I Just Can't Quit Cheese! Or other Dairy Products.

I Just Can't Quit Cheese!

You want to be vegan but you just CAN’T Quit Cheese?! Or Dairy in general?

Here are some thoughts that might inspire you to try.

1. Dairy is extremely, inherently, shockingly cruel. Even worse than the obvious cruelty involved in eating meat.
2. Dairy is linked to a significant amount of diseases, illnesses, ailments, allergies, and general discomfort.
3. Dairy is HIGHLY addictive. It should be considered on par with narcotics, in my opinion.
4. The Dairy industry is responsible for massive destruction of the Earth, land, air, sea, ecosystems,
5. Dairy consumption can cause obesity and hinder healthy weight levels.
6. Dairy is exceptionally, gruesomely, viciously violent.
7. VEGAN CHEESE!!!! VEGAN Milks, creams, yogurt, ice cream, butters, frosting, whipped cream!!! VEGAN OPTIONS!!
8. Getting Dairy out of your diet has tremendous benefits to you personally, to the animals, the environment, and to the vegan industry!

A few minutes of internet research and one can find many articles just like this one. Here I will get into more detail about each point made above. And I’ll add a bunch of links for you too.

1. Dairy is extremely, inherently, shockingly cruel. Even worse than eating meat.

Far from the fairytale that children and grownups are brainwashed into believing, cows are NOT animals who “just make milk”, nor do they “give milk”, nor do they produce milk “for us”. Cows, just like humans, only produce milk when they are lactating. Cows make milk, just as humans, for their babies. Therefore, in order to be “milked”, cows must first be pregnant, then give birth, for their breasts, what we call udders, to produce milk.

First, a male cow is chained, against his will, and jerked-off against his will, by some disgusting human jerk-off, who rapes and forces the male cow to ejaculate. see this ...Vegan Food Is Gross!

Then a female cow is chained to what the dairy industry calls, a “rape rack”, and someone forces their entire arm, up to their shoulder and armpit, into her anus, grabs hold of her uterus from inside her anus, then with the other arm, enters her vagina and guides a long metal “inseminating rod” all the way into her uterus, and forces in the semen.

Once a cow is pregnant, she will carry her baby slightly over nine months, a bit longer than a human pregnancy. Cows left to nature will nurse their baby for 3 years or more, and form lifelong family bonds. In the dairy industry however, their babies are stolen from them either immediately after their painful birth, or within a day or so. Almost ALL male cows are killed within days or weeks of birth because the dairy industry considers them useless. Some may be kept for breeding purposes, including sexual molestation, rape, cruelty and enslavement. Most male dairy cows are stolen from their mothers, confided to tiny constraining crates for days or weeks before being killed and becoming “veal”. Baby cow meat!

Even my brother, a die-hard meat-eater, considers veal Cruel! Yet he refuses to see that Dairy IS Veal! Even so-called organic, "humane" dairy farmers are exploiting and subjecting these animals to cruelty, slavery, and violation, and death!

If the baby is a girl, she is also stolen away. But her fate is woefully worse than her brothers. She will have to endure the same rape, torture, and painful machines pumping her milk for her short, tormented life. After 4, 5, or 6 rapings, forced pregnancies, babies stolen away, and years of being forcibly pumped by excruciating machines that cause overwhelming pain and often illness, when her body has been almost completely used up, decades before her natural lifespan, after all this agony and suffering, THEN she is ground up for hamburger meat!! In the end, dairy cows are eaten as meat!!! But only AFTER years of horrific abuse and torture!!

So I say, any person who chooses NOT to eat meat, yet continues to support and consume dairy, seriously needs to educate themselves and learn that the dairy industry is in many ways truly worse. Any person believing that eating meat is not OK, but that dairy is somehow less horrendous, needs a serious wake-up call. This is what the dairy industry has very successfully sold to the public, yet it is one of the many great lies that animal agriculture has sold.

Watch Earthlings, Cowspiracy, Google it.

