Met with Stuart. He was just politely interested in my Veganism which was pretty cool. He told me openly about some things he enjoyed to eat such as duck eggs. He seemed interested in the whole idea how I'd got into Veganism from the personal development group as an idea of compassionate living. I could reflect on how my life has deepened since I moved away and became Vegan and how I got involved with the spiritual development group.
Met with another friend in the evening. I noticed a lot more here from the Vegan angle. I could think a lot again about the hardest part about being Vegan as quoted in the other post I did. How he's a great person but really doesn't think much about eating animals at all as I never did. I thought of a friends post on Facebook about Veganism not being a cult but actually meat eating being a cult since it is what we are just told to be true from being born as Vegan then not really knowing why we are doing it but defending it.
He by no means had a go at me in any sense, we are friends and he's a respectful guy but it was interesting how eating meat is just part of who he is and the things he said as I wrote in my other post about a friends partner eating folie gras sound narcissistic when written but I know from their tone it is just a blindness and a lack of awareness. This friend is a smart guy, smarter than me but yet was not able to see or morally engage on that level.
He mentioned how on Facebook lots of my friends seemed 'quite extreme' in their views. He mentioned about an animal 'not being a person, they don't have the same developed consciousness'. I let this go and he was being fun and jokey but while meaning it and I guess missing the point that this lesser consciousness doesn't mean they don't have a right to live since they clearly want to and we don't need to eat them. Again the whole idea of Vegans being extreme is funny to me now as I think of us eating a load of stuff that grows then think of images of a slaughter house.mmmmm which one is extreme ?
Similarly he mentioned at one point certain animals 'being useful to us'. I guess again a very speciesist attitude but more ingrained as his normal. I noticed too how he mentioned about some friends being vegetarian so didn't mind vegetarian food every now and again but didn't like having more than one vegan meal in a row as he would 'start to feel weak'. Again very interesting perception. The idea that somehow we need meat and it makes us strong. Again the complete brainwashed cult mentality we are just indoctrinated with which contains no truth.
Overall a very interesting day of seeing how Veganism plays out.
Showing posts with label compassionate. Show all posts
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Sunday, 18 August 2013
Monday, 29 July 2013
How being Vegan can sometimes feel for me
--- to quote Barack Obama
'the security of America is the first thing on my mind when i wake up and the last thing when i go to bed at night'
It worries me sometimes that vegan lifestyle often feels like it encompasses that for me. I've never felt something that seems to be of such incredible and urgent importance and I want to make everyone see, or help everyone see. It's really hard sometimes because finally convincing a friend to have a meat free or getting some people to try vegetarianism does feel cool but i dont think theyll be enough.
I want the meat and dairy industry gone. I want them to be recognised as an absolute poison in our societies destroying our health on a physical and mental level. I feel they're brainwashing us and destroying a feeling of us embracing what it means to be fully human.
Great people like Gandhi, Mark Twain understand the importance of this when they say about 'as long as their are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.' 'A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals'. Why can't this just be absolute common knowledge? Why isn't such philosophy ingrained in us from us being little children. That'd make sense right? I can't believe I never felt on that level until I was 32.
My friend sent me a link about the use of a vegan diet in a prison. check it out. Interesting how the division between the different ethnic groups faded and people more grew in their rehabilitation and were less likely to reoffend. The project ultimately ceased for the pathetic reason you find here.
I've become increasingly aware since being vegan just how much power and control organisations clearly have over us. It shows how we are just controlled. I've felt so annoyed since my decision to become Vegan how its so simple and makes so much sense but yeah we're brainwashed to think otherwise. It makes me so sad too. I want to live in a world when adults and kids are taught about physical health and a vegan diet and how this is the way forward for our physical and mental health.
I want a time when we look back and what we used to do now and what an incredible error it was. A time when everything went down a path it should never have gone down. Or at the very least a time we went through which we had to go through to learn from. I want us to be taught how it is our job to protect and empower animals as being weaker than us to reach their potential and it's only through that can we grow into our fullest most compassionate selves.
'the security of America is the first thing on my mind when i wake up and the last thing when i go to bed at night'
It worries me sometimes that vegan lifestyle often feels like it encompasses that for me. I've never felt something that seems to be of such incredible and urgent importance and I want to make everyone see, or help everyone see. It's really hard sometimes because finally convincing a friend to have a meat free or getting some people to try vegetarianism does feel cool but i dont think theyll be enough.
I want the meat and dairy industry gone. I want them to be recognised as an absolute poison in our societies destroying our health on a physical and mental level. I feel they're brainwashing us and destroying a feeling of us embracing what it means to be fully human.
Great people like Gandhi, Mark Twain understand the importance of this when they say about 'as long as their are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.' 'A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals'. Why can't this just be absolute common knowledge? Why isn't such philosophy ingrained in us from us being little children. That'd make sense right? I can't believe I never felt on that level until I was 32.
My friend sent me a link about the use of a vegan diet in a prison. check it out. Interesting how the division between the different ethnic groups faded and people more grew in their rehabilitation and were less likely to reoffend. The project ultimately ceased for the pathetic reason you find here.
I've become increasingly aware since being vegan just how much power and control organisations clearly have over us. It shows how we are just controlled. I've felt so annoyed since my decision to become Vegan how its so simple and makes so much sense but yeah we're brainwashed to think otherwise. It makes me so sad too. I want to live in a world when adults and kids are taught about physical health and a vegan diet and how this is the way forward for our physical and mental health.
I want a time when we look back and what we used to do now and what an incredible error it was. A time when everything went down a path it should never have gone down. Or at the very least a time we went through which we had to go through to learn from. I want us to be taught how it is our job to protect and empower animals as being weaker than us to reach their potential and it's only through that can we grow into our fullest most compassionate selves.
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