Människan kan förstå att det är fel att äta kött för en smakupplevelse

Hej Karoline!
Frågan är inte ställd till mig, men jag skulle gärna vilja svara.

Andra djur äter oftast och dödar för sin överlevnad. Sen får vi inte glömma växtätarna.
Sen har vi människan som kan förstå att det är fel att skada andra, att ta deras syften, att förstöra deras familj.... Människan äter för en "smakupplevelse". Det är inte rätt att påför andra djur onödigt lidande- är något som de flesta kan hålla med om - och att utsätta djur för lidande för "smak" är helt klart onödigt lidande. Mig tog det nästan 28 år tills jag förstod detta. Kulturell indoktrinering sitter starkt.
Det finns säkert individer av många andra arter som kan förstå det också.
Vi förstår andliga principer som dessa: Vi ska behandla andra som vi själva vill bli behandlade.
Om ni inte vill att någon ska utsätta er för onödigt lidande, så utsätt då inte andra för onödigt lidande.
Om vi inte vill bli tvingade att vara en del av en cirkus eller zoo eller annan fångenskap istället för att få leva ett naturligt liv i frihet, så ska vi inte tvinga andra till dessa.
Om vi vill hitta och leva vårt syfte i denna värld, så ska vi inte stjäla andras syfte.
Om vi inte vill bli utnyttjade ska vi inte utnyttja någon annan.
Om vi inte vill bli förslavade ska vi inte hålla någon annan som slavar.

Alla djur har rätt att leva i frihet och inte vara människans slavar och "produktionsenheter", att leva ett naturligt liv och inte under människans begränsningar, att leva ett tillfredställande liv

Dessa är djur som vill leva, som har ett syfte, och som har en rätt att leva med sin familj och leva hela sina liv utan att bli orsakade lidande.

Om vi inte vill skada några djur, så ska vi bli veganer (sluta äta, klä sig i och använda djurprodukter, och på andra sätt sluta göra handlingar som skadar och dödar djur), som också påverkar människor och andra djur.

Om vi är för djurs rättigheter, måste vi också vara FÖR deras rättighet att leva hela sina naturliga liv
utan att bli förtryckta, inklusive utan att bli dödade.
Rekommenderar denna föreläsning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgGnP0pWzM
Alla sorters djurprodukter, inklusive ägg och mjölk, orsakar människor och andra djur fruktansvärt lidande, förtryck, svält och död: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/03/mjolkindustrin-innehaller-sa-mycket.html

Dog fighting, animal cruelty, all non-vegan choices are causing cruelty to animals

It is terrible. Let people know that there is as much cruelty involved in all non-vegan choices, educate them, so that they can break the disconnect and go vegan. This is a good essay: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/what-michael-vick-taught-us/
And World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle (www.worldpeacediet.org) is a wonderful book to share with friends to help them to make the connection.

Vegan diet, vegan recipes

Hello Heather!

Thanks for cutting of animal products!
I would like to recommend this lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZpF1R6GUo and the book World Peace Diet (www.worldpeacediet.org ).
For recipes: There are some good information on this website: www.vegankit.com and
http://veganviking.blogspot.com/ (my wife's recipe-website; she will add more and more)
Have a wonderful day! : )

Why do we care for and love dogs, cats and some birds, but hurt and kill animals for food?

Hello Emma! That’s wonderful! : ) Well done!

If everyone cared that much for every individual on this planet – regardless of whether it is a bird, dog, cat, cow, insect or pig, we would have peace on our planet, no more starvation and no more suffering. What is sad is that our culture has taught us to show love and empathy to e.g. dogs, cats and some birds; but that it is right to eat milk, eggs and meat – which all are directly causing the suffering and death to trillions of animals each year (including more than 60 billion land animals). If we regard animals to have a moral value and rights, we shouldn’t use them and take their lives, their purpose, their families and friends.

I recommend this lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZpF1R6GUo

Campaign against fur - insults and violence is morally wrong

We don’t have the right to make any moral judgment about people’s character- just because someone is heavily indoctrinated by our culture, doesn’t mean that he/she is trying to be evil or mean or to hurt someone else.

And 99% of the world's population is hurting and killing animals daily by their non-vegan choices - including the people wearing fur. There is no distinction.

But the solution is not to insult anyone or to make moral judgments about a person’s character. The solution is a message of love, compassion and nonviolence to everyone, and to educate people out of their ignorance, which is caused by our cultural indoctrination and people's daily exclusion of animals in our meals and other choices, which they have been exposed to since their childhood.
Love and compassion atttracts people and makes people more loving and compassionate. Judging words does the opposite.

Non-vegans usually do not intend to be evil to animals, they are just heavily disconnected to the animals. By their actions they become desensitized and lose their intelligence and connection with animals. It is possible to demonstrate love and compassion towards non-vegans and at the same time not compromising veganism = love, compassion and non-violence toward all living beings. E.g. this former non-vegan who slaughtered many animals was very disconnected: http://www.farmkind.org/
I write more about it here: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/04/veganism-love-compassion-and-non.html

I challenge you all to read the fantastic book World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle, available here: www.worldpeacediet.org

Eating of animal products causes cancer, heart attacks and coronory disease

We know that consumption of animal products cause cancer and that a plant based diet is treating it:

" Women fear breast cancer above all other health problems. Fortunately, this is a preventable disease with the right diet and a healthy lifestyle. Contrary to what most people hope for, early detection by mammography causes more harm than good. Radical surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are brutal remedies universally prescribed to women with breast cancer, yet they provide little, if any, survival benefit. Hormone manipulation is of some value. However, the best, and most overlooked, approach for treating breast cancer is the McDougall Program – a plant-food based, low-fat diet with added exercise."
http://www.drmcdougall.com/med_hot_breastcancer.html

A very informative movie: http://www.adelicatebalance.com.au/
The correlation between eating animal products and cancer is backed up in the links I provided, in this: http://www.thechinastudy.com/ ; and more research.
No, everyone doesn't get cancer that eat animal products.