Or watch this:
KIDS! Just Say No to MILK [For Kids]

https://youtu.be/GDEc87fomio?list=PLJ7ku-9VBYbG2JoHJV-gnxbrgw-kEPVGN

Or this:
10 Dairy Facts the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know

http://freefromharm.org/dairyfacts/
Kidnapped At Birth | Draw My Life

Or this: https://youtu.be/Xjbt3SV5ek8

Draw My Life 🐮 A Cow in Today's Dairy Industry
Or this: https://youtu.be/neqffXNFq38
The Price of Dairy

This: https://youtu.be/gWN_2p0VC8o

2. Dairy is linked to a significant amount of diseases, illnesses, ailments, allergies, and general discomfort.

There is so much information out there about the illnesses caused by dairy consumption. Yes, it is true that mainstream thinkers are still fooled by the billions of advertising dollars spent by the dairy industry to fool you into believing the EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH.

10 Facts About the Dairy Industry That Will Shock You

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/facts-about-the-dairy-industry-that-will-shock-you/

But a little bit of research will show you that dairy is a killer.

Health Concerns about Dairy Products

This: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products

This: Understanding the Problems with Dairy Productshttp://www.nutritionmd.org/nutrition_tips/nutrition_tips_understand_foods/dairy.html

This: Dairy: 6 Reasons You Should Avoid It at all Costs
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/06/24/dairy-6-reasons-you-should-avoid-it-at-all-costs-2/

This: T. Colin Campbell, PhD: Link Between Dairy Protein, Casein, & Cancer
https://youtu.be/xEWAf6sOGv0

This: Animal Protein -- Meat and Dairy -- Cause Cancer
https://youtu.be/yfsT-qYeqGM

This: The Scary Truth About Dairy! Dr Michael Klaper
https://youtu.be/B4ExeAFDJC4

This: Whitewash, The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health by Joseph Keon
https://youtu.be/NRimJqx392g

This: What Meat, Oil & Dairy Do To Your Heart! Dr Caldwell Esselstyn
https://youtu.be/Xg5zcy20AAI

And this: 10 Things We Wish Everyone Knew About the Meat and Dairy Industries
http://www.peta.org/living/food/10-things-wish-everyone-knew-meat-dairy-industries/

This: Gary Yourofsky: Cruelty Created by Our Dairy Addiction!
https://youtu.be/4Ltzqj_fBTk

This: The Perils of Dairy
https://youtu.be/TJvrlwnEqbs

3. Dairy is HIGHLY addictive. It should be considered on par with narcotics, in my opinion.

So many suffer from a dairy addiction, yet make it out to be a joke. But the fact that this addiction is killing the addict, as well as the animals involved, is actually heartbreaking. There are many studies that show that dairy is highly addictive. Maybe some addicts will realize this, and learn that “just quitting” can be almost impossible, without real intervention and help.

Watch this: Is Cheese Addictive? Bite Size Vegan
https://youtu.be/7zbzIt_Q7Sw

And this: Chocolate, Cheese, Meat, and Sugar -- Physically Addictive
https://youtu.be/5VWi6dXCT7I

This: What the Dairy Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - Neal Barnard MD - FULL TALK
https://youtu.be/h3c_D0s391Q

This: Can't Give Up Cheese? Here's Why... (Explained under 5 Mins.)
https://youtu.be/84RUujuZ3Qw

This: Cheese is bacterial poop!! That’s right! It’s bacterial sh!t! Dr. Walter Veith
http://lovelyopinionatedveganevolution.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheese-is-bacterial-poop-thats-right.html

This: Incredible story about milk. Is it good for you? (Walter Veith)
https://youtu.be/E-PQCCiw_Zs

4. Dairy and the Environment:

Here are some links:

Milk Life? How About Milk Destruction: The Shocking Truth About the Dairy Industry and the Environment

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/the-dairy-industry-and-the-environment/

And here: World Wild Life: Dairy Industries Impact
http://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/dairy

Here: Environmental Impact of Dairy
http://www.whitelies.org.uk/environment/environmental-impact

And here: The Triple Whopper Environmental Impact of Global Meat Production
http://science.time.com/2013/12/16/the-triple-whopper-environmental-impact-of-global-meat-production/

Here: Environmental Impact of Consuming Meat Dairy and Fish
https://youtu.be/fqnkBH0n--g

Here: You CANNOT Be a Non-Vegan Environmentalist! Bite Size Vegan
https://youtu.be/XGuduhfGSjU

I’m going to wrap up this now by finishing by talking about VEGAN CHEESE!! And all vegan alternatives for dairy products.

