Joy of Vegan

Sunday, April 10, 2016

IT'S NOT EASY BEING VEGAN

IT’S NOT EASY BEING VEGAN

A recent study showed the number one reason vegans return to flesh eating is social relationships. Vegans are constantly attacked and mocked by flesh eaters. Post a meme about pig cruelty on face book and most of the comments you will get back are “hmmm, bacon.” Post a meme against wolf hunting and you will be bombarded with memes of hunters displaying dead wolves along with a number showing the deer they supposedly save by killing that wolf.

Why? We are a threat to the status quo. We want to change things and make the world better. We are doing the right thing and we will make enemies. Every living person has been brainwashed by society since birth and we are trying to undo the brainwashing. People began to feel uncomfortable when they enter the taboo of undoing their brainwashing. They blame us for making them uncomfortable, when actually it is society’s conditioning that is the blame. The conditioning is so ingrained in us; vegans even start to question their own beliefs and health.

I have not eaten flesh in over 30 years. I cannot stand the sight of it. People who eat it look like zombies gorging on dead flesh to me. (In reality, they are.) Over the years I have developed very thick skin. Whenever or wherever I try to promote veganism, always some simpleton would start to attack me. Ignoring them sometimes will make them go away, however I have developed a “laugh” that I give their “saving plants” jokes that ends their mockery without saying a word.

Whenever your veganism is attacked, remember no matter how bad the attacks on you are, the attacks on helpless animals are far worse. 96 billion animals every year are abused and slaughtered. Vegans are the only ones that stand up for the voiceless. Ask yourself and your attackers “Is it too much to ask people to show kindness and compassion to animals? Is it too much to ask to live in a peaceful, clean world? “

I don’t think asking for these things are asking for too much. Every human is capable of kindness and compassion. Society has just taught us to suppress this.

Shining stars stand out, rather than conform. You know veganism is the right thing to do. Always follow your heart, not someone else’s prejudices. Hold on to your heart. True inner peace starts with being true to yourself.

Two quotes from Albert Einstein:

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”

Sunday, April 3, 2016

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JOY OF FREEDOM

Becoming vegan was the best choice I ever made. Not only have I been healthier than my omnivore peers, I have peace of mind. I know I am following my morals. I know I am doing the best I can for our planet and all its inhabitants. I know I am not causing the needless suffering and death of helpless animals. I know I am doing the best I can to leave our children and grandchildren a livable, green planet.

Breaking free of society’s programming and becoming vegan has opened my eyes and I see clearer. I see how corporations manipulate people to conform, to follow their rules, to willingly give up their freedom of choice. They do this so smoothly that you don’t even realize your choices are being made for you.

Instead of curing diseases, doctors treat symptoms with harmful drugs that are pushed by drug companies. Many of these drugs are so harmful they kill, yet people still take them willingly.

Corporations push people into buying products they don’t need with warm fuzzy ads. Buy now, pay later and you wind up in a never ending cycle of debt and slavery.

The big pharma, dairy, meat and egg industries keep pushing their products on people, even though they know their products are harmful to people and our planet. They will say “you need protein, milk builds strong bones, eggs are healthy”, whatever it takes to keep you part of the system that tortures and slaughters billions of helpless animals every year.

Stanley Milgram said in his book that most people lack the resources to reject society’s norms. I disagree with him. I think everyone has the ability to open their eyes and break free of the corporate ruled matrix. The ability just lies dormant after a lifetime of being suppressed. Animal liberation will bring true human liberation.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

LIFE AMONG NEANDERTHALS

Up until about 30,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens lived side by side among Neanderthals, so closely that interbreeding was common. Some people even today have Neanderthal DNA. No one knows for sure how Neanderthals disappeared, but one reason scientists agree on is evolution.

Some researchers have found that Neanderthals were cannibalistic. (Paleo diet) Can you imagine the horror Homo Sapiens had watching Neanderthals eat?

It is very difficult for Vegans to live among the “Neanderthals”. It is a horrifying image, watching them slurp down their burgers and bacon, without any regard to the lives they have just taken. The indifference to the suffering of others and planet destruction are very hard to take.

Evolution can take thousands of years and many generations to show up. Humans are still evolving. Could veganism be part of evolution?

Think about it. Man’s activities involving meat, dairy and egg consumption are destroying our planet. 70% of our land is going to maintaining these industries. 91% of rainforest destruction and 51%* of greenhouse gases is caused by animal agriculture. Drought, dead zones, water pollution all mainly caused by animal agriculture.

Researchers have found that Vegans’ brains are different from omnivores. We are more empathic and altruistic than omnivores. We look at all animals, humans and non-human, with empathy. Could this change in our brains be Mother Earth trying to change humans to save herself?

Vegans are growing in number. Veganism is going mainstream. Currently about 7% of the US population alone considers themselves Vegan. The number is even higher in other countries.

The number of Vegans is growing. Mother Earth is on our side. Hopefully, our numbers will grow fast enough to save her.

*51% is methane, co2, nitrous oxide emissions, plus emission from transporting, processing and rain forest destruction.