By refusing to dominate animals, we make the essential connections and open inner doorways to understanding and deconstructing the abuse of privilege in our own lives. Justice, equality, veganism, freedom, spiritual evolution, and universal compassion are inextricably connected

The message ritually injected into us by our culturally mandated meals is, at a fundamental level, the message of privilege.

As humans, we see ourselves as superior to animals, whom we view as objects to be enslaved and killed for our use and pleasure, and with this herder mentality of our special and privileged position over animals, we inevitably create other categories of privilege.

There is the macrobiotic perspective that animal foods are extremely yang in their energetic impact on the body, contracting the energy field, and that the body will then naturally and inevitably crave foods and substances that are extremely yin and expansive. These extreme yin foods are alcohol, white sugar, drugs of most every kind, tobacco, and caffeine. Grains, legumes, and vegetables tend to be neither excessively yin nor yang, but are more balanced, and so create few cravings. Eating extreme foods forces the body to gyrate continuously between the two poles, alternatively craving contracting foods like meat, cheese, eggs, and salt, and then expansive substances like sweets, coffee, alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, ad nauseam.

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‘Jesus is Magic’ Star Sarah Silverman, ‘is following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson and Scarlett Johansson by urging politicians to support a plan to promote healthy eating in schools.

The New Hampshire homegal has voiced her support for the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010, a bill that aims to provide America’s kids with nutritious lunches. The program would reward school districts with incentives for giving students more veggies. In a letter to California congressman George Miller, Silverman wrote, “I’m writing to you about something that has shocked and offended me. And trust me when I say it takes a lot to shock and offend me. Some of the foods we’re feeding kids in schools are repulsive – and that unhealthy food is feeding the childhood obesity epidemic.” Silverman is convinced cafeteria changes would reduce health-care fees: “If we help children develop healthy habits early on, they’ll have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in the future. And that would mean lower health-care costs. See? Only good comes from this.”

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http://bostonherald.com/track/star_tracks/view.bg?articleid=1264200

Star of Jesus is Magic Sarah Silverman, ‘is following in the footsteps of Woody Harrelson and Scarlett Johansson by urging politicians to support a plan to promote healthy eating in schools.

The New Hampshire homegal has voiced her support for the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010, a bill that aims to provide America’s kids with nutritious lunches. The program would reward school districts with incentives for giving students more veggies. In a letter to California congressman George Miller, Silverman wrote, “I’m writing to you about something that has shocked and offended me. And trust me when I say it takes a lot to shock and offend me. Some of the foods we’re feeding kids in schools are repulsive – and that unhealthy food is feeding the childhood obesity epidemic.” Silverman is convinced cafeteria changes would reduce health-care fees: “If we help children develop healthy habits early on, they’ll have a lower risk of obesity, heart disease and diabetes in the future. And that would mean lower health-care costs. See? Only good comes from this.”

SOURCE

http://bostonherald.com/track/star_tracks/view.bg?articleid=1264200