Att vara vegan är enkelt, det är enkelt att få i sig all näring

Hej Belma,
Om vi bryr oss om djuren, om vi anser att de har ett moraliskt värde, så måste vi respektera deras rätt att leva. Det är inte rätt att ta deras liv p.g.a. bekvämlighet, smak, vana eller tradition.

Rekommenderar denna artikel om detta:
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/what-michael-vick-taught-us/

Att bli vegan är väldigt enkelt. Man får i sig all näring av att endast äta potatis + eventuellt B12-tillskott. Och det finns så mycket mat som man kan laga utav legumer, grönsaker och frukter.
Jag blev vegan i höstas när jag förstod att djuren har samma rätt att leva som mig, och att det är fel att hålla djur i fångenskap, att förstöra deras familjer- och kompisrelationer för en smakupplevelse.

Alla icke-veganska val skadar alla djur. De förevigar synen på djur som en "resurs", vilket är anledning till att hästar, kor, grisar, fiskar, fåglar, och alla andra djur, dödas av människan.

Rekommenderar denna artikel: http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/03/kott-mjolk-agg-och-att-ata-djur-skadar.html och World Peace Diet av Will Tuttle är en jättefin bok som jag rekommenderar till alla (den finns på Spotify).; och www.worldpeacediet.org
Rekommenderar denna hälsosajt: http://www.drmcdougall.com/

No joy and love of eating animal products, fear, suffering and enslavement

There can be no true joy and love when eating a meal, which resulted in fear, suffering, enslavement and death for precious and conscious beings.

"Eating is an act of connecting. Even if we eat alone, we are not alone. The food we are eating connects us with the rhythms, forces, and abundance of nature and of our universe, and with the presence of those who nurtured and gathered the foods we are eating. Fields, forests, oceans, rivers, wildlife, farmers, and grocers are all with us and become part of us as we chew and digest the food.

People we think of while we are chewing and digesting our food become a part of us also. Crossculturally, meals are events of social bonding and communion. When we eat together as a family or a community, and especially if we do it in an attitude of appreciation of the food and the opportunity of being together, we strengthen the bonds of understanding and love between us.
If we consume animal foods, all of these elements of energy and consciousness are diminished by the violence and fear inherent in the vibration of the foods we are eating. Thich Nhat Hanh says it plainly:

'When we eat an egg or a chicken, we know that the egg or chicken can also contain a lot of anger. We are eating anger, and therefore we express anger. . . . So be aware. Be careful what you eat. If you eat anger, you will become and express anger. If you eat despair, you will express despair. If you eat frustration, you will express frustration.'

Since there is such an obvious and overwhelmingly strong vibration of violence, fear, and despair in animal foods, when we prepare the food we are not likely to do so mindfully, but mechanically and quickly, in order to avoid awakening our natural sensitivity. We tend to eat these foods in a disconnected way as well. To maintain our pretense that we are oblivious to the obvious horror on our plates, we eat quickly and keep ourselves busy and distracted. Fast food and the industrialization
of eating are understandable outcomes of eating animal foods over an extended period. The aggressive busyness of our culture and our
outward-looking expansionist orientation are rooted historically and currently in our discomfort with how we treat the animals we eat and
the hardness we cultivate toward their suffering."
[Quote World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle; available for free at: http://www.worldpeacediet.org/download.htm ]

It is not hard to become vegan. It is easy.

It can be hard for a person to understand. But becoming vegan is very easy.
There are very many people turning vegan.
It is hard to understand the importance of becoming vegan in our society, it is hard to break from the cultural indoctrination since childhood, which is continously reinforced by our society, including peer pressure.
So it is wonderful that some people manage to break off from the incredible disconnection that is created by our daily non-vegan choices, and the loss of understanding, love and empathy, and harm that is caused by these choices.
I recommend this article: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/some-thoughts-on-vegan-education/
And the World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle (www.worldpeacediet.org) -- a wonderful and very enlightening book.

Please read the resources I recommend in the right menu for more information.

Vegan education vs single issue campaigns and animal welfare reform

For each hour, we can choose to either devote it to change the root problem of people's thinking, to enable them to understand that all animal exploitation, including all domestication, is wrong. It is a zero sum game.

Or we can choose to devote it to e.g. single issue campaigns, which never change people's mentatlity at its roots. They don't make people understand that all animal exploitation is wrong. Such campaigns, including efforts to trying to regulate the law through 'animal welfare reform', have been popular for the last hundreds of years - yet the animal exploitation in the world increases for every day. They have very little impact, since they don't transform people's worldview and mentatlity about animals. We can't and shouldn't force people to change their worldview; but we should spend our time dedicated to do our best effort to educate in a way, which will enable them to change their worldview. First of all we need to plant a vegan seed in order to enable them go vegan. If we plant a seed of e.g. that only fur is wrong, it will not help them to understand the necessity to go vegan.

