This is a fascinating essay from Alexandra Jamieson, a former Vegan who wrote 3 books promoting veganism, and was part of the team who created the film Super Size Me... In this essay she talks about the transition from being a Vegan to including Meat and Eggs in her diet.. How she went through a full year of denial that her body was screaming for animal protein, and that she kept trying to dismiss her inner promptings by opting for Sea Minerals, Superfoods, Green Juice, etc... but nothing worked until she started eating meat again, after more than 10 years being a professional vegan.... Her thoughts and insights are fascinating: As the revealing of my secret came closer, as I began to eat openly in front of my family and talk with a few vegan friends about my evolution, I noticed something very contradictory. While my family and closest friends were completely accepting and loving towards me as I began to eat animal food products, I saw how that wasn’t always how it went with everyone. Recently the actress-comedienne Ellen Degeneres, one of the most popular vegans around, mentioned that she had been eating eggs from her neighbors “happy chickens.” The response from the vegan community was swift and harsh. Diatribes on blogs and Facebook posts against her for “lapsing and lying” we’re harsh. How is that compassionate, I thought? Compassion. This was a word I had given to the vegan community completely. But I began to realize that we need to offer compassion for all creatures, all animals, all humans, ourselves, in order to be truly compassionate. And I realized that by keeping my truth a secret, I was adding to the hostile food-culture that so many feel trapped by. The food culture that makes being overweight a crime and a weakness. The food culture that makes eating what your body needs a moral dilemma. This culture that has produced the most unhealthy, food-and-weight obsessed and ashamed generations the world has ever seen. And it’s killing us in so many ways. So I’m writing you this letter and telling you all in the hope that you and I can bring the dialogue to a new place. A place where we can begin to have more compassion for ourselves and each other. A place where we take the morality, perfectionism and rigidity out of our food. A place where we can live truly healthy lives without the fear of judgment that who we are or what we need, is wrong. A place where we can be ourselves. alexandrajamieson/im-not-vegan-anymore/
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 20:47:40 +0000
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