On the quality of my food:
I would choose carefully when choosing my words, my steps, my goals and intentions.
So why not also my food?
And when I choose what I shall eat, what will my criteria be?
Pleasure, obviously, evolved in us for a reason, which presumably indicates valuable nutrients.
But this one all by itself is tricky, for food products have been designed to fool your pleasure centers.
Many people choose food by the price they have to pay for it.
Again, tricky. Do we mean the dollar amount today? What about the cost to the environment and thus, in the long run, to us all, of degrading our shared common support system?
Do we mean the cost to our individual health in the future?
This is a wise question to start with. Then we might ask how to align this with the greater good of our neighbors, and then the healing of the already frayed fabric of nature around us. Good questions.
If one must drink dirty water for a day to survive in the desert that is one thing. Otherwise there are many choice points. We must not try to live in a food desert, unless we can create an oasis there, full of good fresh natural food. Get out of that desert!
You, a noble child of the Earth, do not deserve to scrabble around on a dry, toxic desert, (unless, of course, that is what we, the humans from Earth, turn the planet into!)
Then there is our irrational food taboo programming.
Why do humans create so many weird food taboos? My guess is that cultures overlay their rules onto the scaffolding of an instinct already hardwired in us. We evolved to remember, really well, the thing we ate that made us sick. To share this information with our tribe mates, this was codified later into food taboos.
So I propose new, rational food taboos.
How about we just don’t create and sell food that is bad for people and our environment?
“I started being vegan for my health, then it was for moral reasons, and now it’s just to annoy people” -overheard joke
Here are my food rules, for your consideration:
If it (they) would rather run, swim, or fly away, don’t eat it (them).
If I can find it organically grown, buy (support!) that kind.
Keep it in its most whole, fresh (in shell or peel, whole grain) form until I eat it.
Lots of raw food.
Try to find things to eat that are in season and grown nearby.
Eat only when hungry, and not too much.
It’s better to fast than eat poor quality food.
Better to eat less good quality food, than more poor quality food.
I try to eat food only six hours a day, at mid day, to give the body a rest.
“I think; therefore I’m vegan”- author unknown
