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Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture’s values and paradigms at the most primal levels. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the choices we make about our food are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.
Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating, what was required to get it on our plate, and what happens after it leaves our plates.
The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.
It's the most comprehensive & compassionate book i've ever read on our food choices and practices ... and the physical, emotional & spiritual effects ...
...there is an *excellent* chapter on the feminine principle ...
This wonderful and insightful book covers all sorts of ideas ... philosophical, social, political, religious, spiritual ... but ultimately is about veganism and whether it's the way humans were intended to live. I think it has much to offer, regardless of your current food choices. There are graphic descriptions of the conditions of "food" animals, as well as equally graphic descriptions of love and compassion.
What resonated so much with me, I think, is how Tuttle extends compassion to all - the slaughterhouse worker as much as the animal being slaughtered - pointing out the interconnectedness of all of us. He also draws on his training in zen buddhism and ideas based in nonviolence.
My description doesn't do this book justice, it profoundly affected my life and the way I see things in ways I can't even describe & I think the effects will be long lasting and far reaching.