If you LOVE CHEESE and CANNOT GIVE IT UP!!!!!!! Then I URGE YOU to try VEGAN OPTIONS!! There are so many choices and although they are NOT HEALTHY, they are cruelty-FREE! If you can not bring yourself to quit cheese, try with all your might to find vegan alternatives that you like enough to eat. Admittedly many vegan options for dairy products contain oil, and while consuming oils does cause health problems, dairy is so brutally, offensively appalling, switching to vegan options can help people transition to veganism without having to go “cold turkey”, and without having to feel utterly (udderly) deprived.

I also believe that the more people who support vegan options for dairy (and other types of animal “products”) the more these companies can survive and thrive. The more people purchase these items, the lower the costs and the better the options will be. If you have a couple of vegan cheeses, or whatever alternative for dairy product you love, you will be that much more likely to continue on the vegan path, and that much less likely to eat dairy.

I truly believe educating oneself about the truths of the dairy industry, goes a loooooooong way when it comes to quitting dairy.

Then give yourself a lot of chances to find a vegan alternative you do love. Although I try to avoid eating too many of these products, I do occasionally enjoy them.  If you are able to read this article, that means you have internet access and most likely you are able to make online purchases. If you can not find vegan alternatives in your local stores, shop online!! Also ask at your store if they can order at least one brand so you can support these companies and vegan options.

Some of my favorites brands are:

Daiya

Field Roast ~ Chao

Tofutti

You can also make your own!! Even oil-free!

If you truly LOVE cheese and all things creamy, again, I must emphasize my personal taste of avoiding overly decadent foods, except for special occasions. AND I will also emphasize, if you are even moderately interested in cooking or making stuff, there is a whole world of vegan cheeses to learn about, to make, to create! I wouldn't take the vegan cheese entrepreneur path for myself, because my path is already dedicated toward healthful living, but it seems that this is an area that many people can and have begun to explore in creating creamy, sliced, and hard cheeses that are plant based, and pleasing in all the various ways that a poor cow's tortured and stolen mother's milk can be manipulated into.

Too many people believe that if "cheese" doesn't come from an animal's udders, if it isn't MOTHER'S MILK (?????) then it isn't "real" cheese. I find this truly absurd! The idea that a person can not live without a coagulated concoction of an enslaved animal's milk intended to grow and nurture her own baby, I find it mind boggling. I understand that many people are true speciesists, believing that an animals' species can determine it's worth, value, and place in this world. A cow is meant for human use and consumption. Every single part of it. And lots of people care nothing for cows beyond what they can take from them. The lives, wants, needs, desires of a cow may seem far insignificant to a dairy lover, too unimportant compared to your taste buds preference for their bodily functions to allow anything about THE COW to enter into the equation.

Maybe you really are taken in by the lies and marketing and promotion that dairy gets from the government and the large, powerful companies. You might believe that you NEED to drink or eat milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, or other forms of dairy, for calcium and optimal health. Maybe you just don't give a fuck about cows and you believe it's better for farmers and industries to work animals in these ways because it's profitable and business. Maybe you think there's no way out, "this will never stop", it's just a treat now and then, or, my personal favorite,

"I don't eat that much dairy."

"Yeah, sure you don't"

Just imagine all the various nuts, flours, plants, fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, legumes and beans that can be put together in a sundry of seductive and delicious ways! Just imagine all the vegan cheese to make and sell!! Gourmet cheeses, fancy cheeses, flavorful cheeses! Simple cheeses! So many kinds of other dairy alternatives!!! Unless you truly give no shits for cows, or the destruction these industries are doing to earth, to other humans, to health, and how they contribute to violence, violent ideologies, violent practices, speciesism, exploitation, slavery, torture, cruelty to innocent beings!! Unless you care nothing for any of these reasons, I think there are many reasons to consider vegan options until you can learn to eat less of these kinds of things at all. IF you ever choose to do that. And if you choose to continue decadent eating habits that are likely to cause health problems in the future if they are not seriously moderated, at least there is no need to harm other beings for addictions or habits of excess. At least you could consider trying to shift from cruelty-rich products to cruelty-free products.

