. . . begins with LIFE
Opening up my shutters every morning to let the sunlight stream through the windows brings a sense of comfort, contentment, health and healing. It does wonders to elevate my spirit. As I take a deep breath in, my body instantly feels alive and awake.
This is the same feeling I experience when I open the doors of my refrigerator. The colorful rainbow of fresh fruits and vibrant vegetables creates a sense of joy, vitality and life. I know that the foods that line my shelves are health-promoting and cruelty-free; with that knowledge comes a sense of personal well being.
Healthy surroundings create healthy thoughts, and healthy thoughts inspire healthy choices. When I chose to eliminate eating animals and their products, all of my digestive issues quickly disappeared, as did the prescription medications that once masked them.
With the abundance of chronic diseases that are so prevalent in our society today, why choose foods that contribute to and exacerbate ill health? Choosing instead to consume live, fresh, colorful foods that are filled with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants and immune-boosting benefits, opens the window everyday to healthful, optimal nutrition.
For 45 years, I ate animals
without so much as a second thought.
Today I do not eat animals.
Today I define MEAT as:
Manufacturing Endless Animal Torture.
This is what it is.
New knowledge brings new thinking, and
new thinking brings new choices.
Once you know, once you understand the reality of what goes on behind those dark walls of modern-day Factory Farms,
the question of whether or not it is "ethical" to eat meat is promptly answered. Ethics stares at you as squarely in your conscience, as the innocent eyes behind the face of every animal silently pleading for their freedom and for the return of their stolen loved ones.
I think of all the animals across the world who are suffering, needlessly, just so we can eat them. I think about how we place the pleasure of our taste buds over the tragedy of their confinement and their torture ~ one meal trumps the value of one life. I think about our collective indifference and find it too hard to bear and just impossible to justify.
Thomas A. Edison wrote, "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Today my plate is filled with love and life, color and vibrancy, and with that comes a feeling of peace, an assurance of good health and the pride of compassion.
