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Originally Posted by Bruce Paine
I feel that the world functions best in diversity, and diversity doesn't seem to proceed well when choices are limited.
So, while I applaud your decision to be a vegan and try to get more people to become vegan, I can't support your desire to make everyone vegan, because that's not the kind of world I want to live in.
As I have stated before, it's not important to me that everyone in the world become macrobiotic...I just would like everyone to know what a viable choice it is, so that at anytime, anyone or more of them might need and want it, it will be there for them.
Bruce Paine
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Bruce,
Here's my feeling. The current epidemic of cancer, other illnesses, and mental illness is to a large extent caused by diet and other influences of industrial civilization. The poisons of industry make their way into our body for the most part through the food we eat, and the foods which contain the highest concentrations of these toxins are animal fats. I think that this fact is just about ignored in society. So are the environmental costs of raising animals in commercial farming practices. As populations rise and we need to feed more people who have less money, what are we going to feed them? Barring
Soylent Green, that is?
I am not interested in "making everybody vegan" or macrobiotic; I just think that right now the world needs and wants information about how to live a healthy and satisfying life, how to understand life, and I think to a large extent they are getting the WRONG info from diet gurus like Atkins and raw foodists.
I want to help provide CORRECT information. How much more rational can I get in this desire, I wonder? I want people to know that there are toxins in animal products, that there is a natural way to prevent depression, that sugar and white flour can cause cell division and potentially turn pre-cancerous cells into cancerous ones. I want people to understand why a raw food diet can be dangerous to your physical and emotional health.
Also -- you may appreciate diversity, as do I -- but if certain elements of a diverse mix of substances were harmful, wouldn't you try to eradicate them, or at least educate people so they may avoid them if they so choose? There are a lot of things in this great world of ours that come out of a moral or rational darkness and lead to physical and environmental decay.
Perhaps my appeal contained emotion but I think a good balance of emotion and reason is natural & healthy. Who listens to a droning automaton -- how dull is history and science without a little passion or humor? As human beings with emotions we have to make healthy use of these. What is poetry but pure emotion translated through language? I understand your comment was not an attack, however.
Anyway -- Good talking to you.
Later
Mara