’; we have to work at it. We climb the hill before we enjoy the downhill
run. For that to make sense we have to
realise, first, that we’ve spent our lives being duped by ‘the
providers’.
It’s not very wise to trust what the ‘providers’ tell us or to
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 ‘the authorities’, from
commercial advertisers and nutritionists to parents, teachers, priests and
doctors, all of whom have a lot to
answer for.
Those who are most involved and who profit from the success
of the Animal Industries, they guide so
many of our daily shopping decisions. What
we do, what we buy and what we then eat, is not necessarily in our own best
interests but 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, and 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. 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 advancing 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, having heavily indulged in it,
we now have a huge demand for hospital beds. The hospitals are busy patching up all the ill
patients suffering from diet-related illnesses. Hopefully, before it’s too late, this will be followed by a return to
plant-based foods. But that doesn’t mean
going out gathering wild plants. Today we
can grow 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 readily 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; it 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 has 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.
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