James Ray
James Ray
Sep 9, 2018 · 2 min read

Reasons for being a vegan

Reasons for being a vegan include:

  • Better for spiritual development, mental development and physical development.
  • Eating dead animals, particularly more highly evolved ones like cows and sheep, ingests toxins and the fear from death; and fat accumulates in our digestive tract. Generally people who eat a lot of red meat tend to be bitter, irritable, restless and cantankerous, while a vegan diet with lots of fruits and vegetables is uplifting and causes one to be more positively disposed.
  • Many more reasons are listed in Swami Sri Yukteswar’s The Holy Science: the length and composition of our digestive tract (stomach and duoduodenum), conical shape of the canines making them suitable for eating fruit but not raw meat; natural disposition / reaction to sensory stimuli from fruit vs raw meat; all while comparing to carnivores, herbivores, omnivores and fruitarians, indicate that we are most suited to eat a diet with many fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes and nuts.
  • More sustainable: less resources are consumed and there are less environmental negative impacts (e.g. no methane emissions, better soil management, more biodiversity if crops are grown in such a way e.g. mixed with windbreaker trees, legumes for nitrogen fixation, plants that attract birds and bees which can also pollinate the plants, etc.) on a life cycle basis with growing food for our direct consumption than via meat or animal products
  • I and others have a sensitivity or intolerance to milk. I get sinus issues: a runny nose.
  • It’s hard to know whether the animals for dairy and eggs and other animal products are treated ethically. There are stories e.g. from PETA of cows constantly being pregnant with udders much larger than usual due to artificial hormones, calves torn away at birth or not long after, cows standing knee high in their own fecal matter, etc. Of course even with RSPCA approved meat, the animals are still slaughtered, dying prematurely and with their evolution halted.
  • a greater yield from the plant kingdom, resulting in increased CO2 absorption (but maybe not retention in soils), more biodiversity (hopefully, particularly if done with biodiverse farming practices as mentioned above) of plants and animals that they host (although even organic farming practices may try to deter animals from accessing the plants)

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