What is starting to turn the tide, and what is causing more and more people to go vegans, is a grass root movements of people who inspires our friends to go vegan, e.g. through study groups of World Peace Diet, table conversations at work about veganism, and vegan outreach tables.

I regularly see and hear about people going vegan through vegan education (mine and others). E.g. this weekend where I was involved in a discussion in a spiritual Facebook-group about veganism, a person understood the necessity of going vegan. We have so much to learn also about how we educate our friends about veganism.
Here is more information and links about the problem of single issue-campaigns:
http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/03/single-issue-campaigns-such-as-anti-fur.html

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I would also like to share this about the efficiency of vegan education:
NZ Vegan did a street stall promoting veganism on Queen Street yesterday!

I asked how it went and the response was: "Really amazing, and such a palpable difference from when I started doing this - the common theme now is "I have been thinking about going vegan" or "I just went vegan recently" or "I am vegan yay!" or "my friend/girlfriend/cousin is vegan". It's happening! It's really happening!!!"

This is awesomely exciting news! I just got a message the other day from a nonvegan woman who said she is now committed to going vegan!

I am definitely doing my "Free vegan cupcake with a conversation" stall SOON! What are you doing to help nonhumans?
From this website: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Clare-Is-Vegan/360638237346574

If you are not vegan please read through the recommended links in the menu at the right section. Go vegan if you understand it is morally wrong to exploit, enslave, hurt and kill animals for "taste", habit or convenience. Going vegan is the only morally right thing to do: www.vegankit.com

 

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Protests have been part of our history and all cultures of the world for the longest. Protests have been part of our history and all cultures of the world for the longest. People have protested all sorts of things, from war to poverty to women’s rights and animal rights. But how useful is it to even protest? With this article, I am possibly bringing a controversial take on the effectiveness of protests but I need to make a point here.

The need to protest is something I completely understand. I did protest in the past, against wars, for immigrant rights, against fur and animal cruelty. Then I came to realize that it was a waste of my time. The reason for this is that it has little educational value.

http://thebusyvegan.xanga.com/773175137/why-protests-are-for-the-most-part-useless/

 

Veronique Perrot HC I get similar responses when i go out there with Vegan education. There are obviously always a few who yell "i love meat" to you but its just the typical defense mechanism when a truth is put in your face and you don't want to face it. On the other hand, i did demos against vivisection where cards were handed out about the bad guys of UCLA. People signed them for the poor monkeys and when back to business as usual and very likely forgot about them the next day while they were munching on their cholesterol/heart disease laden sausage pizzas.

 

Veronique Perrot HC I understand what you're saying Leigh but I am less concerned about doing "what's right" (and I don't think most protests fall into that category) versus doing what's right for the animals, as in what is the most effective and what will help them the most. I am not advocating instant gratifications, which is what protesters do when they think yelling at the institutional abusers will accomplish. That is pointless. Because it doesn't eliminate the demand, wastes time and resources which could be better spent with actual vegan education. There is a lot less instant gratification or ego boosting at talking to people about Veganism, because it is not spectacular or lacks shock value. You have no way to judge the effect in the long term.

 

 

As we sow shall we reap. Our culture's lack of love due to our harm inflicted on animals

Please.. Consider this:
Cats, dogs, cows, insects, humans. Our society wants to make a difference and then justify our use, abuse and killing for taste, pleasure or convenience, based on this difference.
However, we are all one, we are all consciousness, we all love, we all feel, we are. If we sow suffering, we reap suffering. We all have a purpose, to serve, to be a light, not to hurt or use (all animal products and the treatment of animals as commodities are hurting animals). I highly recommend World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle, www.worldpeacediet.org

We need to extend our love and compassion to everyone. Everyone wants to live. If we hurt another being, we hurt ourselves. In order to kill someone, we have to violate this individual's love and wants, we have to crush hopes, destroy a family and friend relationships; We have to sacrifice part of our inner love and compassion; we have to say to ourselves that 'I don't care' in order to take someone's purpose and life. And this has destroyed us, destroyed our society. The reason why people inflict violence and suffering upon others is the lack of empathy and love to others. If we instead would reinforce love and empathy at each meal by living a vegan lifestyle, instead of destroying parts of our love and empathy at each meal by hurting and killing someone for 'convenience' or taste, we would surely attain world peace. As long as we sow violence and wars by our eating choices, our society and culture will be absorbed in violence and wars.

We should stop hurting our family. We should treat everyone with love, compassion and nonviolence, i.e. go vegan . More information at www.vegankit.com

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We are all consciousness. How can we talk all day about love to our human sisters and brothers, but talk about our fellow pigs as some resource that can be killed for something trivial as a taste experience.

If you ever got into a loving relationship with pigs , cows and other farmed animals, you would understand how wrong it is. We wouldn't kill a companion dog, so why do we kill a pig, who is consciousness just like us, and who is our companion on this body. They are also consciousness, just another body than what us humans have.

