World Peace Diet

The Culture of Denial
Choosing to be blind to what we are actually doing when we shop for, prepare, and eat food, we blind ourselves not only to the horror and suffering we are instigating and eating , but also to the beauty of the world around us.  This acquired inability to actually see and appreciate the overwhelming loveliness of the earth allows us to ravage forests and oceans and systematically destroy the natural world.  Becoming insensitive to the pain we cause daily to defenseless animals, we also become insensitive to the beauty and luminosity of the creation that we oppress and from which we disconnect at every meal... p 9


Inheriting Cruelty
By confining and killing animals for food, we have brought physical violence into our bodies and minds and disturbed the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual dimensions of our selves in deep and intractable ways.  Our meals require us to eat like predators and thus to see ourselves as such, cultivating and justifying predatory behaviors and institutions that are the antithesis of the inclusiveness and kindness that accompany spiritual growth.  Because cruelty is inescapable in confining, mutilating, and slaughtering animals for food, we have been forced from childhood to be distracted and inattentive to perpetrators of cruelty... p10

Quotes,  p 66
"The pain and suffering inflicted on children by the American diet is so brutal that if it were administered with a stick, parents would be put in jail."  ~ John McDougall, M.D.

"Human beings are not natural carnivores.  When we kill animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings who are natural herbivores". ~ William C. Roberts, M.D. and Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology.