“If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities, and we pass it on to our children, generation upon generation. Our violent actions speak so much more loudly than our peaceful words, and this is the unyielding dilemma of the herding culture we call home. The only way to solve this dilemma is to evolve cognitively [...]
Excerpted from The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle Fundamentally, cow’s milk is a substance designed by nature for baby cows, not for humans. We are the only species that drinks the milk intended for the young of other species, and we are the only species that insists on drinking milk beyond the time of [...]
“It seems there are three main reasons why people continue to eat animals in spite of the horror and tragedy this behavior generates. The first and essential reason is that eating animals is not a behavior people have ever chosen freely. It has, instead, been forced upon them, starting at an early age. People have [...]
Originally published in VegNews Magazine, May, 2009 It’s encouraging to see that the word “vegan” is finally being included in Newsweek, Time, and The Today Show, but is its meaning actually comprehended by the public? For example, a friend of mine recently told me that her grandson’s doctor had put the boy on a vegan [...]
…the taste that we prize in animal foods is like the sex we would have as rapists, for the prostitute may at least consent and profit from our cravings, but the animal is always forced against her will to be tortured and killed for our taste and questionable pleasure. When we contemplate our tastes, we [...]
The following is an excerpt from The World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle: The ramifications of veganism “are enormously subversive to the status quo. Even other subversive social theories that are rarely seen in schools of the media – such as Marxism – don’t begin to address the deeper issue we are discussing: the mentality [...]
The lesson is plain: when we harden ourselves to the suffering we inflict on animals in our own interest, and justify it by proclaiming our superiority or specialness, it is but a short and unavoidable step to justifying and inflicting the same kind of suffering on other humans in our own interest while likewise proclaiming [...]
The following is an excerpt from the World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle. Most of us don’t think of our culture as being a herding culture. Looking around, we see mainly cars, roads, suburbs, cities, and factories, and while there are enormous fields of grain, and cattle grazing in the countryside, we may not realize [...]
All the world’s major religions have their own form of the Golden Rule that teaches kindness to others as the essence of their message. They all recognize animals as sentient and vulnerable to us, and include them within the moral sphere of our behavior…It is an evolutionary imperative, a spiritual imperative, an imperative of compassion, [...]
Originally published in This Crazy, Sexy Life e-letter, June 2009 We live on the road. For fourteen years now Madeleine and I have been plying North America’s highways in our ’86 diesel pick-up that pulls our solar-powered fifth wheel “rolling home” across this beautiful land. Although we only drive about fifteen to twenty thousand miles [...]