Love and peace

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.

Veganism = Love, compassion and non-violence towards all living beings

Non-vegans usually do not intend to be mean 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: http://www.farmkind.org/

Persons whom are exploiting animals, e.g. non-vegans whom are exploiting animals by their dietary habits, suffer a lot because of what they eat and because of other ways they exploit animals. It is sad. Instead I hope their consciousness will be awakened -- and to a large extent it will be caused by vegans spreading information.

I love these words by Will Tuttle who have written the wonderful book called World Peace Diet (www.worldpeacediet.org ):
” I will say that I think, again, that the whole concept of good and evil are part of the herding culture's guilt complex and I think for the most part these concepts create a lot more heat than light. In the Buddhist tradition, for example, there is an emphasis on "skillful" versus "unskillful" behavior rather than "good" vs "evil" - in the sense that skillful behavior leads to a reduction in misery for oneself and others, and people who are "evil" are perhaps better seen as unskillful because, make no mistake, we do not have to punish anyone or send anyone anger or curse them; everything boomerangs eventually. In the herding culture that we're born into, though, only the material level is recognized because beings are systematically reduced to objects to be eaten, and we see ourselves the same way - as mere things that are born and will die; this is the greatest illusion. It's like dreaming a dream and thinking in the dream that myself, as the actor in the dream, is the true "I" - we see when we awaken that the dreaming I and its world is set within a context that it can't see but we can. Our entire culture is in a trance. The nontheistic religions seem to grasp this better than the theistic ones for some reason, as a general rule. There's a wonderful teaching from the Taoist tradition for example, but it's difficult to understand without meditation. There's a man on a lake, lying down in a boat, enjoying the beautiful sky and clouds as he looks up. Suddenly he is jolted hard as another boat rams into him! He's furious. Who could be so stupid and/or malicious to aggressively slam into him so! Jumping up, he is ready to righteously express his anger, but instead he starts laughing - the boat is empty. It was just drifting, propelled by wind and currents. This has been an enormous help for me. In many ways, it's all empty boats. The wounds people receive, even just being born in this society and ripped from one's mother and slapped around and vaccinated, already shuts people down at a deep level, and it goes from there, with the competitive and damaging education and other institutions. Having compassion for wounded people who hurt themselves and others and don't know better, driven by winds and currents they don't understand and are not aware of. As vegans, we are on a path of awakening, and though it's painful to become aware in this society, we have a lot to be grateful for and to give thanks for. I have found it's important for me to also make a discipline of sitting in silence for at least an hour a day, just listening attentively, beyond the chatter of the mind. And also to take time every day to consciously see beauty and to appreciate it and give thanks for it... and to give thanks for the precious opportunity of a human life to grow and awaken from the ignorance of believing that what I am is an object that is essentially separate. As long as any being is under this delusion of separateness, he or she will act in ways that appear "evil" - out of fear and desensitization and trying to keep away, and trying to get, and always, even if wealthy and powerful, profoundly ill-at-ease underneath it all... The vegan revolution is a revolution of love and awakening from the cultural trance-- all aspects of it.”

Djur, lidande, djur som lider har också en rätt att leva och inte bli fråntagna sitt liv och syfte

Hej Anna Edwards,
Jag citerade lite som jag har skrivit förut, och det med tårna var relaterat till ett annat inlägg där en del personer skriver som är emot djurförsök, men som tycker att det är etiskt riktigt att döda en individ (t.ex. okej att döda ett djur och äta upp detta bara för en "smakupplevelse" eller "bekvämlighet" eller annan anledning). Såg inte att det kom med.
Jag är självklart emot båda och tycker det är helt förkastligt att både klippa tårna av en individ och att döda en individ.

Jag tänker så här: De flesta individer månar mycker mer om sina liv än om tillfälligt lidande, eller fysiska begränsningar under hela livet. De allra flesta djur som är skadade fortsätter att hålla sig i liv. De vill inte dö. Om de ville dö skulle de enkelt kunna sluta att äta.
Jag hävdar att vi inte har rätt att bestämma över någons liv, att vi inte har rätten att avgöra att en individ (oavsett art) hellre vill dö än att leva med lidande. Jag skulle definitivt fortsatt vilja leva trots enormt lidande, eftersom jag tror att jag (och alla andra är här) är här för att sprida  ett budskap av kärlek, barmhärtighet och icke-våld till alla individer -människor och andra djur, och göra detta till en mer kärleksfull och fredfull värld. Livet är så oerhört viktigt trots att man lider. Livet i sig själv, och att uppfylla det syfte vi har, är mycket mer viktigt än tillfälligt lidande orsakat t.ex. av en skada.

Vill även ge en rekommendation: World Peace Diet av Will Tuttle är en jättefin bok som jag rekommenderar till alla (den finns på Spotify).

Ha det fint!