This weekend, I've confronted life and death. A memorial service for a wonderful lady on Friday evening, and then a baby shower for a good friend on Saturday had me reflecting on the circle of life. Then I realized that we make choices every day to either support life or death with the foods that we eat and products we use.
Eating foods with animal products is choosing death. Maybe not for the person doing the eating, but at least for the animal that gave up its life for that meal. While the food may taste delicious, it wasn't possible without death. A plant-based diet, on the other hand, is about choosing life. It's about choosing to live a healthier, more vibrant life based on the bounty of living things grown from the ground. It's about celebrating the energy that flows through your body via these foods that don't clog your arteries or put free radicals into your cells (and that often do the opposite). It's about saving the environment, one meal at a time, because you aren't participating in consumption of animals that produce methane and are responsible for half the greenhouse gasses. And it's about saying no to the slaughter of innocent animals (198 fewer animals per year will die on average, when you switch to a vegan diet).
The difference is stark, when you think about it. And don't you want to side with healthy, life-affirming foods and personal products instead of those that come from death? I know I do.
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