There is also a strong correlation between heart attacks and coronory disease and the consumption of animal products: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU
And one can get completely out of the risk-zone by eating a healthy vegan diet without processed foods and Oils.

Cause of the injustices in Bangladesh, e.g. in garment factories, and the solution to end poverty and starvation

The cause of injustices, poverty, suffering of animals and people and starvation in our world and how animal agriculture isn't sustainable:

Matt Vercoe wrote about a catastrophy in a garment factory in Bangladesh:
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/27/179251838/double-take-toons-deadly-work-places?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130427

Thanks for sharing!

It inspired me to write this, together with what I have read in the World Peace Diet, the writing of Dr. Richard Oppenlander and other sources of inspiration:

Matt wrote: ":( The price they pay so we can have cheap clothes...... why is their life worth less than a few corporate dollars? We perpetuate this by insisting on buying the cheapest possible commodities so we may have new clothes, a new tv, a new phone, a new car.... "

Furthermore we are exploiting the workers and the animals by chemicals that are destructive for the environment. These are used in the process of manufacturing garments.

This is routine in our society. This is a disease in our society. We are making choices without either knowing about the exploitation involved or ignoring the exploitation involved. We are making the choices without reflecting on the individuals hurt in the manufacture process.

Cheap clothes are bought without thinking of the misery it causes the workers in poor countries with miserable working conditions in the factories, and the humans and other animals suffering by the environmental destruction.

Meat, milk, eggs and other animal products are consumed without thinking of the animals hurt, used, exploited and killed in the process; and the poverty and starvation that it causes in the world [2]

And why do people in Bangladesh and other countries have to work in the first place in a factory with miserable working conditions, instead of growing the fruits, vegetables and legumes and being completely self-sustained?

Bangladesh has a land area of 147,570 (km )² = 147 570 * 10^6 m^2 . This is 36 892 500 acres. Their population is 158,570,535

“Only 400-480 pounds of meat can be produced by one acre of land [Of an animal that has the right to live, and shouldn’t be killed for someone’s taste], compared to 20,000 pounds of plant foods that could be grown on the same slot.” [1]

Thus, one acre of land can feed about 10 adult humans per year.

70% of the 36 892 500 acres is arable, i.e it can feed about 36 892 500 acres * 0,7 * 10 adult humans = about 252 million adults.

Thus, if the land was used in a sustainable, effective and just way in Bangladesh, and the land was divided evenly, everyone could grow their own organic, vegan food (by growing using vegan permaculture) in good working and living conditions. No one would have to work in a factory destroying the workers and destroying the environment, and thus destroying for humans and other animals.

But we are culturally indoctrinated by our culture, daily learning to disconnect and exclude animals from our circle of compassion; and this also spreads to excluding or not caring enough/losing our capacity to be able to understand or think of what our choices are causing other individuals, like the individuals in poor countries. Now instead the population of “livestock” increases; and thus the food that poor people need for their survival are in a greater extend going to animals with the tragic misfortune to be bred and raised to become someone’s dinner.  [2b]

The solution is to start caring, and stop making choices that result in the exploitation of others. To always making vegan choices that are not hurting, exploiting, excluding or inflicting violence on any other being.

Here are some resources that will help you with this: Some informative websites [4,5,6].

Foot notes:

 1. http://www.belsandia.com/comfortably-unaware.html

2. http://www.drmcdougall.com/video/expert_testimonies_oppenlander.htm

2b. http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/publications/sector_briefs/lsb_BGD.pdf

3. World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle

4.www.vegankit.com ; 5. http://www.facebook.com/abolitionistapproach; 6: http://bloganders.blogspot.com
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Comments:

Wendy Wendy I buy mostly from Goodwill, but sometimes I can't find what I need there. I understand what you're saying. I just think sometimes people forget that there are poor folks in the US, too. Unemployed (hello!), earning little above minimum wage, etc. And when you go into a store that sells fair trade clothes, or at least this is true for me, I can't afford them. I know the whole system is screwed. But not all of us who, from time to time, buy cheap clothes do it because we're unaware, you know? I'm not saying that I don't recognize still that I'm privileged. The fact that I live in the US and have access to things like computers and grad school and stuff I am very very grateful for. But maybe it's not always quite so black and white.

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Anders Branderud Wendy Wendy,
Thanks for your comment!
I am aware of this. We can only do our best!
It is great to buy at Goodwill instead of new things when possible as you are doing. Also Ebay may be an option, they sell alot of used clothes.
I didn't mean to paint a black-and-white picture that is claiming that everyone who is buying cheap new clothes is not aware of what their choices are causing/or that everyone have can afford fair trade-clothing.
I just wanted to paint a general picture of the mentality that our culture has created. Of course there are many people, like you, who are fighting against this mentality.

Have a wonderful day!!