Today’s fortune cookie papers:
- Choose to eschew animal flesh, choose to chew plant nutrients.
- Make good lifestyle choices,
- A vegan diet a day keeps an extinction event at bay.
This is another in What Gives? — a series of articles designed to promote intellectual curiosity on a range of healthful topics.
Caution: today’s post may not be suitable for all audiences.
Veganism and enlightenment go together like birds of a feather in a lush wetland — a match made in heaven. Allow me to entertain a wild guess, to estimate a ballpark figure on vegans’ good taste in matters of truth and beauty. In a word — legion.
Lisa informs me that my web search has led to Mark 5:9 — the one in which Jesus exorcises demons from a haunted soul, sending each demon into the souls of unfortunate pigs who drown themselves rather than suffer.
Veganism recognizes the right of all sentient beings to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It’s not a matter of lions laying with the lambs. No, a lion is a carnivore by nature. Canine teeth not withstanding.
Veganism argues for the inherent right of animals to live by their own device — not a life ordained and enforced by a single specie, one with a storied history of arrogance. Homo Sapien might look into the eyes of another specie and imagine stretch-wrapped plastic slabs resting on styrofoam tubs in a super-duper market — factory-farm fresh from the slaughter house. Live and let live (in a Tyson death camp perhaps).
OK Bill, you are indeed “one of those vegans.” QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM, ERGO SUM.
Legion — the number saved, not the number served.
Bill, before you go back to your bunny diet, take a goose and a gander at the highlights on Sunday’s grand buffet:
- foie gras,
- veal cutlets (let’s cut),
- bottomless meat bowls
Why do you not slaver?
Today’s reading is from Rama Ganesan:
Enlightenment and Speciesism: On the domain-specificity of awakenings
From Rama’s byline:
Vegan and former vivisectionist. BA (Oxon), PhD, MBA, Humane Educator. Mother of four, two humans, one dog and one cat. From Tucson, Cardiff and Chennai.
Highly recommended because it’s well written and inspiring.
Thanks for reading.
billziegler1947 