Lets Get Vegucated

Doctors usually designate the lifestyles we should lead.

They tell you your limitation, your abilities, your condition, and from these construct a plan for you to follow in both nutrition and activity.

For example, a person with diabetes must limit their sugar, watch their blood levels, eat very healthy foods low in glucose and have a regular regimen of aerobic activity.

Doctors in-depth knowledge of what makes the human body function correctly, what foods have the most benefit for our health, and what rules we must follow to live a longer life, their most prominent recommendation is going vegan.

In this case, veganism would help our lives as individuals. A diet and lifestyle that allows us to soak in the most out of the nutritional value of foods and keeps us farthest away from disease. But these doctor’s orders are much wiser then they intended to be.

Credits to: Ashley Capps

Nonetheless, veganism is not a ship one can simple board.

I use to believe veganism was a strict diet of grass, dirt, and maybe even the occasional flower. I shut my mind to the idea of ever getting rid of my intentions to eat meat because in my pubescent mind I did not even consider that fruits, veggies, grains, and seeds were actual food. I saw their presence as fillers on my plate to accommodate for my inability to live on a solely meat based diet.

I, what seems centuries ago, craved the taste of umami.

The burning of flesh would excite my saliva glands much like those of a hungry lion looking over a dead carcass licking is lips with a crazed look in its eyes ready to feast. 

However, one day I came across a vital piece of information, while a watched a documentary tittled Vegucated, that I will be holding on to for the rest of my existence…

Spoiler Alert WE DO NOT NEED TO EAT MEAT TO SURVIVE!

This film was not one of the many that demonstrates traumatizing pictures and snippets of animals being violated, tortured, skinned, or anything of that sort. It explains why humans, in a psychological level still believe eating meat is necessary, how this is a primitive mindset, how we compare to carnivorous animals and much more and I was utterly enlightened.

After that moment in time, every decision I make has a conscious deliberation behind it. I do not ignorantly use or consume products that violate the rights to life every being has. To be blunt, violence, slaughter, rape and more is promoted when purchasing such goods but that is aside from the point.

Veganism advocates for a conscience people. A world where consumers at least know the facts about the products they desire, and at least feel responsible for some of the damage being done and hopefully where nothing stands in the way of making a well educated decision that trumps desire.

Humanity is virtue that resides in all of us. We simply need to tap into it. My blog expresses ways to help the incapacitated, to be the voice for the speechless, to help resolve global issues one person at a time.

In future post I will be covering several aspects of veganism in a way that would make it easy and pleasing for any person to switch to this lifestyle. In each post I will include truths behind the industries, the products themselves, facts about the animals and more.

Here I hope to impact your thinking as much as one simple fact impacted mine and I wish for old habits to die quickly and painlessly in the attempts to open our minds and hearts to a more harmonious world between man and beast.