"Slow motion, this side." ~ Ralph Smart

Consider Shifting from

Cruelty-rich Products

to

Cruelty-free Products

(Products of Cruelty vs. Products of Kindness)

This is part of the excitement of being vegan for me. Not cheese, but ingredients! The amount of new fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, and seeds that I have tried in the past 5 years is more extensive, multi-colored, and numerous because I have learned that there are over 70,000 edible plants! I have learned to change my tastebuds and my taste preferences.

In the first 3 years of my "going vegan" I stayed completely ignorant to the truths about dairy. That ignorance hindered my progress into true veganism because I was still clinging to the lies I have been told all my life. From well-meaning parents, media, and basically everybody everywhere. But an argument with my brother about the merits of "humane" and "Organic" meat and dairy set me on a path of determination to find out more and learn the truth about meat and dairy.

I had learned tiny bits of this and that, here and there over the years. But I finally started to try to find these so-called humane places, I emailed some farm directly, I asked questions, I researched, I watched as many videos and movies I could find from the industry themselves and other sources. I learned things.

The things I learned changed me FOREVER. Nevermore would I feel tugs inside me urning or longing for anything dairy. What I learned beheaded any lasting allure that dairy had over me.

Now, whenever I see dairy, I have to practice control not to have a severe reaction to it! It's as if I can see, hear, feel, smell and and energetically connect to the pain and suffering that went into getting that dairy into whatever form it was perverted into. Feelings anything like temptation never enter my mind. I could never be tempted by such gruesomeness! The only temptation I ever have to constrain against is the propensity to tell the dairy consumer how horrible it all is! For health! For the Animals! For Earth!

I urge you to really take the time to open your heart and mind. Yes, this is a cliché but it really fits and is well suited to this. If you just don't care, then you wouldn't have read this far. But if you really do feel terribly addicted to dairy, you doubt that it's UNhealthy, rather than required and HEALTHY, as you've probably been told and believed your whole life, if you know it is unhealthy, but you JUST LOVE IT SO FUCKIN' MUCH!!!! If you don't care about your health, or animals, or the environment, well, you probably wouldn't care much about being vegan. Caring about Non-violence is a good reason, There are so many reasons to quit. There are so many reasons to quit so many addictions that people have. People knowing that certain things are bad for them but they do it anyway. But with dairy, innocent creatures are being harmed, killed, and tortured.

Cows LOVE each other! They really DO care when their babies are stolen away!!! They don't JUST FORGET IT!! They just live their lives as slaves!!!! They have no choice!! BUT YOU DO!!

If you want to eat rich and creamy crap, please do it with gusto!!! But also PLEASE don't hurt anyone for your bad habits! Don't kill or pay other's to kill innocent, gentle creatures because YOU LOVE CHEESE! Just find a different kind of cheese to love!!! Eat cheese every single day if you want to! Just make it vegan!!

Links: Vegan Cheese is Better Than Ever: Try These 11 Brands
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/best-vegan-cheese-brands/

Your Guide to Going Dairy Free: Plant-Based Milks, Cheeses, and More By Ashley Capps

http://freefromharm.org/food-products/your-guide-to-going-dairy-free/

PETA’s Favorite Vegan Substitutes

http://www.peta.org/living/food/favorite-products/

Meat, Egg, and Dairy Alternatives

http://veganoutreach.org/subs/

Yes, I did skip a few on my list, but I think the points have been made, and covered in the many links shared. The fact is that dairy AND meat products are NOT HEALTHY! They are illness causing, environment destroying, animal cruel, and violent products. They are highly addictive and YES, it can be extremely difficult to quit them. But there are alternatives that are cruelty-free and less harmful to the planet, and possibly our bodies. If someone chooses to consume a shit ton of these products, you likely will not receive any health benefits. At the same time, if you want to eat yourself ill, at least don’t harm other beings to do so!

