It all started with this… what you are looking at is a vegan roll.  It’s made with collard greens that wrap a medley of ingredients that you wouldn’t imagine are lunch.  Dates, Almonds, Saffron, Celery, Lima Beans?  But when you eat this, and you are a sensate connected person, you can feel the freshness.  The life in the food.  Unlike meat, raw food is not dead.  You are not eating decaying flesh.

I know this might be graphic for you.  I apologize.  But I ask you, why should I keep up the decorum that is the mask that everyone wears?  We lie to ourselves every time we bite a piece of meat.  We justify our consumption of dead sentient beings by making arguments like “we’re carnivores”, or “it’s natural to eat meat, look at other animals”.  But I argue that you are wrong.  I believe that human beings are the most incredible creation of nature.  And the very essence of this “incredibleness” lies in our ability to contemplate.  Our ability to understand complex pathways of logic.  Our ability to appreciate and create music.  And our ability to observe, collect data and propose theories, that are held to the highest of standards for merit… the ability to be proven wrong.  Human beings are the most sophisticated creation of nature, because we fashion tools. 

The relevance of the tool in all of this is that without them, we could not eat meat.  Think about it.  How would we carve into a cow without tools?  How would we skin it?  We have no claws.  Our teeth are not developed for tearing meat.  We are not even agile enough or strong enough to even actually catch our own meat.  We set traps, and use tools like spears and guns to kill our prey and more tools to prepare it for eating, and more tools to cook it so we can digest it.

Most of the people who argue that it is okay for human beings to consume meat, also argue that we are the most advanced beings on this world, the special ones.  I wouldn’t disagree with the last part of that discussion, however being the most advanced species, also comes with great responsibility.  The ability to contemplate and to reflect allows us to examine our instinctual behaviors and improve on ourselves into a plane where most other animals cannot evolve.  The spiritual plan is one that every modern religion claims to provide it’s hungry followers.  But, where most religions compliment mankind by accentuating the creation of man in God’s image, they fail in telling their disciples that the other sentient beings on this world are also entitled to a life without pain or violation.  Whereas lions HAVE to eat meat to survive, mankind doesn’t.

We are capable of thought outside of the instinctual plane. That is what makes us human.  Why is it then, that we just absolutely resist the idea of not eating meat.  Every person that finds out that I’m vegan immediately replies with “so then, what do you eat?”  What bothers me more than their actual diet, is the common-knowledge, herd mentality that most humans suffer from.  No original thought put into the logic of their own behaviors.  Just reasons that sound official because they are attached to mass numbers of followers.

I discovered this new philosophy later in life.  Like everyone else in this world, I was born into the world of well packaged marketing, which has been in began the moment the first images were broadcast out of the television.  But what brought me to this point in my life was that crucial first step of not eating meat. It’s not that eating meat is just about animals and their feelings.  This topic is much more complex than that.  It would be an injustice to vegetarians and vegans to call it just that.  Rather, the choice to not eat meat  is also based in environmental and economic ideals.  At this point in the human story, we can no longer afford to eat meat.  Our planet is being intoxicated by the requirements to feed, manufacture and dispose of the byproducts of the meat industry.

Being conscious of your surroundings, of the beings around you, and of your role in this world is the pinnacle of being enlightened in this life.  At that point, a person cannot help but to understand why it is important not to wander through life with their eyes closed.  There are so many other things we do that are conditioned into us, and we blindly go on living.  But reason has to be the force that moves us forward.

If you start the process on yourself, the way I did 2 years ago, you will see a change in your consciousness.  Consider it from an energy perspective: all living, sentient beings harbor energy.  And the energy you are consuming in a modern farm raised cow is that of suffering, lack of normal animal social development, lack of freedom, lack of natural divine sunlight, and lack of dignity.

So I embarked on an experiment to see what would happen to my consciousness if I stopped eating meat.  At first it didn’t shift my perspective.  But then, because I am so stubborn and was convinced there must be some difference in energy transfer, I delved deeper and became vegan.  After a few months of understanding the real values of a vegan lifestyle, the ripple effect had already taken shape in my life.  Because I cannot live a life without integrity, changes took place in areas of my life that did not show themselves in the past.  My choice of transportation, my clothing, and where that head of broccoli comes from at the market? My perspective to conflict changed and I became less militant.  Reason prevailed.

I’m not saying I’m right and you need to listen to me. That would be contradictory to what I try to convey with this site.  What I am saying, is that I tried an experiment to prove to myself what I suspected to be true, and experienced the truth without conditioning playing a role.  I challenge you to do the same with your life.  In any arena, this will work to start the process of waking up and de-conditioning your mind.  I’m not sure about you, but I don’t want to have my mind susceptible to hidden marketing.  I want to control my own decisions without social themes dictating their outcomes.  To do that, I will make and effort to stay aware.  You should to.

For those of you who still are convinced that meat is important to your diet.  I again challenge you to provide the burden of evidence called experimentation.  Watch THIS documentary called King Corn. This film is also available on the iTunes Music Store for download HERE.