No getting around it, whatever one thinks, however well-done or baked the packaging, however stimulated the taste buds:
"You ARE what you eat" - where else do you get the energy to keep going? It turns into something of who and what you are and how you feel about life, about yourself.
What is the nature and quality of energy consumed and absorbed into Being? What is the energy of a broken, captive life full of misery, fear, trauma and suffering? What kind of energy is transmitted thus through the food chain and into one's Being? Can this be ignored?
And what may be the connection between one's own suffering and the suffering that one is directly/indirectly complicit in inflicting, and which one continues to support? This suffering is inflicted mercilessly, often with glee and a keen awareness of the power differential. These are universal dynamics of Oppression as have played throughout history on both Man and Beast. These issues are not separate; the 'moral' dividing line between Abbatoir or Factory-farm and the Concentration Camp or the Abusive Orphanage, is in the human mind alone!
Do you (if you do) consume and accept this 'food' energy through choice, habit, indifference, ignorance...or something else? Dairy is not excluded either, O'Veggies of this world!
I'm no better, no worse that you. You don't have to say or justify shit to me, although you can if you wish.
Maybe you raise and slaughter your food by hand, looking it in the eye as you thank it before it surrenders life? Respect to you! It is more than I do with the fruit and veg I consume. I too am complicit in food violence, regardless of eating habits.
BUT:
- Do you know what you are actually doing?
- Do you know what is actually being done?
- Can you look the phenomenon in the eye and say, "I'm ok with it, I will carry on as before"?
Can you stomach it? Ha ha, pun intended 😱 🙄. Most can't!
I can stomach it, but then I am the converted. This ain't a fight bros and sisses, it's a fucking eye-opener. Can you stomach the gory truth of what you eat, zat is ze qveschun! Can you watch the following documentaries and allow the mind to be educated without provocation, laying aside anything else but the questions "What am I doing?" and "Do I wish to continue?"
I wonder if you are offended? Title was defo click-bait 😡 .
What of the Offence to the animals making up the foodchain that sustains you? Are your 'offended' feelings even close?.........?? Will you allow yourself a glimpse into their POV? Empathy?
I'll leave you with a joke:
How can you spot a Vegan?
You don't need to! He/she will let you know within a few minutes of your first meeting.
Right, it ain't about the label anyway. Is it?
It's actually just about you! You and only you, nobody else! It's YOUR life, you are within it, there is no escape from the base fact of this!
Deep deep respect if you have made it through Dominion, it's a toughie, as is this next one, which, according to a dramatic futuristic report, is now obligatory for Hum4n1ty to watch :). This issue touches on Integrity, it is personal, it is your life and how you choose to live it. Wake up to what is going on, or don't; change is happening regardless of any and all entrenched personal positions.
Acknowledgements:
@ura-soul for his post where I came across Dominion for the first time. His post delivers a similar message to this one.