VEGAN OPTIONS FOR

EVERY ADDICTION!!

Try it and

TRANSITION TO VEGAN TODAY!

Plant~Based Nutrition Certification: I Did It!!

Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate, Completed August 2016, eCornell and T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

Lovely Opinionated Vegan Evolution L.O.V.E.

aka

Katherine Warsager

“Fuck Vegans!”

“Fuck Vegans!” That’s right! "Fuck vegans!" This is what someone said to me the other day. The co-owner of a shop that sells mostly sugary dairy, oil-fried concoctions, some meat, and 1 or 2 vegan-friendly items. “Fuck vegans!” Because when they DO make vegan items, they don’t sell and go to waste. When I suggested that a shop filled with dairy and meat may not be the place vegans think to go for vegan food, I was told, “Oh yeah, Fuck Vegans!” He knew I'm vegan.

This is my lovely opinionated vegan rant. l.o.v.r. ;) oh.no.u.dint.

This came not too long after a day, a week or so ago, when 4 separate women told me how much they love meat within the span of an hour!

First up was a friendly aquaintance who, while we waiting for our sons to be dismissed from school, starting sharing with me about "the great deal", she got, "on the free ham", she was just gifted.

Apparently at such-and-such supermarket, if you spend a certain amount of money, they "gift" you a "FREE" turkey or ham! Yippie! So she chose the ham and rambled on a bit about the price of ham and blah blah blah while I, wide eyed tried not to say something rude. Before the start of this conversation she knew that I'm vegan, and even said, “Oh I know, not for you, but ha ha ha ha ham…oh it's sooo expensive! My 3 year old, he's such a carnivore! Hahaha, I'm sorry, but he really is!”

Five minutes later, I was crossing the street, heading to the playground with my kids after school. A woman I don't know her or her name, was walking about 10 feet behind me. She called out to me, “Oh! So I heard you are vegetarian!”

Turning towards her with a smile I replied, “Oh, I’m vegan actually.”

We got to the park and I asked her if she wanted to know something and she began to relate to me her history. How between ages 13 to 27 she became vegetarian and then was vegan for a while and even went raw for a bit. But Oh! She lost alllll her muscles and got soooo sick and so at 27 she started eating meat again. And that it took her TEN years to HEAL THE DAMAGE TO HER BODY FROM NOT EATING MEAT and now she is 37, been eating meat for the past 10, and she WILL NEVER GO VEGAN AGAIN.

Needless to say I wasn’t smiling anymore. More like a quizzical expression and said, “Well maybe you were not getting the proper balance of nutrients. I mean, just being vegan alone will not mean you’re healthy. I felt sick when I first went vegetarian too, but I learned more about nutrition.”  I mentioned that all plants have protein and that that's where animals get their nutrition. I said that getting protein or other nutrients from animal products is actually considered a "dirty source" of these things because it comes will all the other parts that cause health problems.

She made a face and said, “Well, I lost all my muscles.”

I responded by asking her, “Well, what about vegan athletes, bodybuilders, runners, Olympians?”

She contemptuously replied, “Oh yeah, I guess it was all my fault.”

A moment before this last bit, her friend, who is a mutual acquaintance of mine, had walked up to us in mid-conversation.

She had interjected by asking me, “What about honey?”

I explained my reasons for not using honey, about it being essentially bee vomit because they eat the pollen from the flowers, then throw that up into their hive, then they beat it with their little wings until it dries up the water. Then it becomes honey for them to survive the winter, when there are no flowers aka bee food. So honey is their life's work, which is also their life survival food, nourishment, and not made for us to take from them and consume.  The unnamed woman made a surprised expression and seemed to sincerely answer, “Oh, I never thought of it that way. That it’s theirs’ and not for us.” [insert eye-soul-roll]

I added that beekeepers also abuse bees and "smoke them out" and the friend quickly said that there is a new way of doing it now, that some bee farmers are using now, that doesn't hurt them. I replied that just the act of having a bee farm is a form of harm to them.

