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Vegans rule the world!

And then some.

I love my fellow vegans. *mwah* XD

vegan now for one year :-) glad to be here!

I've been vegan for 32 years now. What a peaceful world we'll have when most of us, or all of us, are vegan.

32 years? wow- I'll be so happy when I can say that. I was vegetarian before i was vegan (sadly i had no abolitionists to show me the way and truly thought i wasn't hurting anything) so I haven't eaten meat in 10 years now. When I hit that long with being vegan I may want to throw a party :-) I bet you have some great recipes to add :p

I became vegan when I started the macrobiotic diet. I feel best when I've had whole grains in my meals and legumes, like green or red lentils or even Moong Dal. Some beans like Adzuki and Black beans make great soups I love to have too. When people say whole grains to me that means grains in unaltered forms(not including flours where the grains have been smashed up) . there are so many types of grains it is unbelievable. I always like to try new ones. I've tried many kinds of rice, as well as millet, amaranth, teff, barley, quinoa, wild rice, and Kasha. I find that seeds and nuts can be very nutritious too. I like to sprinkle unhulled sesame seeds, or hemp seeds on my food and if I'm getting a cold, which I rarely do, cooked lotus root seeds are a good method to help cure it right away. When more people start to eat vegan diets I bet the more they'll start to realize how pointless wars are, they'll lose their desire to fight battles, and peace will start to increase. I don't know if peace in the world is possible until then however.

From what I've read the reason we had the world wars in Europe is because there people eat so much made from flour. To make flour you have to smash up the grains to smitherines. So as a result people who eat lots of bread, cakes and pizza dough love to smash each other to smitherines. In asia they believe that eating rice is the answer to living a long healthy life. Rice and millet are their staples and they eat whole grains, therefore they don't smash each other to smitherines. I have to admit there have certainly been wars in Asia too. Somehow they seem to stay unified better than Europeans. Yugoslavia just got smashed to smtiherenes it is now main tiny countries(like grains of flour). Russia too. But China has remained unified for milleniums. It seems in Asia they see the world in a fuller way. Here we are too worried about our own tax cuts and tax returns. Nothing else seems too important. And if it is then everyone else should pay for it but not us. How we can stay unified like that I don't know. Maybe eating more whole grains will help.

Vegan diet for the win! <3

interesting viewpoint jacob! are you being funny?

hope i dont sound rude! thats not my intention at all! just very curious :o)

I may tend to be humorous from time to time, but this viewpoint that I read I was stating without any humor. I thought it was an interesting idea too when I first read it, and since even when I was a kid eating hamburgers and fish, and steak, and everything else in the normal U.S. diet, my mom always served brown rice with each dinner. Now, being macrobiotic/vegan, where eating whole grains daily is what they consider one of the most important things in eating a healthy well balanced diet, I liked that explanation I read years ago on why the worst world wars are ending up in Europe and why countries are collapsing there but not in China/asia. So no , I wasn't being humorous. this time.

ha ha. well, yeah it is interesting especially considering many of us vegans drink soymilk!! and i cant live without soymilk! i just watched this vid on facebook funnily enough, im not sure if this is a similar idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsiGR8T9LbM

Caroline, I watched the first of those many video's and yes I agree with that. The universe is so incredible, I doubt we'll ever understand it completely. It was created with such great perfection that is really beyond belief. It is amazing how in all corners of the earth great heroes came. To give us guidance and warnings of the future. Religions have been created in honor of them, but the things they warned us of have continued to happen. Fighting wars to make the whole world believe in whatever hero was on our part of the earth hasn't worked. Our diets have become amazing in many ways. Especially in how harmful they've been to most of us and made most of us. Diseases our bodies can no longer fight off, and wars we can no longer win. With the macrobiotic philosophy we are now at the center of a spiral. Things now are being happening faster than ever before. So much more happens in one year now than could even happen in an entire lifetime many centuries ago. But we've become more off balance and less part of nature and the earth than ever before. Now, being at the center of this spiral, if we humans don't cease to exist altogether on this planet, we must find many changes in the way we live and start to get the spiral to go backwards now, and get life to calm down, become more peaceful, and healthy. For we can't keep going on like we are today We must fit back into nature, and look beyond religion to find the answers. We must work on ourselves and see to what level of existence we can rise to. If we're fighting wars we're at about the lowest level. The foods we eat can have such tremendous power in creating who we are. I tried to find some things on youtube, but nothing can really replace all the books I read by Michio and Aveline Kushi and by George Ohsawa . I must confess I never took their classes. I was to busy trying to make a musical career on violin. But I sure read their books many times and have greatly looked up to their teachings. Here are a few things if you're interested:

http://www.kushiinstitute.org/html/what_is_macro.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnIcpYCwys&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri6i7bTUSwQ&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkexxLmDLfs&feature=related

Oh yes, and this is the drink I can't go without these days. It has soy milk in it http://www.bolthouse.com/html/cs_vanilla_juice_n.html

thanks jacob. some of what you said is very interesting and i will try to get a hold of those books. however i dont see anything of much value in chinese culture these days.. or in any asian country tbh. it seems to me that some of the cruelest people live in that part of the world. although i realise i could be very wrong about that. will certainly let you know if i can find those books, thanks jacob : ) xx

Greetings...I am vegan proud,and want to wish you a good weekend

One of the most valuable decision I took in my whole life! Thanks to this guy that introduce me to the environnmental harm of a meat-based diet and furthermore to the question of speciesim that helped me to shift of paradigm and accept the non-human kingdom in the moral community. Everyone deserve equal consideration according to their abilities to suffer, experience pleasure and having an interrest in living!

Hey there guys, I just want to know if anyone on here knows any docos

Like Earthlings, The Cove, Shark Water, Whale Wars That are confronting but shows the truth and cruelty that goes on.

I have promoted and tried showing Earthlings to as many people as i can, its its working and having great effect.

Any help would be Great.

If you havnt seen earthlings

www.earthlings.com/

Watch it, you all will be so happy your vegan and hopefully you will want to help

Yes absolutely PROUD

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Glad to be a member!

Seems this group is going strong. Not been on here for a while.

It really is the only way to live!

Thankful to have been vegan most of my life!

Newbies, why not touch base and compare notes ...  I've been around a long time.

A Vegan Post... The Human Scavenger

@Rachel Hickey I have found The Cove to be an excellent tool to turn ordinary people into activists and Utopians. They soon become active in our circles and become hungry to learn more. In time, they eventually watch Earthlings and become vegan. The Cove is a slower process, but there are many more people who will entertain the idea of watching it and they will watch it to the very end. With Earthlings, however, some are too squeamish.

Pleased to join you.  I have been a vegan for about 30 years (have stopped counting!).

Hello, compassionate earthlings! I feel so normal and at home here! :-)