miabella
12-05-2009, 03:51 AM
Firstly, I do hope that I am posting in the right section:)
I am just in the middle of watching "Earthlings". And I just need to share.
If you haven't seen "Earthlings", here is a brief overview that simply will not do the justice to this documentry that it deserves. It's basically about the animals and how the humans treat the animals with such cruilty for the purpose of serving humans.
If you are an on again off again vegan, this doco with surly make you see the light I'm certain as it has done for me.
Going on, Christmas is coming up. My inlaws will be staying for a couple of days. They eat what they (and I considered for years) to be an extremely healthy diet. They do not indulge in fast food, however they eat cooked with loads and of vegetable and salads and meat, cheese & dairy.
This Chrismas I was originally just going to prepare what was easiest to accomodate them as guests. This would have been, varieties of salads with a Leg of ham, prawns and oysters. This would have satisfied my family with all the salad and yeh I'm sure my husband and girls would have indulged in the meat side also.
Anyways, as I said I'm in the middle of watching "Earthling" and I've decided I just can't do it. I just can't buy the meat for them. I just really don't want it in my house. This is my house, my environment the only place where I really get to express and have my own world. Yeh I sound really crazy, I know , I'm listening to myself.
I've just reached a major mile stone on this journey now. I just don't want to accomodate others anymore. I don't want to at all push my views apon them. That is not my intention at all. I know the truth, it's my truth and I'm sick of letting my consideration of others sabotage my efforts to be raw vegan in every sence of the way.
Why is it such an issue? (If you're still reading ,you may be wondering) Because a couple of years ago my family visited with them over Christmas and at that time I had just finished the book "The ethics of what we eat?"
The inlaws commented that we weren't eating meat or any of the cooked foods and wanted to know why. So we shared all that we had learn't along with the recent book that I had finished. I gave the book to my father in law to read because he seemed curious. However after he finished it (in two days) he demanded to know why I would give him such a horribly, sad and confronting book. He raised the fact that he knew meat was necessary for the diet and that him, his wife and family were all perfectly healthy. And now he felt when he sat down to eat his meat that was vital to a healthy diet he would be confronted with the images the book had read.
I can't remember the details of our discussion. But I remember saying to my husband that I was sick of his father being so bossy and a know it all.
I was and still am so gratefull to my inlaws. as it was them that started me on my path to discovering raw vegan. Prior to this my mum brought me up on baked beans and toast. I was so sick, fatiged, lathargic and depresed as a child. And it wasn't untill I met my husband now and inlaws that these symptoms got so much better from this great diet that they shared with such enthusiasm with me.
But I didn't stop there. I continued to read and educate myself. ( A big feat for a person that did not receive a substantial education as a child due to the implecations of such an atrochious diet, such as inability to concentrate in school, lack of interest, lack of understanding, and believe me it goes on)
And my husband also continued to educate himself on diet and his parents, my inlaws, just can't accept that for some people, myself and my husband thier diet just wasn't giving us our optimal potential in health and vitality.
Sooo I have a question? Do I still serve meat on Christmas day to accomodate them and just get over myself and continue to be considerate. Orrrr, do I say no to meat. Silly question I know. The answer to me is not serve meat. However it's Christmas and we are supposed to be concentrating on consideration and getting along. But what about the big picture- the consideration of all species?
Should I just get them to bring thier own meat? It's just that this also draw attention to our diet? Ahgg!
I seariously have neuroses hey.:rolleyes: I have to just stand up for what I bellieve in. :D
If you got this far then, thankyou.:)
If you have any thoughts I would really love to hear them!
mia
I am just in the middle of watching "Earthlings". And I just need to share.
If you haven't seen "Earthlings", here is a brief overview that simply will not do the justice to this documentry that it deserves. It's basically about the animals and how the humans treat the animals with such cruilty for the purpose of serving humans.
If you are an on again off again vegan, this doco with surly make you see the light I'm certain as it has done for me.
Going on, Christmas is coming up. My inlaws will be staying for a couple of days. They eat what they (and I considered for years) to be an extremely healthy diet. They do not indulge in fast food, however they eat cooked with loads and of vegetable and salads and meat, cheese & dairy.
This Chrismas I was originally just going to prepare what was easiest to accomodate them as guests. This would have been, varieties of salads with a Leg of ham, prawns and oysters. This would have satisfied my family with all the salad and yeh I'm sure my husband and girls would have indulged in the meat side also.
Anyways, as I said I'm in the middle of watching "Earthling" and I've decided I just can't do it. I just can't buy the meat for them. I just really don't want it in my house. This is my house, my environment the only place where I really get to express and have my own world. Yeh I sound really crazy, I know , I'm listening to myself.
I've just reached a major mile stone on this journey now. I just don't want to accomodate others anymore. I don't want to at all push my views apon them. That is not my intention at all. I know the truth, it's my truth and I'm sick of letting my consideration of others sabotage my efforts to be raw vegan in every sence of the way.
Why is it such an issue? (If you're still reading ,you may be wondering) Because a couple of years ago my family visited with them over Christmas and at that time I had just finished the book "The ethics of what we eat?"
The inlaws commented that we weren't eating meat or any of the cooked foods and wanted to know why. So we shared all that we had learn't along with the recent book that I had finished. I gave the book to my father in law to read because he seemed curious. However after he finished it (in two days) he demanded to know why I would give him such a horribly, sad and confronting book. He raised the fact that he knew meat was necessary for the diet and that him, his wife and family were all perfectly healthy. And now he felt when he sat down to eat his meat that was vital to a healthy diet he would be confronted with the images the book had read.
I can't remember the details of our discussion. But I remember saying to my husband that I was sick of his father being so bossy and a know it all.
I was and still am so gratefull to my inlaws. as it was them that started me on my path to discovering raw vegan. Prior to this my mum brought me up on baked beans and toast. I was so sick, fatiged, lathargic and depresed as a child. And it wasn't untill I met my husband now and inlaws that these symptoms got so much better from this great diet that they shared with such enthusiasm with me.
But I didn't stop there. I continued to read and educate myself. ( A big feat for a person that did not receive a substantial education as a child due to the implecations of such an atrochious diet, such as inability to concentrate in school, lack of interest, lack of understanding, and believe me it goes on)
And my husband also continued to educate himself on diet and his parents, my inlaws, just can't accept that for some people, myself and my husband thier diet just wasn't giving us our optimal potential in health and vitality.
Sooo I have a question? Do I still serve meat on Christmas day to accomodate them and just get over myself and continue to be considerate. Orrrr, do I say no to meat. Silly question I know. The answer to me is not serve meat. However it's Christmas and we are supposed to be concentrating on consideration and getting along. But what about the big picture- the consideration of all species?
Should I just get them to bring thier own meat? It's just that this also draw attention to our diet? Ahgg!
I seariously have neuroses hey.:rolleyes: I have to just stand up for what I bellieve in. :D
If you got this far then, thankyou.:)
If you have any thoughts I would really love to hear them!
mia