Moments later the unnamed woman was emphatically insisting that she, "will NEVER BE VEGAN AGAIN!"

She even had said, “ Oh yeah, I went vegan for the animals and the environment and all that, but,” with derision she waved her hand away, “I gave all that up.”

My eyes rolled and my heals pivoted and I stepped away full of annoyance at being ambushed, commented, "Well, every single health organizations approves and considers plant based nutrition to be the healthy and healing."

To myself I wondered, "You gave up caring about animals and the environment?!"

Her friend followed in my direction and I found myself saying to her in a ruffled state, “That was awkward, I mean, uncomfortable! What was the point of that!?” Friend defended her saying, “Oh I think she was just curious.”

Where I explained that I never go up to people and start talking about being a vegan and I try to avoid the subject with people but that SHE asked ME about it Only to tell me that she would never be vegan again! What for?! Ugh I was annoyed.

Then friend started to tell me how she too had tried to be vegetarian and vegan but she, "felt sick", and she, "just had to eat meat and you know, everyone is different."

“Yeah, well that is not the information I have come across.”

I mentioned how I have learned that ALL animal products causes damage to our arteries. For EVERYONE! I pointed out that the studies did NOT find that SOME people get healthy eating meat and dairy while OTHERS get sick. NO. ALL people get ill from eating animal products of ANY kind and ALL people HEAL when they stop eating animal products and sugar and oils, even vegan oils. I mentioned the research I learned that shows eating any amount of animal products and oil will eventually lead to atherosclerosis, clogging and hardening of arteries with plaque formations. I told her how this happens in humans, and all other herbivores when they consume animal products, but it does NOT occur in any animal designed to eat meat. I then asked her, “If we were “meant” to eat meat, why would it make us unhealthy?” I also mentioned that eating plants for our nutrients was a "cleaner" way to get these things without adding the problematic animal products into our bodies.

Then she declared that “ghee” is some kind of magical product, despite being dairy from an animal, somehow magically only has healing properties and none of those artery clogging problems like I mentioned.

I asked her where she got this information from and she answered, “Thousands of years of research.”

That ended our conversation and I wandered away to find some peace.

That led me to another friendly face on the playground. A lovely woman, I have shared many nice conversations with. We chatted and the conversation flowed smoothly. She knew that I had been working for the acupuncturist awhile back and I shared that I wasn't anymore. We talked about how busy the kids keep you. We talked about homework and the PTA. I mentioned that I have been working on my blog in my few spare moments. Like today. My younger son had 2 days out of school yesterday and the day because he wasn't feeling well. Yesterday was an earlier closing for my older son too. And each week there is hardly a day it seems when I get several hours to myself to do much besides housework.

Like right now, I have dishes and laundry to tend to. I have food shopping and mopping to do. I need to take a shower and get dressed and I have less than 2 hours before I must go pick up the boys and have them to myself for the rest of the evening. If I want to take them to the park after school I need to get up and get my shopping done in less than an hour. Indeed there is very little time for blogging or any of the other many things I enjoy like dancing and painting!

Back to my conversation with the lovely lady, I mentioned how I have been getting into my blog and spending time when I can on it. She remarked that was great and offered that I send it to her. I emailed it to her right then and that sparked the topic that it was a vegan based blog.

I talked a bit about how much I enjoy learning about plant-based nutrition for me and my boys and that I want to learn as much as possible in order to have the optimally healthy diet. She smiled all through this exchange. Then she smilingly said, “Oh my family eats LOTS of meat!”

“Oh!” I said embarrassed. “Well thank you for listening so graciously to me go on and on!” 

I really am NOT looking to convert people who are not interested or to “push” my views on anyone. I am thrilled when anyone comes up to me or approaches me for suggestions or simply because they want information about eating a plant based diet. But I am not out to force my way on others. That is exactly why I can not imagine dating a non-vegan. Because I want harmonious love and peace and joy! Not a battle every day!

“Oh no problem, we should probably eat less meat.”, my friend said.

“Well, I am not trying to convert the whole world, I mean I would be really happy if the whole world were vegan, but, I am just happy to help people in any small way. Even if it’s only one meal or just adding more fruits and veggies to their diet.”

