If you live in the Western world, unless you’ve had your head in a hole in recent years, you’re aware of the prevalent craze for veganism. As with most popular diets, fanaticism exists on both sides of the argument, and experts have offered incredibly convincing opinions (often masked as fact) both for and against being a vegan. Today I’m going to offer an alternate viewpoint from the mainstream, in the hope that you the reader will at least open up to another stream of thought on the topic, whatever your dietary lifestyle choice may be.
The first point I wish to bring up is that our current 3D reality is one based on consumption. Humans consume, animals consume and nature consumes, it’s a fundamental aspect of this reality’s construction. Therefore, before our souls begin human lifetimes here we have agreed to live and learn within this system. What is the importance of knowing about it, you might ask? Answer: when we understand and internalize this knowledge, our propensity for judgement of others and their choices lessens greatly. Judgement is highly prevalent in current times and forms the basis of much fanaticism, largely because people have forgotten on what premises their souls agreed to enter this reality. Often times they band together like sheeple on the tail of any new craze, be it dietary or not, that hits the mainstream. At the end of the day there is no one right way, only our own individual right way, hence judgement is a waste of time and has a more damaging effect on the self than the person/people it’s directed at. So why not find ways to release it and lessen the burden on self? If it matters so greatly and affects you that your family member, friend or neighbour has decided to be vegan, pescetarian, gluten free or to eat meat, know that you’re ultimately only hurting yourself.
Another important point to speak of is the story put out by many new agers that veganism is the only way to eat when on the spiritual path. If we look at this statement through lenses that understand the premises of this reality, we realize it doesn’t hold true. It is our sovereign right within our current reality to decide what we will consume, without being judged. When we move on to alternate realities where consumption is not part of the structure, we adjust to those laws accordingly. In response to the argument of inflicting suffering on animals; Kirlian photography, showing auras and energetics, has also illustrated the suffering of vegetables when being cut off from their life source. The real issue becomes then how we consume. Indigenous men and women over the planet and throughout the ages have killed animals for food, but in an entirely opposite way to the system that is called modern day farming. We have much to learn from these indigenous people who understand that all life is sacred. Therefore when it comes time to ingest, no matter what we are eating, if we are to honour life and absorb the most from our food, it must become a sacred practice. For a quick and easy way to adopt this, try holding your hands over your food and blessing it each time before you eat. Simply centre yourself, infuse your meal with love and thank it, or you can offer the old Hawaiian prayer of forgiveness, “Ho’oponopono”. Even as you practice this small technique you’ll find your relationship to food will start to change.
What of the modern day factory farming and industrial agriculture that in particular dominate US food production, along with China, India and others, and affect the entire world? It’s about as far from sacred food production and eating practices as you can get. Enormous pesticide focused single crop farms with heavy genetic modification create vegetables that are toxic to the organic human body and without true life force so ultimately damaging to our dna. Animal production facilities use antibiotics and hormones religiously, while raising livestock and foul in horrifically abusive circumstances, resulting in a mass output of diseased creatures that aren’t close to what the healthy animal should be. The same can be said for many fish farming operations. All created to support a culture of excess, big scale production at lowered financial costs. But in reality the cost is extremely high – destruction of the soil, the heirloom plants, the animals, and excessive polluting of our environment with toxic waste. All of these elements ultimately lead to more sick and diseased humans, regardless if they’re vegan, vegetarian, pesceterian or meat eaters. Sustainable Agriculture, on the other hand, uses farming techniques that protect the environment, human communities and animal welfare. In response to the argument by the GMO/industrial agriculture promoters that sustainable agriculture cannot produce enough to feed the entire planet, experts in the sustainable farming world are resoundingly in disagreement with this! It’s rather an argument made by those who wish to control the food supply, not whose wish is to see a healthy environment, animals, and ultimately humans.
Within all of this toxic food supply and food fanaticism madness, if we’re not following what the mainstream, touted experts, or others tell us is right, how do we discover what is our right food? If you have a specific health condition or allergy that requires you to avoid certain foods, or follow a particular diet, then by all means listen to that. Health conditions aside, the simple but not so easy answer is to go within. Yes, intuition is ultimately the only true guide. For when we foster a relationship with our inner or higher selves, we find our real truth, and from this place we lovingly discover what our bodies should be ingesting, which is unique for each of us. By aligning with our inner selves or intuition, we call in the right teachers/ teachings, doctors and/or practitioners to work with and be guided by. We’re also innately drawn to foods that represent a healthier or higher frequency. Foods that are grown/raised naturally and with love, such as organic, non-GMO fruits and vegetables, holistic sustainable agriculture and sustainably caught wild fish and seafood. Whether you decide it’s best to be vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, poultry or meat eating, gluten free, grain free, dairy free, or anything in between, you will decide it in truth and in self love. Ultimately, this is the only way decisions should be made, we just need to remember.