And while we conversed I offered her a muffin I had made. I told her about my no oil diet. I told her I made it with oats, whole wheat flour, applesauce, a mashed banana, fresh strawberries and a few vegan chocolate chips on top. She took a bite before her son grabbed the rest from her. She chewed as if eating glue, mmm, mmm, mmmm, mmm. Then with a smile she said, “Well, considering what’s in it, what’s not in it, it’s pretty good. It’s moist.”

She called over to ask her son if he liked it and in a muffled muffin filled voice he mumbled, “No!” Before gobbling up the rest in 1 minute flat.

As we walked out of the park she said, "Well, we are all different. Our bodies have different needs." I guess I was on a roll that day because instead of just agreeing I said, "I think that is a very popular idea. But the things I have read and seen has shown that although people think that, when it comes to nutrition we are not so different." I mentioned Dr. T. Colin Campbell's research and book The China Study. I smiled and we parted ways.

And I know I might have come off as the cliché "vegan". Something that day wanted me to think about meat! I know most people believe in some kind of "them or me" mentality. They believe they NEED meat and dairy to BE HEALTHY so the animal becomes something like a carrot is to me. I do not feel that I am murdering the carrot. I do not feel that I am taking it's life prematurely.

I believe that fruits and veggies ARE Life here to nourish me and my kids. And most of the human and animal life on this planet. Some animals on earth are meant to eat other animals. But the kind of human that I am evolving into doesn't need nor want that. It's simple. Eating death and despair does not feel right, healthy, good or necessary. I accept that I am a very tiny minority of people. That scares me more than makes me angry because I know that nonviolence is not inherent in everyone. I think it is when you are born, but why so many people want to and do believe that it is natural to be a killer or a death eater or a controller and "God" among animals, that can buy, breed, and sell and use and abuse and exploit to their own needs and truly believe that these animals have no other purpose or sense for themselves in this life, on this earth? But to be used and abused as human produce?

No. I will stand here and be a minority of 0.5% of the population in the USA. 1 out of 1 million people who will not eat any animal products as best of my ability and knowledge. I will aim for 100% compliance in all that I consume and purchase because that feels like the correct way to be. Ya'll motherfuckers slip that shit in EVERYWHERE POSSIBLE so one must be diligent and sincere in this peace loving attitude. I don't mind being 1 out of 320 million! I am a rare creature indeed.

By and By I researched “ghee” and I found that it indeed clogs arteries just as any other animal product and oil will do.

Here is a world where, in a little shop filled with shelf after shelf and row after row of refined carbs mixed with eggs and milk and stuffed with cheeses and creams and sugar, fried in oil and slathered with even more sugary, dairy whipped into a cream, or even topped with bacon! Where every shelf is packed with these death filled treats and sweets and the 1 item that is healthy, the 1 thing they offer doesn't sell, must be tossed in the trash, and let’s toss all vegans in the trash and say fuck them all, “FUCK VEGANS!” It's like getting pissed that the salads don’t sell at McDonalds, or the one flavor of non-dairy ice cream doesn’t sell over the 10,001 other dairy flavors! So let’s disparage ALL vegans because in a world filled with addicts, the vegan options don’t sell. And it's the vegan's fault, of course.

Better to pump the world up with sugary crap filled with animal fat and flesh and stolen mother's milk and stolen mother's menstruations curdled and whipped and coated in sugar so they can coat your arteries and then go for a run and hope you don’t have a heart attack.

Oh, but at least you sold out!

While it might sound like I am judging and begrudging another's success, for me, if it causes harm, there is no success in it, no matter how much money and accolades one might earn. (See "Right Livelihood" here)

Your shelves are empty but my heart is full. Not full of plaque! Full of kindness.

Last note, Ghee is not approved on Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s program. Nor on Dr. John Mcdougall’s. Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s research team agree it is not healthy to consume. Other research backs this up. Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Klaper.

Evaluation of the Chowdhury Meta-Analysis on the Association of Saturated Fatty Acids with Coronary Risk, Part 3

A Guide to Shamatha Meditation by Thrangu Rinpoche